November 9, 2008
Although most of us use Google on a daily basis only few people really know about various useful search operators that Google offers. There is a lot more to this tiny search field than you might think. I assume you already know that Google can be also used as calculator, currency converter and even measurement [...]
October 29, 2008
I read Saikat Basu’s article on searching Google by date and thought, I often need to do that when searching for a product review or a tutorial on a newer piece of software or technology. I’ve just used Google’s advanced date search, but there are some much better options out there. This podcast is available [...]
October 27, 2008
A job hunting friend wanted to Google details on a prospective company. A normal search yielded lots of search results but how do you get the latest up to date information? Google results quite routinely includes pages from the way distant past. There are two faces to the ‘date’ conundrum. 1. How to find the [...]
October 1, 2008
The standard search box in Safari is pretty simple. Type in your search query and hit Enter. Boom! View the results from Google. Well, that’s only if you’re quite certain about what you’re searching for. What if you’re in that zone when you’re looking for something but you aren’t really sure what it’s called or [...]
September 16, 2008
To me the Firefox search bar is an indispensable tool and one of the few features that I cannot part with. Now of course I’m talking about my modified version of it. The default version is pretty good already, but there are still a few things that can be improved. Here are five steps anyone [...]
September 2, 2008
Are you one of those internet users who is addicted to Yahoo and will only use Google if you can’t find it on Yahoo? Well, I know a quite a few people like that but after showing them all that you can do with Google, they were very quick and eager to switch. A lot [...]
September 2, 2008
Among many other things, the internet provides us with tons of information. Unfortunately, there is no friendly librarian who knows the ins and outs of the collection, understands just what we’re looking for and can guide us. Of course there are search engines, but sometimes a search engine won’t do because what we’re looking for [...]
May 30, 2008
The internet, a network spanning the globe. Today around 20% of the world’s population is connected. That’s over 1.4 billion people, a number with ten digits and it’s growing. Imagine each of these individuals would contribute only one sentence per day and one file per week. And now think again. How realistic is that? How [...]
