Bring Back the Google Search Sidebar With These Tools
Change is the only constant. This is becoming even more true as we rely on web apps that can change out from under us. One day you’re using a familiar interface with features you rely on, and the next day you open your browser to realize that the interface you rely on is gone. We’re naturally wired to dislike change – even positive change – but not all change is for the best.
More Free Google Search Tools You Might Not Be Using So Much
Each filter and operator on Google Search is designed to be a crosshair on a scope mounted on that ‘canon’. You need to use them appropriately for the relevant search result. So, I am advancing this article with the assumption that you don’t use most of the search tools as much as you should every day. Let’s explore a few neat search tools which we miss in the flurry of typing in the queries.
Is Bing Better Than Google Search? We Find Out
By many accounts, Bing is really giving Google a run for its money. On November 6th of this year, the Guardian reported that Google's search share in the UK dipped under 90% as Bing's share continued to climb. Now, I've always been one to cheer for the underdog, mostly because I never like the see the formation of a monopoly. However, is this really about real competition? Does Bing really have what it takes to go head-to-head and win against Google?
5 Advanced Gmail Search Operators You Should Know
Gmail is an ingenious webmail client with many awesome features. Being a Google service, one of its strengths obviously is Search. And this is exactly how Google revolutionized email. In Gmail you don't really have to worry about filing or sorting emails because you an always find them in a matter of seconds using the Search. While you will easily get to most emails with a plain keyword search, it does help to know some advanced search operators.
How To Copy Crap-Free URLs From Google's Search Results
Stop getting a garbled mess every time you try to copy a link from Google search results. Install one simple plugin or userscript and solve this problem entirely. Google uses these far longer than necessary URLs to help track who is clicking which searches, which in turn helps make search results better.
Optimize Google Search Results For Your Name With BrandYourself
The Internet is an unforgiving place - it never forgets. Whatever gets posted online, whether it's a careless statement or a funny picture, it could very well backfire and hurt you in the future. It's even worse when you share a name with a reckless individual who ends up ruining your reputation as much as their own. This is what happened to Pete, one of the co-founders of BrandYourself.
12 Alternate Looks To Your Google Search Homepage
Google is Google, and we know it by that all-white search page and multicolored logo. Isn't it a little bit bright and harsh on the eyes, though? In this post, I'm going to try to fix that for you. I'm here to put you on to a list of Google Search pages that change the color scheme and design of your homepage.
12 Interesting Google Suggest Results & What They Reveal
Google Search is the modern world's confessional. Whatever it is that we need help with, we just type it into the patient white search box and hope for relevant results. Google even helps us complete our searches by suggesting phrases based on the search activities of other users, a feature known as autocomplete. Not surprisingly, the results are often revealing and occasionally entertaining.
How To Turn Off Google's Personal Search Results
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.
Search Through All The Data On Gmail, Google Apps & Twitter With CloudMagic
We are always searching for something. These days it’s probably less about our lives and more on the web. Well, if that’s so, then the browser extension called CloudMagic deserves at least a look-see and maybe an install. CloudMagic as the name implies, is all about the services on the cloud. The magic is that it is a super-fast way to search across multiple services.
5 Ways You Can Search the Web Using Tag Clouds
Quite a few blogs and websites have them. Tag clouds are one of the simplest visualization tools available that can enhance access to buried articles on your website. The eye prefers to pan and scan rather than go vertically or horizontally in search of information. So, some web services have continued to take the help of tag clouds. Here are six web services that help you look for content using tag clouds.
Google Fun – Go Inside Search & Explore Google Services In A Whole New Way At The Playground
You wouldn’t use words like snazzy, flashily stylish, or even showy with Google’s almost barebones effectiveness. Recent changes though have helped to dress up Google and readied it for the Web 2.0 party. We have seen that Google and its interlinked maze of products can be whole lot of fun. You can check out the links at the bottom, but right now let’s click on a link that will take us inside Google Search and into the Playground.
3 Hidden Features In Google Advanced Search You May Not Know About
Google is continually improving its search engine. Not only do they work meticulously on the search algorithm change, but also the graphical user interface and its features constantly receive upgrades. Many changes are subtle and thus easily missed. Likewise, many advanced features are well hidden.
3 Tools To Monitor Google's "Past 24 Hours" Search Results
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.
How To Search For Google Plus User Updates
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.
How To Find Files Online Without Having To Use P2P Software
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.
The 5 Coolest Google Search Hacks You Probably Never Realized Existed
Search results are only as good as the query you enter! While there are many operands or search operators that the general crowd is aware of, such as quotes or some calculations, there are several cool Google search hacks and tricks that most people have never realized existed, let alone used consciously.
How To Find Creative Commons Content With Google
Creative Commons content isn’t always as easy to find as you think. In fact, most things that you find and copy are copyrighted in a way that makes it illegal to copy it without asking the owner for permission. However, the Creative Commons license can help you with that and make you feel better as a person by being a good citizen of the internet.