Google has recently launched a new social service called Schemer which lets you share your schemes, or activities such as visiting a museum or learning how to dance, to people in your Google+ circles or general public. It might is very similar to FourSquare or Twitter in apprearance, however it is very different in a [...]

Are you interested in knowing what grabbed world’s attention in 2011? What were the most popular search terms in 2011? Which celebrity or about which movie people wanted to know more? What did the world cared about this year? Google is ready with all these answers in into annual Zeitgeist 2011 data. There are more [...]

Nyan Cat, a famous internet meme is the new hidden easter egg of Google Plus. You can have this cat by typing ~=[,,_,,]:3 in your Google+ chat window. The emoticon is of an animated cat with a body of cherry pastry, flying through space and leaving a rainbow behind it. This lovely meme has a [...]

Now you can get your own website and Indian .in domain from Google India team (in partnership with ICICI Bank and Hostgator) site free by logging into indiagetonline.in. Earlier too, Google allowed you to make sites and webpages in a wiki like format for anyone from Google Sites. But this time Google is mainly targeting [...]

Many times we wonder that how often Google maps are updated?. We want to know when our favourite location (home town, stadiums, places of interests) gets an image update in Google Maps or Google Earth. The official answer is between 1-3 years. So we keep checking them over again and again with false hopes that [...]

So, its early morning & you open your Gmail and what you might see ? Yes, this is what you may encounter, if you haven’t entered your Birth date in your Google Account. With the increasing fake profiles on Google+, Google is trying to restrict such fake accounts. Earlier Google Groups and than Picasa Web Albums became [...]

I am a huge fan of keyboard Shortcuts which helps me doing my job faster and smarter. Google Calendar also employs some of the keyboard shortcuts like GDocs and Google Reader though not in comprehensive manner. But then too you should by heart them to save time for not playing with the mouse navigating around. [...]

Tasks Porter is a small addon application from Google that allows you to export your Google Tasks data “snapshots” in a variety of formats, such as CSV, iCalendar and HTML, which can then be easily imported by several other task managers and calendar apps, including popular desktop applications like Microsoft Outlook, and other web-based ones such as [...]

Google India Blog announced yesterday that it would begin collecting photographs of Indian roads and nearby areas as a part of Google maps street view. The collection will start from Bangalore and will eventually spread to the other major cities of the country. However, there are news of people already spotting Google vehicles in Mumbai, [...]

Google for educators is giving free posters as downloadable PDF’s. They can be found here. Primarily targeted for the students, these PDF’s help them to gain better understanding of Google web search and its products like Google Earth. However, they are incredibly useful of anyone who wants to know improved ways of searching and using [...]

A Google A Day is an interesting site which asks users to find puzzle answers with the help of Google. Its an addictive game to test your knowledge and Google searching capabilities. Each day, the Google team will ask a question based on varied topics and you will have to find the answer from the [...]

This is an old one but for those who don’t know, Google offers funny n’ geeky language interfaces just for the sake of enjoyment. According to Google; Bork, Elmer, Hacker, klingon and Pirate are languages interfaces that you can use and set as homepage. You can consider them as Easter eggs or funky terminology because [...]

Infographic is portmanteau for Information graphics, which shows information and data in an easy-to-understand manner. And we all know, there is more to Google than meets the eye. For this reason, our favorite website monitoring service – Pingdom have come up with a very cool Google Infographic chart with a ton of facts and figures [...]

Have you ever installed untrusted softwares in your computer? If not, then why install third party extension on Chrome when there are 24 official extensions from Google to choose from. The Google Chrome Extension gallery contains 1000’s of extensions. But are they credible enough to use? Since some of the extensions have access to user-data [...]

Google India has announced Doodle 4 Google competition for Indian school students, which will be showcased on Children’s Day that is 14th November 2009. This is the first competition from Google for India.

Everyone knows that Google Chrome Address bar AKA omnibox can also be used as search box. That is type your query term and simply hit enter to search in Google. A new feature will let you search inside websites by hitting tab button.

Most of us knew handful of prefixes that can be used in Google for specific purpose like link:, related: or site:. However there are much more whose utility can vary amongst general users to webmasters.

Sometimes, results from Google are inclined for a country. And sometimes you wish that your results are from the websites of the specific location for example only UK. Following tricks will remove Google Geo-targeting results based on specific countries.