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Anoox Feature Release History List

Anoox non-profit Social network & Search engine supported by a Global team of Technologists and Volunteers is always working on adding new features and services. In this page we are listing in descending date order some of the newest offerings & services. So you can stay abreast of what is happening with this amazing one of a kind non-profit Social network dedicated to empowering YOU on Main Street - Get Involved

Apr/30/2025

Hyperlinks for Public discussions:

You can now easily embed Hyperlinks

into discussions you post for Public read & comments - Premium membership required

Jan/20/2025

Anoox Instant Messenger keeps your conversations 100% Secure:

You can now Opt to have your messages self-destruct after selected time - Details - Donate

Sep/10/2024

Anoox work toward a better Web:

Thanks to due diligance of European Union, supported by related search data form Anoox and other small tech companies, EU rules Google must pay €2.4bn fine for manipulating its search results - Support Us so we can keep working for you and a better Web

Jun/27/2023

My-2nd-Brain Version 3:

AI powered Personal Assistant now integrated with our Video chat & Instant Messenger - Hub of your daily Life - Full Details

Mar/10/2023

Instant Messenger for enterprise sales & integration:

now offering our leading Instant Messenger technology for enterprise sales & integration into your SaaS - Full Details

Sep/13/2022

Instant Messenger:

for continuous free Worldwide connection & secure communication - including free Video & Voice calls Insanely Great - Full Details

Jul/14/2022

Member to Member 1 Click to Video Chat:

Members can now see who is Live and click to have instant Video chat - Details - Full Details

Log into your Anoox Social network account and go to discussions that interest you
See member who is of interest to you, whether the Author of the discussion or People who are posting replies to the discussion
Or see member who is offering something you seek, or you are offering something they seek, click on their
Lets Video Chat
button
[1]
If the member you are Video calling is online you will see a green box appear next to their "Lets Video Chat" button stating
Live
You will then be prompted to enter a brief reason as to why you want to have Video meeting with them
Once they Accept your Video chat request, you will then have instant Video chat via Anoox state of the art Web based Video chat system
Anoox Video chat service is FREE and it is 100% Web based
Since Anoox Video chat is 100% Web based you require NO App or Software to download install & continuously update
If member you are Video calling is not online or they are busy you will be able to send them a Video chat invitation for a given Date & Time
If person you have invited to Video chat accepts then Anoox Video chat system will email you both your respective URLs to click to attend this Video meeting
Anoox Video chat system will also send you both a reminder of the scheduled Video meeting the day of the meeting

[1] A Member

Lets Video Chat

button is on their Profile panel, this is the panel to the left of the screen whether you are looking at their Profile page, a discussion they have posted, a Video they are sharing, etc.

May/25/2022

Custom Video Chat:

Anoox is now offering our leading Video Chat technology for custom integration into business Sites - Full Details

Feb/24/2022

Video Chat:

You can now have Free Web based Worldwide Video Chat via your Anoox account - Simply Awesome - Details - Full Details

Video Chat Worldwide Securely, Instantly and with 100% Privacy via your Free Anoox Video Chat room
No App or Software to download, to install and continuously update, since this Video Chat is 100% Web based
High-quality Voice and Video calls right within your ubiquitous Web browser
One short URL for your Video Chat room - Pass a single short URL to all who you want to Video chat with
Via your Video Chat room you will also have access to Text chat so you can pass text messages and share URLs to make meetings smooth
Password protect your Video Chat room if you want only authorized People to be able to Video Call you
Permission require your Video Chat room so that before a person enters they are annoucned to you for your Approval
100% Private - Your Anoox Video Chat sessions are 100% Private since We don not record or store your Video meetings content in anyway

Video Chat is another Free Advertising supported service of Anoox non-profit Social network - Start My Advertising

Jan/28/2022

Discussions are now LIVE:

Questions or Discussion posted for Public view are now LIVE - greatly increasing the network effect of members - Details

When member is typing a Comment you will see an animation and notice to the effect that "Member X Typing"
When member posts a Comment then it instantly and automatically posts to your browser
When member is typing a Reply to Comments or Replies you will see an animation and notice that "Member X Typing"
When member posts a Reply then it instantly and automatically posts to your browser
Plus other ways that you are LIVE connected to other members at the same Questions or Discussion page that you are at
You do not need to do anything to be Live connected to other people on the same page, our technology does this for you automatically
This LIVE connectivity is in effect in Questions or Discussion posted for Public view and not Private or Personal view

Questions / Discussions are another Free Advertising supported service of Anoox non-profit Social network - Start My Advertising

Jan/21/2022

Add Text Chat to your Site:

You can now add your Anoox Text Chat room to your Site by just Copy Pasting few lines of HTML code - Details

You can now add your free Anoox Text Chat room to your Site by just Copy & Pasting its HTML Code to your Site
Once you add your Chat room to your Site then visitors to your Site can instantly Chat with you and other visitors to your Site
Adding a Chat room to your Site adds lots of Sticky to your Site which means people will come to your Site more often and stay longer
Studies have shown that Sites with a Chat room increase Traffic and customer retention by 20 to 30%
To add your free Text Chat room to your Site:
1. Log into your Anoox Social networking account
2. Click on "My Text Chat"
3. Click on "Generate My Chat HTML Code..."
4. Enter the details about your Site to which you are going to add your Chat room to
5. Click "Submit" to generate your Chat HTML Code
6. Click on button "Copy HTML Code" to Copy your Chat room HTML Code
7. Goto your Site and Paste this HTML Code to your home-page
8. People visiting your Site will now be able to click on your "Enter My Chat Room" button to enter your free Anoox provided Chat room
9. NOTE: as the owner of this Chat room you should continue to access it from your Anoox dashboard to be recognized as the owner of this Chat room

Chat Rooms are another Free Advertising supported service of Anoox non-profit Social network - Start My Advertising

Jan/05/2022

New Text Chat:

The New Chat system is much Easier to use, Much faster & Much more Scalable - Details - Overview

Via Text Chat you can Chat instantly & securely World Wide from any device you are all on: Desktop, Laptop or Mobile Phone
Your visitors can now access your Chat room via a single URL link that you pass to them
You can password protect your Chat room if you chose to do so
You can add your Anoox Text Chat room to your Site thus adding much sticky to your Site
Best of all Text Chat rooms are free as they are Advertising supported

Oct/25/2021

My-2nd-Brain Contact feature:

You can now add/view Contact information to your My-2nd-Brain notes in real time - Details - Overview

Anoox My-2nd-Brain has become the Hub of daily lives for Millions of People for it empowers you to remember everything as you type
From your Travel plans, to Job searches, to Home improvements, to Hotel reservations, etc. etc. etc.
And for sometime members been asking for ability to be able to view and add Contact notes to listings in real time
This feature has now been added
You can now see in your My-2nd-Brain results lists a section called
Contacted:
If you have not contacted that person/business you will see
No
in gray in front of "Contacted:"
If you have contacted them you will see
Yes
in Green in front of "Contacted:"
In that section you will also see an
Add
button in Blue which you can click on to add a Contact note for this listing
To add a Contact note then just click the "Add" button and a new window pops up where you can add a note that you have contacted them
The contact note is then instantly added to and becomes viewable for that listing
You can see your prior contact notes about a listing by holding your mouse over the contact history icon
And all this is done via SPA (Single Page Application) to make you as efficient and productive as possible

Aug/17/2021

Submit Sites from your Site:

You can now embed a simple iframe Code in your Site to Submit Sites to Anoox Search engine directly from your Site - for FREE - Details

Aug/05/2021

Submitting Sites for Indexing:

We have made it easier for you to Submit Sites from your Site to Anoox Search engine for Indexing - Details

You can now easily Submit Sites for Indexing to Anoox Search engine from your Site by following our simple API for this purpose
To do so simply POST your Form from your Site to "https://www.anoox.com/add_for_indexing_free.php"
And in the form Input have 2 Text fields named: "url" & "email"
Make sure both the url & email fields are filled before submitting them to Anoox for Indexing or the submission will fail
Make sure to inform your Site visitors to enter valid email since Anoox will send them an email link to click on before their Site is Indexed
This way you can add much sticky to your Site since your Site visitors can now Submit their Sites to Anoox directly from your Site
Inform your Site visitors as to great value this is for them since they can have their Sites Indexed and hence get free Traffic from Anoox the only non-profit Search engine & powered by Crowd wisdom

Jun/08/2021

Upgrade to Likes & Follows:

We have made enhancements to system of Like you and Follow you and resulting more Free Traffic - Details | Overview

You are now featured more broadly through out the Search engine & Social network when you are a Trusted member
You become a Trusted member when minimum of 10 members Like you or minimum of 5 Follows you
All your posts to your Anoox Book now are automatically broadcast to members who are Following you, aka your Anoox Private Network (APN)
The exception is when you post to your Anoox Book and mark the post as Personal
You can now view members who have Liked you and/or Following you
You can now get more Free Traffic as per the number of members who are Following you
Conversely now when someone posts SPAM or FAKE messages they can be penalized with loss of their Follows
Via the new system members here to do Good will be rewarded more & faster and those here to post SPAM or FAKE will be penalized and terminated faster

May/3/2021

Upgrade:

We are Upgrading some Anoox services to much more powerful and faster Servers

Apr/14/2021

Event Keywords:

You can now add Keywords to your Events for better Search engine rankings & easier Social network connections - Details

To add Keywords enter them after you select whether your Event is Real World or Online
Enter minimum of 3 Keywords for Private Events
Enter 10 or more Keywords for Public Events
Your entered Keywords will automatically bind and populate once your Event is launched
You can view your selected Keywords from your Event Dashboard screen
You can update your Keywords if you are a Premium member

March 2021

Upgrade :

We are working to Upgrade Anoox to be more powerful and faster - Details - NOTE: this May cause service outage Week of March 29th

We are working to Upgrade the Anoox main servers to be much more power powerful and faster
This Upgrade will result in processing speeds which will enable us to serve you our ever growing community faster and better
This Upgrade should enable us to Scale to handle 1000s of Concurrent users without any service slow-down
This Upgrade may result in some outage and downtime, although we hope this will be either totally avoided or kept to minutes
If during this time you notice the Site is not responding please wait few Hours and try again
If you want to Help us with this Upgrade to go smooth, please Donate generously now
If you are a Linux Super Admin (LSA) and want to help us with this please contact us to Volunteer

Jan/31/2021

Events:

With new Anoox Event you can organize Events from Personal to Business to Political for groups of 10 to 1-Million - Summary | Detail Overview

To create an Event just log into your Anoox Social networking account and click on Organize Event
You will be able to designate whether the Event is a location based Event with physical address or an Online Event
You will be able to designate whether the Event is open be to anyone or only people by invitation can Join it
If you designate an Event to be by invitation only then you will be prompted to create a Password for it
You can then provide this Event password to those whom you want to allow to join this Event
If an Event is by invitation only, then people wanting to join this Event will have to provide this password before they can join
You can designate whether an Event is one time or recurring
You will be able to enter detailed description of the Event
You will be attach Photos, Videos and Polls to your Event
You can then click to Publish (Create) your Event
Once your Event is created you can then have People read it and join it by simply passing to them the URL of your Event
People will then be able to Join your Event by just clicking the "Join This Event" button from your Event page
Once someone Joins your Event you will be informed of this new person having Joined your Event
You will be able to have free flowing discussions with People who have Joined your Event
Event owner will be able to post Notes to the Event that will be broadcast to all members of Event so you can easily inform all Event participants of changes
- To post a Note to an Event for broadcasting to Event members - log into your Anoox account
- Go to your selected Event page
- From top of the page Click on "Manage This Event" tab
- From window that pops up select "Post a Note to this Event"
- Enter your Note and select whether it should be broadcast via email to all Members
- Click to "Submit Event Note" and within 1 Hour all members will be informed of this Note
Event owner will be able to Reject any member from an Event
- To Reject a member from your Event, go to the URL of the Event - of course logged into your Anoox account
- Click on "Event Members" button which will load the members of this Event
- Hold your Mouse over member you want to Reject, a window will pop up with Reject label
- Click this button which will then instantly Reject this member from your Event
- Note once you Reject a member from your Event they will not be able to Join it again
Event owner will be able to Ban any member from posting comments to the Event for designated number of days
- To Ban a member for few days from commenting on your Event, go to the URL of the Event - of course logged into your Anoox account
- From top of the page Click on "Manage This Event" tab
- From window that pops up select "Ban Member for Few Days"
- Enter the nick-name of member you want to Ban, for how many days they are to be Banned and reason for the Ban
- If you change your mind later, from same window you can click to "Remove" them from ban list

Events is another Free Advertising supported service of Anoox non-profit Social network - Start My Advertising

Nov/04/2020

Search engine Update:

Faster more robust search results with new Search History for members - Details

You can now have special characters (&, ?, etc.) in your search Keywords
Your searches are now automatically saved under your search history as Anoox social network member
You can view your search history for 60 days as Free members & 365 days as Premium members
You can click to Bookmark your selected search items from your search history - there is NO limit to number of Sites you can Bookmark
Your search history is only accessible to you via your Anoox social network dashboard
You can see listings you have Liked for each item searched for via the search history
You can see listings you have Reported for each item searched for via the search history
You can see listings you have Reviewed for each item searched for via the search history
Advertiser Ads are now more targeted and more visible (stand out) in the Search results
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Sep/02/2020

Chat Service Update:

You can now have Anonymous Chat and more features - Details

We have made some major Updates to Anoox Chat service, as per your requests and as per the situation that Covid-19 crisis finds us all in

You can now have totally Anonymous chat World Wide, you do this by keeping Recording Off
All chat sessions now start with Recording Off, which you can opt to Turn On or keep on Off
If Chat room recording is kept on Off, then your Chat session will be totally Anonymous
So if a Government body comes to us to turn over your Chat transcript, we will not be able to do so, because we wont have any to turn over
To turn Chat recording Off or ON, click on the Hamburger button which is on lower corner of your Chat room and from the window that pops open do so
People that you now invite to your Chat room will only be able to enter your Chat room if you are already logged into your Chat room
You can now Kick someone from your Anoox Chat room, beside the Mute capability that was already there
To Kick someone from your Chat room, hold your Mouse over their nickname under the "In Room" panel and from windows that pop up click on Kick button which will instantly Kick them out
If you Kick someone from your Chat room, they will not be able to log-in again during that Chat session. But they will be able to login in a future Chat session. If you want to permanently Ban them from your Chat room, just remove them from your Contact list
To address the demands of Covid-19 crisis forcing us all to work and meet online, even more than before, you can now have more People in your Anoox Chat contact list. You can now have up to 20 as a Free member and up to 100 as Premium member
Now there is much more relevant Advertising showing to People (you and your guests) in your Chat room, based on what is being discussed. And our Chat room Bot that analyses your Chat messages to show you this more relevant Ads, does so in real time, so it does not Track you at all
{Want to Advertise to the Millions of People that are using Anoox, the only non-profit Search engine & Social network Collective, including our amazing Anonymous Chat - Go Here}

Aug/10/2020

Member Ban Feature:

You can Ban a member from posting further comments to an article (question, discussion, video, etc.) that you have posted - Details

After many Years of many Members asking for ability to Ban someone from your posted articles, we have implemented this feature. So you can now Ban a Member from posting further comments to your posted article for a certain number of Days. Once you do this, they will no longer be able to post a Comment to your article until either Ban expires or you Remove them from the Ban list. Here is how you work this:

Log into your Anoox Social Networking account
Goto your selected article, you do this by clicking on the Go-To icon (blue arrow icon) from your articles listed on your Home page or on your Book
At top of this page, under panel showing your Nick as the owner of this article, see plack with label "Admin Who Can Comment On This..."
Click on this Panel, and a new Window will pop up
In this Window you will be able to enter the Nick of who you want to Ban, Number of days to Ban them and the reason for the Ban
Below the top where you enter whom you want to Ban, is a list of all members you have already banned from posting comments
To remove someone from the Ban list for this article, just click on Remove button in front of their name
Minimum number of Days to Ban is 2, Maximum number of Days you can Ban someone is 14 as regular Member and 30 as Premium Member

NOTE:

Do not abuse this Power. That is we are gathered here on Anoox to discuss Today's issues to arrive at Best Answers, at the Truth, via a free flowing discussion. So do not Ban someone from your article if you do not agree with them. Only Ban them when they are clearly not engaged in an intelligent discussion and only after you given them WARNING that you are going to Ban them if they keep posting non-sense.

Jul/15/2020

Hyperlink Reference Materials:

When posting an article you can now include (optional) Reference Materials Hyper-linked to source URL - Details

When posting a new article, which you access via the "Publish" button, click on panel "Add Optional Reference Materials"
A new Window will slide open, where you can enter the "Subject of the referring URL" and the URL of this Web page
The Reference Materials will then be attached to the bottom of your article for readers to click on
You can include up to 5 Reference Material URLs as regular Member and up to 15 as Premium Member

Jul/01/2020

Free Traffic Exchange Update:

Process of linking to Anoox with your Anoox button to get more Free Traffic for clicks on your button made easier - Details

There is now a single unified page for creating your Anoox button for linking to Anoox - here
You can generate your Anoox button for linking to Anoox to get Free Traffic even if you are not an Anoox member
You can look up your various Sites that you have Submitted to Anoox by just entering your email and then generate your button for that Site

NOTE:

It is much better for you to create your Anoox button as Anoox member, once logged into your Anoox account, since then you will be able to track the clicks on your Anoox button on your Site and will also earn Anoox credits for each unique click on your Anoox button on your Site

May/18/2020

New Advertiser Dashboard:

New Advertiser Dashboard makes Management of Advertising more efficient, more effective & user friendly - Details

Apr/15/2020

New Advertising Targeting:

You can now target your Ads based on Country, Gender & Age too - Details

Mar/18/2020

Covid-19 Response:

In reply to Covid-19 pandemic shutdowns we have taken steps to help Small Businesses- Details

Small businesses are disproportionally negatively effected by the Covid-19 related shutdowns, so we are going to do all we can as the non-profit Search engine & Social network Collective to Help out:

We are increasing the size of articles you can Publish
We are increasing the Number of Members that are informed when you Post a Public article
We are featuring the Covid-19 related Public discussions on the Home-page for Maximum traffic
We are increasing the size of Videos you can post, as Free and Premium Members
And you can post even larger Videos up to 1 Hour long, by making a small related Donation
We are increasing the number of Notes you can post to your My-2nd-Brain
We are increasing the number of People that can be in your Chat room, from any where in the World
We are increasing the number of Polls you can create
We are lowering the opening buy to start your Advertising campaign

And we are working on Many more Steps to Help out Small businesses and Start-Ups during these difficult times, inline with our non-profit Manifesto of putting Public Service above any Profit and Share prices on Wall Street. If you can think of other ideas for Anoox to Help out, please let us know by Getting Involved

Feb/25/2020

Search Engine Update:

A new Major release of Anoox Search engine where the core is much more scalable and all aspects now SPAs - Details

Search engine core is much more scalable now, able to handle 100,000+ concurrent searches in under 5 Milli-Seconds
Search results are now updated in real time with new Site Meta Data Indexed data
Your Review of a Site is now listed in the Search results in real time via Single Page Application (SPA) upload
You can see all Reviews of the Sites in the Search results by clicking on the number of Reviews for the selected Site
Your Like of a Site is now listed in the Search results in real time via SPA upload
Your Reports of a Site is now listed in the Search results in real time via SPA upload
Search results are now Updated every 15 Minutes for the Net of Likes less Reports
Plus many more updates

Jan/15/2020

Anoox Privacy Manifesto:

Big Search engine & Social Networks are Tracking you, we use technologies that do not track you - Ever - Details

Dec/10/2019

Book Upgrade:

We have made major updates to your Anoox Book for better easier connectivity with your World - Details

Your Anoox Book, contains all your Posts - all in 1 place for you to Share easily with your World - More
Your Anoox Book URL is now simply your nick-name added to "https://www.anoox.com/?". So if your nick is "jxyz", your Book URL is: https://www.anoox.com/?jxyz

Oct/15/2019

Native Video Upload:

You can now attach Videos to your articles by directly uploading your Videos to Anoox - Details

Up until this release you could attach Videos to your articles by providing them as an iframe URL from such 3rd party sources as YouTube™, etc.
You can now attach Videos to your articles (question, discussion, videos, etc.) by directly uploading them from your device to Anoox
To do this once you are at the Publish My article page, click on the Video button icon
From the new window that pops up select "Upload Video from My Desktop"
Next click on button "Choose File" (on Chrome) or "Browse..." on FireFox etc.
Select your desired Video from your desktop and click Done
Your Video will then Upload and attach to your Question or Discussion or if you are sharing the Video the Video will be the key item to share
Please Note that a Video must be of Types: mp4 webm ogg
Max Video size to Upload for Basic Members is: 8-MB
Max Video size to Upload for Premium Members is: 80-MB
You can Upload even larger Videos by making a Donation as detailed under FAQ # 12. Keeping in mind that NO Small business Social Network is offering Native Video Upload since Video is so big in Size and hence expensive to offer for Native upload & streaming. And that is why heretofore only Big Social Media of Google™/YouTube, Facebook™, Twitter™, etc., were available for such capability

Sep/19/2019

Social Network Upgrade - Member side:

We have a New Major release of the Social Network part of Anoox - Version 11 - Details

Once logged into your Anoox account you now land on My Home Page ("Home") from where you can easily manage all your account activities
On Home page from the middle top panel you can click on to Publish a new article (question, discussion, photo, etc.)
Below that you will find the Panel which you can click on to See the latest trending discussions - to Join
Below that you will see a list of post/discussions that you are likely interested in based on who you are Following, Friend-ing & Topics of interest
You can click on the comments button for each discussion to see a list of comments to that discussion
You can click on the Thumbs up button to Like it
Click on the Share button to Copy & Paste its URL to Share it or goto that discussion for full viewing of that discussion
And you can submit your comments to that discussion right from your Home page or goto its detail page
On the left panel you can see a List of Data, Buttons and Links regarding your Anoox Social network status and activities
On the right panel you see buttons to some of the most frequent activities, such as "My Conversations" and below that Advertising
On the top most panel you will find the buttons to all the Key activities of your Anoox account, hold your Mouse over for the detail functions for each activity

Jul/15/2019

Social Network Upgrade - Public side:

We have a Total Upgrade and Major release of the Social Network part of Anoox - Version 11 - Details

This New Version 11 of Anoox Social Network is a total Upgrade to prior versions, as it sees all activities become based on SPA technologies. When you arrive at a Member article (question, discussion, photo, etc.), what they are sharing via their Anoox Social network:

In the Middle panel Top of course you will see the article, with any attached Multi-Media parts from Photos to Video
Below that are the Comments sections, where you can click to add your comments to that discussion and your comment is instantly posts via SPA technology
You can also click to Like that discussion, the person who has Posted it and people are who are replying to it, etc. and all such sharing of what you like will instantly posts via SPA technology
By posting your comment you effectively Join this group and will be informed of follow up comments by others - you can Opt out if you want
As you scroll to the bottom of the page additional comments will Auto upload via SPA technology, so now you have instant access/viewing of a discussion even if it has 1000s of comments
On the left panel you see a list of data & buttons about the Member that has posted this article
On the top you will see the Trust level of this Member plus their topic of interest
Below that you can click to Like them & Follow them, both of which activities now take effect instantly via SPA
You can click to Friend them, which will then send the Member your message to Friend and why you want to friend them
You can click to send them a secure Private Message
You can click to go to their Anoox Book, if they have not Password required their Book, and you can then see and join all their articles filterable by type
And last, you can see all their Conversations, and join them in these conversations as you like
On the right panel you will see related Ads - Please click to visit Advertiser Ads and support our Advertisers since they support this amazing network with their Advertising