Google’s +1 button
Google has introduced +1 button as a social recommendation system for Google users. One can hit the +1 button on Google search results page to recommend it to their friends. The +1 likes can be made public or can be set private.
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Google asks Doodle lovers to make Google their homepage
Google asks Doodle lovers to make Google their homepage and never miss another Google Doodle. You can visit Google’s Doodle page and make Google your homepage within seconds.
How to set default locale in Firefox
Lets say you are not in your native country but want to use Google in your native language. Then you wouldn’t like to do it by choosing your language from language settings but rather get the appropriate page automatically. You can do this by setting your default locale on Firefox.
Some tools to check the position of a site on Search Engines
A webmaster is always concerned about the ranking of his site for the chosen keywords and the traffic driven to the site. Checking the SERP rankings of any website for a particular keyword is pretty much easy and straightforward as, a webmaster can wear the shoes of a normal netizen and search for his chosen keyword. Then comes the task of locating his site on the SERPs. If the site appears on the first page or even the second, it wouldn’t be much of a difficult job. But imagine if your website is just budding and lags far behind in the search rankings. In such a case, doing a manual check over all the results ranging to the 10thm, 20th or God knows how many pages could be very tedious. To assist you in such cases, there are lots of tools that show the position of your website on the search engines in a snap. Here are some of the tools for checking a website’s position on search engines.
Convert currency with your favorite search engines
Some people frequently need to convert currency and use the conversion charts. But in the advanced age of internet and with the development of many online tools, converting currency using the currency conversion charts and flicking open the calculator doesn’t look practical. There are lots of websites where you can find that provide currency conversion tools. But how about using your very favorite search engines for currency conversion?
How to download pages of a site from Google Cache
Google, Yahoo, Bing or any other major search engine caches webpages they have already indexed. Generally Google indexes more pages than other search engines for a normal blog. Here’s a trick with which you can recover your website from Google cache. The process has limitations and could be very difficult for large websites but its nonetheless very handy.
Compare upto three Android Phones at Google Phone Gallery
Comparing Android powered mobile devices side by side would make it easier to have an insight on their features and make better decision while buying one. Google’s Phone Gallery has a gallery of all the available android phones and lets you compare up to three Android devices side by side at a time.
John Lennon’s 70th birthday and a New Google Doodle
Google’s homepage today has a very unique doodle. Its a tribute to the great artist John Lennon of Beatles for his 70th Birthday(born: 9th October, 1940). You’ll see a big G, a tree and simple landscape sketch replacing the two “o”s. The other “g” and “l” are intact while the “e” is again replaced with a play button.
Find anyone’s location from their router MAC address (Google Maps API exploit)
Samy Kamkar has used the undocumented Google Maps API to map a web browser to GPS coordinates via router XSS and Google’s Location based services i.e. using this, one can find the location of any person from their MAC address. The application is called MapXSS.
Google’s URL shortener even shortens URLs, previously shortened via other services
Google’s URL shortener Goo.gl was introduced last December as a part of Google toolbar and Feedburner and there wasn’t a direct way to shorten URLs via this service, like the Facebook’s URL shortener fb.me. Goo.gl was then integrated for most of the popular services from Google including Picasa, Blogger, Maps etc. A few days ago, Google opened the URL shortener for everyone, i.e. you can open up Goo.gl on your browser and shorten any URL on the fly. But Goo.gl accepts links previously shortened through other URL shorteners as well which is uncommon among other URL shortening websites. Like if you take a link shortened via bit.ly and insert it into the shortening field of Goo.gl, it still accepts it, unlike other URL shortening services which mark such practices as spamming.