January 21, 2012
Has your entire life become a frustrating chore since last week, when Google added “Personal Search”? Have you been taking your rage out on innocent squirrels and kittens, most of whom had nothing to do with Google’s decision to integrate a social network most people aren’t using with the search engine everyone is? Stop kicking cuddly creatures. There’s a simple way to stem the tide of nonsense.
August 20, 2011
Google offers quite a few options to monitor recent news and updates. We have Google Alerts, Google News and Google Blog Search. However, sadly, none of these options are perfect and so therefore the best way to monitor recent pages indexed by Google around your search term is to scan daily through “Past 24 hours” results.
July 13, 2011
One of the biggest attractions of the Internet is that we basically have instant access to all of the information in the world – but we rely rather heavily on search engines to bring that content to us. A worrying trend is emerging in both Google search results and your Facebook friend feed in that what you see is increasingly personalised to your preferences.
June 4, 2011
When using your favorite search engine, you might notice some familiar domains that pop up in the top 10 search results again and again. Chances are, you miss some variety and you want to get rid of some sites you tend to see often. If that’s the case, here are a few browser-based tools for you to filter out any domains from search results.
March 6, 2011
Last week, Google helped to advance the internet in another giant leap forward as they announced that they would now be making use of semantic meta-data in their search results – specifically in the form of a new kind of search category for recipes. Recipes?! Yes – users of the US-based Google will now notice [...]
January 29, 2011
Browser tabs have been a genius invention. I can’t live without them and I can’t imagine me opening search results in new windows (I still remember the time when I had to!). But sometimes too many tabs may become a problem as well. With plenty of tabs open you feel lost and your browser feels slow. [...]
October 23, 2010
Since the launch of Google Instant, there have been a few (both very popular and known by the few) attempts to create the similar functionality for YouTube (probably because it also has as-you-type Auto Suggest feature). These experiments are especially interesting because YouTube has a completely different search platform: it is more entertaining and visual [...]
June 10, 2010
Bing as you probably already know is a search engine offering from Microsoft. While people believed and still believe that it is difficult to topple Google as the dominant search engine, the Bing search engine has been gaining ground and offering on the edge functionality. So much so that many believe that the recent sidebar [...]
April 18, 2010
The internet is not your library and if you thought a ton of books was an overwhelming amount of information, think again. The internet doesn’t contain just a few dozen or hundred relevant sources, no, it contains millions or billions or even more. To make things worse, there is no friendly and intelligent librarian to [...]
January 19, 2010
There’s no doubt in anybody’s mind that Mozilla Firefox is one of the best browsers out there. It also has the honor of being the biggest rival to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Part of the reason behind Firefox’s success is the fact that there is an awesome team of individuals behind it, who work around the [...]
