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 [...]
Google Desktop is text search software, which allows you to easily search files, emails, pictures and MP3′s on your computer. This is pretty useful tool which indexes files by their name or content and lets you launch them with few keystrokes. In addition, it provides other handy gadgets such us weather information, calendar, Gmail, news, [...]
When a non-US user visits the Google homepage, they are automatically redirected to the local version of the search engine for that country. This country version can be identified by looking at its tld (postfix after the dot sign in the domain name) which is Google.co.in for Indian users, Google.co.uk for British users, and so [...]
Google Chrome provides a very simple history feature to view past visited websites. It is very easy to use and solves most of the purpose. By default, your past visits are arranged in reverse chronological order with only few sorting options. Often it becomes difficult to search for previous visited sites in history. Chrome history [...]
This one is an old trick, but for those who didn’t knew – You can find latest movies playing in your city with Google Movie Search. But now with technological advances, you can directly find current playing movies with Google.com. Trick: Google blog suggests that we can directly find movie timings by entering movie and [...]
Update: You can use this chrome extension or this Firefox addon as new alternative for getting classical Google back. If you feel Google’s new interface is awful, you can get old plain layout back from http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=all. Google has rolled out new layout to all the users around the globe, but for most of them it’s [...]
Many of us often search for our own names in Google search. This is called as ego surfing i.e. searching for yourself. But, there is nothing more disappointing than finding other people or irrelevant results on searching for our name. If you want your name and other information in Google results, then there are several [...]
Very often, we receive files as Gmail attachment and presuming that Gmail never runs out of space, we never download these attachments. But as time follows, it becomes difficult to keep up with millions of attachment and searching these files becomes nightmare. The biggest mistake we make here is, assuming Gmail as online file storage [...]
Google search suggestions can at times bring you shame by showing embarrassing results. Last time, we have talked about turning off these Google suggestions both permanently and temporarily. However, disabling them from search settings is login based and can be different for different users. When we disable these suggestions, Google saves a cookie on your [...]
Gmail by default sorts mails by date and to group messages by sender, you will have to create a filter. However, there is another simple trick, which will group your mails from a particular person without creating a filter. All it takes is just two clicks to get your work done. We have previously discussed [...]
Gmail’s best feature is its email searching capabilities. Search terms or Operators help us finding mails more easily, effectively and conveniently. Thanks to Google’s proprietary search algorithms, we can find mails hidden deep inside. For example: Just adding after: or before: keyword, we can find mails within particular dates. Here are some more search terms [...]
Google Wave is creating lot of buzz these days. And, why not it should? Almost everyone is talking about it, though many of us couldn’t understand its basic purpose. Most of the technological websites can’t stop dragging about how wonderful wave world would be. But it would only be possible when everyone of us start [...]
2010 is coming and probably Google is planning something special. Last year, Google taught few tips and tricks from “Google’s Countdown to 2009”. This year, Google has made a hidden countdown for 2010. To see this easter egg, you need to visit Google.com and without entering and words in search box, you need to press [...]
Get the power of 4 Google’s at a time with googlegooglegooglegoogle.com. This website claims to increase your productivity by letting you search in four different Googles at same time in a single page. What does this website really do is open four different frames with Google Search in them, and for each one, you can [...]
Recently Google did complete makeover of their search page. Now, it has bigger search box with large fonts for more search suggestions. Google’s core business is search and they are very serious about simplicity and user behavior.
The Firefox directory contains unlimited number of addons. From most popular to most useful, these addons simplify our work by customizing firefox as per our needs. Still, you can get your work done quickly by simple tips.
Delete all your searches that you have ever made on internet from everywhere to maintain your privacy and protect yourself from intruders. This simple tutorial will guide you to delete search history from internet browsers, Google Toolbar, Desktop Search and from Google servers.
Remember the hoax created by ecoIron that Google could save up to 3000 Megawatt-hours of energy by switching to black screen. There was also an explanation by the Google itself that why it is not feasible to show results in black screen background.
