May 17, 2013
It was only 15 years ago that the best you could do to find a person online was look for him on ICQ and hope you find his name. If you managed to do that, you were actually nowhere nearer to knowing anything about this person, except for the fact he owns an ICQ account. If you were very brave, you might have requested to add that person to your contacts, just to see what happens.
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May 16, 2013
It only takes Google's thousands of servers half a second to query approximately 50 billion indexed pages, it takes you significantly longer to scan only the first page of search results. On top of that, you are likely to digress and open irrelevant sites. Why don't you do your constantly distracted and easily overwhelmed brain a huge favor and learn how to properly construct a search?
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May 5, 2013
Producing your own video content is great. Search engines and users alike love video content. It increases user engagement - keeping visitors on your page - but moreover it's just makes your content more interesting, adding value. You're already doing this? Awesome - but do you upload them all to YouTube and just embed them on your site? Yes? Then you're doing it wrong.
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May 2, 2013
The face of search could change once again with Google's new "app activities" in Google Search. From now on, any app or website that allows its users to use Google+ sign-in, would be able to showcase what's popular with its users alongside its Google search results. Searching for Fandango, for example, will automatically show the top movies among Google users.
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April 30, 2013
Google has updated its basic Search app for iOS with Google Now integration, the company's personal digital assistant. Initially released as part of Android 4.1, Google Now is finally available for both major mobile operating systems in the form of a universal iOS app and an Android app for older devices.
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April 26, 2013
Google launched Instant Previews in 2010 to make searching easier. The instant graphic preview of a website in the results page probably did not take off as Google intended. A slightly altered version of the Google Search page does not display the Instant Preview feature. Instead, a tiny green colored arrow drops down to reveal a menu with two options – Cached and Similar.
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April 23, 2013
I pitted Google, Yahoo and Microsoft’s Bing shopping search engines against one another to determine which of the three provided the best savings on five frequently purchased tech items - an Asus Nexus tablet, a TechNet subscription, a Microsoft Surface Pro, an iPhone 5 and a Galaxy Nexus S3. Here are the results.
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April 11, 2013
Non-profit organizations have been placed front and center with their inclusion in Google's Knowledge Graph. Google has been making tiny improvements to Knowledge Graph ever since it was introduced last year, and this latest change will make it easier for you to select a non-profit organization from the many out there and decide which one to donate to. You no longer have to rummage through an organization's website to find the necessary information.
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April 10, 2013
What’s your main use for Google Image Search? Do you use it to search similar images? Or do you put it to any of the uses I listed in my advanced Google Search for images article quite a while ago? All of them are still relevant by the way. Then there are some of the more unusual uses of Google Image Search…alternatives that takes it away from the beaten path.
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March 20, 2013
Google brings two new search filters to its image search tools, making it almost impossible to not find what you're looking for. The new filters can help you find animated GIFs, which are almost as old as the Web but surprisingly popular nonetheless, as well as images with a transparent background, which are useful for various design projects and a wide variety of other purposes.
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February 28, 2013
The Google search engine is a fantastic resource for those of us who spend half our lives online, hence its inclusion in the list of the 7 wonders of the Web, but it isn't the only one of its kind. Love it or hate it, Microsoft does offer an alternative in the form of Bing, a highly capable search engine that deserves more exploring.
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February 18, 2013
If Google is the best thing since bread came sliced, the ability to search Google from your browsers’ address bar is probably the best thing since the Internet. In most browsers, you can use and set up various shortcuts and codes to make searching faster and easier, but to this day I have not seen a better way to do it than InstantFox.
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February 1, 2013
Most of you are probably thinking "you bet!" or "what’s there to KNOW?" right about now. I believe you. The truth is, if you know how to enter a query and hit enter, you know how to use Google. At least in its basic form. And if you search often, you’ve probably also encountered Google’s OneBox results once or twice before. What are these OneBox results? While you may not have heard the name before, OneBox results have been around for years now
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January 21, 2013
In terms of browsing speed and flexibility, Google Chrome has long been my favorite browser. A lot of this speed comes from the browser itself. The remaining speed is the result of its extensibility. Our best of Google Chrome extensions page barely scratches the surface. Another - and vastly underrated - way to crank up your Google Chrome browser is by using Chrome's custom search engines.
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December 22, 2012
Google frequently holds experimental field trials to test out new search features and then adds or discards them depending upon user response. The latest one is about finding your stuff faster. The field trial that’s on right now introduces you to searching your Gmail using Google.com instead of digging through the mountain of emails in your inbox.
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