August 22, 2011
Searching for information about a band on Google? You may soon notice new music information associated with the artist you’re searching for, including the names of albums and songs, appearing below search results. Called Rich Snippets, this feature is meant to provide Google users with insight into the content different sites make available.
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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.
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August 11, 2011
We all know travel websites like Expedia, Kayak and Orbitz, and sometimes these big websites are more than enough. But from all those other smaller websites out there, how do we know which are good and which are less convenient? Which ones offer low fares and which ones are a waste of time?
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August 9, 2011
Most of us use the web to look for information and with the amount of information available online these days, it seems that we can find almost anything as long as we know how to search for it. The problem is, one piece of information often leads to another and following those leads often distracts us from what we were looking for in the first place.
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August 6, 2011
It's weird that Google has created its own social network without giving users the ability to search for other users' real-time updates. There's an option to search for users, but how about searching for what people are talking about on Google Plus? Now there is a way to do it.
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July 23, 2011
We have previously covered a few great browsing history tools. For example, we have shared FromWhereToWhere which structures your web history effectively as well as 4 more extensions to search and record browsing history. Today's addon is another worthy history search tool to check out.
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July 20, 2011
Do you shop at Amazon for books? Then your first destination is probably the large search field on the top. But as a long-standing Amazon book shopper, you will be glad to know that it’s not the only way to search for books. Here are more ways to browse through Amazon’s shopping stocks and search for the product you want.
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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.
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July 9, 2011
Bing has introduced typeless searching on the iPad, with the goal of reducing the amount of tapping, and copying and pasting that users of the iPad have to do to perform searches in a web browser like Mobile Safari. Does Bing accomplish its goal?
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July 6, 2011
Quickly search for the exact movie or show you're looking for, Google-style, from the comfort of your Boxee or XBMC media center. Featuring sources from countries around the world, BartsideeTV can find content to stream in your area. Its search-based interface makes finding things easier and it currently offers videos from a variety of streaming sources.
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June 25, 2011
Summer is a high traveling season for many of our readers, so we try to share more travel tools and tips here. This post is about travel inspiration - how to discover more fun places when traveling. We have already shared quite a few tools to broaden your travel outlook. This post is about finding travel inspiration by planning your journey with Twitter!
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June 18, 2011
Recently, Google added a notable feature to their browser: support for the HTML speech input API which enabled developers to allow web applications to transcribe users' voice to text. This means that site owners can now add voice recognition features to their websites. When a webpage has this feature, users can speak into their microphone and the recorded audio is then typed out.
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June 7, 2011
Quixey describes itself as a functional search engine for apps across any platform and for any use. Quixey is in beta right now. But the well designed and user-friendly website has hit the ground running with its avowed aim of helping you find just the right app for the task you had in mind.
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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.
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June 2, 2011
Find music, movies and more without the use of peer to peer (p2p) software. You just need to know where to look. For most people, Bittorrent is the definitive way to find less-than-legal files on the web. On the modern web, however, it's not necessary to use a p2p network to find the files you want; you can find them straight from your browser. It's just a matter of knowing where to look.
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