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 [...]
If you search for “let it snow” on Google, you will witness the new holiday easter egg. HTML5 Canvas and JavaScript make some beautiful animation to the page with snowflakes and frost covering up the screen. Interestingly, you can write on the screen covered with fog with your mouse once it is all frozen. It [...]
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 India has a new competition mobilemoves for students. The theme is “Google products on the mobile”. The contestants have to register themselves online and upload their videos on the website before 10th December 2011. In an attempt to promote Google mobile products, among Indian mobile users (about 86 million), the Big G is counting [...]
Google has recently announced its first Photography Prize competition for students all over the world. In partnership with Saatchi Gallery of London, the Google team is seeking photographs in selected categories that will inspire and encourage art. This is excellent opportunity for students to get their work noticed and win exciting prices like Samsung Galaxy [...]
Do A Barrel Roll search is another master piece easter egg from Google. This time, while searching for the specific pharse ” Do A Barrel Roll ” [try here] the result page does a complete 360 degree flip before showing you the results. The same page rotating effect can also be achieved by searching for [...]
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 [...]
Everyone dreams for getting a job at Google. After all, Google is a part of FORTUNE Magazine’s prestigious “100 Best Companies to Work For” [source]. We have already seen YouTube’s awesome office picture. Ever wondered how life at Google is? This YouTube channel showcases inside life of Googlers, the Google engineers. Jobvine has come up [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
We are back again, with another infographic and this time it is about all the acquisitions Google has made in last 11 years. Google normally buys smaller companies [26 start-ups in 2010] to fulfil its never-ending hunger for talented engineers which are scarce in Silicon Valley. Being a cash rich and niche company Google cares [...]
Is Google plus really a Facebook killer? Find out what make them same and how one has better features than another with this infographic. Find us in Google Plus [via Technobombs]
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 [...]
Google, the search engine giant has silently introduced an online quarterly magazine named ‘Think Quarterly’. The magazine is aimed for UK partners and advertisers and is dedicated for business data, ads and speed. The 1st edition of this online magazine is available in both EPUB and PDF formats. According to Matt Brittin, Managing Director, UK [...]
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 [...]
Ofter while reading online, we need to find simple meaning of some complex word. For example, while reading about unfamiliar topics or in-depth article from McKinsey Quarterly, we may find some unfamiliar words in course and then we leave/misunderstand them due to lack of time. This is not at all advisable as a little misunderstanding [...]
Often we need particular meaning of some word and we end up searching multiple online dictionaries for the correct usage or definition. Do you know that Google also provides dictionary functionality to its users free of cost and with much more features than others? We will use this Google dictionary to turn our Firefox address [...]
Often we want our search results to be basic, less technical or simpler than what Google gives us. For example, when you search Google for some less popular term, Google throws business reports or technical documentations that are good but useless results. Though the result quality is high with in-depth information but they are of [...]
