Monday ORB Roundup

A first look at Google Health.

LinkedIn Groups Search

200 Twitter Tools

Higher Density Development: Myth and Fact (PDF)

Anonymity on the Internet? No.

Google said Monday that it complied with Indian legal process when it gave police information about a user of its Orkut social networking site. With the IP (Internet Protocol) address of a person who had allegedly posted vulgar content about Sonia Gandhi, one of India's top political leaders, on Orkut, police in Pune were able to arrest a suspect.

PCWorld: Google Defends Helping Police Nab Defamer

More on this topic from TechCrunch.

Search tips for all you Gmail users.

Search Tip -

Google Image can tell the difference between an image with a face in it and one that doesn’t. It can also display only images that appeared in the news.

The feature isn’t an official search term yet, so you need to hack the URL to make it work.

Example, enter the word iris in the search box. You will see a lot of images of the flower. Now go the address bar and type &imgtype=face to the end of the URL. Go to that URL and you’ll now see photographs of people instead of the flower.

You can also limit your search to only images news images. For example, try a search for The Shins. You will get a lot of photographs for the band. Now append &imgtype=news to the search URL and you will have a much smaller result.

Found on Lifehacker.

Google Transit is now fully integrated into Google Maps. Users are now given the option to select "Take Public Transit" as an alternative to driving instructions. Not all public transportation networks are included. In fact, the current offering is mainly geared to the West Coast, including Portland.

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NYT article on how some major research libraries are saying no to Google but yes to Open Content Alliance.