Even More Photo Evidence of a Bigger iPhone 5 Screen (And Home Button!) [Rumors]

We're about as certain as it gets regarding something you haven't seen that the iPhone 5 will have a big 'ol screen. There's been prior evidence—but here's even more! An iPhone 5 screen protector appears in the wild.

Unearthed by Hong Kong tech site Unwired.hk, the screen film also backs up the expectedly-widened home button. The dimensional difference looks to be the same illustrated by the leaked case from earlier in the month. We'll find out for sure soon! Very, very soon. [Unwire.hk via MacRumors]

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Facebook Is Getting a Translate Button for Your International Friends [Facebook]

According to Inside Facebook, Facebook is currently testing a translate button for international users to getting around the language barrier. Facebook will provide a button to translate users' comments on the fly.

Inside Facebook reports that only a few languages, including Spanish, French, Hebrew, and Chinese, are currently supported, but that's just the start. The benefit of such a feature is pretty obvious; the people you couldn't talk to because the spoke another language can now be brought into the conversation. Cool. You potentially have the opportunity to broaden your circle of friends. But what about the privacy issue? Supposing you don't want people to translate the conversation you have with family members in your mother tongue? No word on that just yet. Hopefully Facebook gets it right. [Inside Facebook]

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Google Search Results Could Soon be Determined by +1 Button [Google]

Google told Wired that it's researching plans to use the +1 button as a crowdsourcing tool to adjust search results and battle web spam.

Google recently expanded the powers of the +1 button to include their new Google+ social networking service. Click on +1 button on a site, or in search results, and you're Google+ +1 feed is updated with the site. It's similar to Facebook's Like button.

Of course, if you remember Digg in its heyday, you'll know how quickly this sort of system can be "gamed" to push articles to the top of search results above more relevant content. Google reiterated to Wired that "There are more than 200 signals that we use to determine the rank of a website, and last year we made more than 500 improvements to the algorithm."

Still that leaves Google in an odd situation. They want to capitalize on the +1 button to promote their new social networking service and fix search results, but they have to make sure they don't piss off the justice Department with what could be construed as Google using its search engine to squash rival Facebook. Plus, the whole system could backfire on them and instead of fixing search spam, it could make it worse. [Wired]

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