Tagged: Google

26 Aug, 2010

Now call phones directly from Gmail

Gmail has unarguably become the most user friendly and feature packed email service out there. The handy plugins developed by Gmail labs, the Voice and Video chat feature etc. are all very popular and have somewhat become a part of our lives. Gmail with its ever increasing array of new and useful features has recently rolled out a very handy functionality, the “Call Phone” feature. This lets you make a call to normal phones with the aid of your headphone and microphone.

1 Apr, 2010

Google celebrates April Fool’s Day

Google Celebrates April Fool’s Day and Releases Google Voice Search for Animals.

21 Dec, 2009

Funny Google Suggestions

Google’s suggestion is helpful and can sometimes be too weird that would make you laugh. Autocompleteme is a site, specifically a blog, that keeps track of funny Google suggestions and posts them as screenshots.

3 Dec, 2009

Google Analytics-Asynchronous tracking

Google Analytics, has recently launched an asynchronous tracking feature that will hopefully prove fruitful to large sites and even small ones should get benefited. The Asynchronous tracking feature boasts a significant reduction in website loading time upon its implementation.

19 Jun, 2009

Wonder wheel now in Youtube too

The Wonder wheel that was introduced in Google about a month ago is now on Youtube as well. The wonder wheel in Google is really a very useful tool for diversifying search results and getting more insights to the related content.

13 Jun, 2009

Google to launch a microblogging search engine

Twitter search sorts the results by their date i.e. in a chronological order and not their relevancy. There is a need for a perfect search engine like Google, Yahoo etc. for microblogging sites like Twitter.

8 Jun, 2009

Search options added in Google Video Search

Google Video search has added some advanced search options making it more easier to find videos. You must have noticed one of the latest features in Google Search, the “Show Options”. A similar “show options” can be found in Google video search too. You just do a search and you’ll see the “search options” at the top of the page.

6 Jun, 2009

Compare search results of Google with Bing

Even before its official release, the talks of Bing have been going around. It takes time to decide whether Bing can really be a substitute for Google. Bing has some really cool features and the search results are pretty much impressive than those of Live search. Well you can compare the results from Google and Bing yourself.

4 Jun, 2009

Google Chrome out for Mac and Linux too

Google Chrome, the browser that is gaining much popularity today has built temptation for Linux and Mac users regarding the launch of Chrome for these platforms. Well now Linux and Mac users will be able to use Chrome, or to say a crash prone version of Chrome.

29 May, 2009

Google Web Elements for adding Google powered elements on your site

Google announced Google Web Elements at the I/O developer conference. It lets you easily add various Google elements to your site. Google Web Elements allows you to easily embed a Spreadsheet, Maps or News Results to your site.

29 May, 2009

Microsoft comes up with its new search engine Bing

Microsoft is soon rolling out its new search engine, Bing. Formerly known as Kumo, Bing is the latest effort by Microsoft in the Search Engine scenario after live search. It is expected to be public from June 3, 2009. Rumors have it that Microsoft will be investing a 100 million dollars for its promotion.

22 May, 2009

Google improves search suggestions

Many popular search engines including Google these days suggest queries as you type them. The suggestions appear in the drop down menus. These are very helpful as they let you see the related keywords searched by other people. Google has recently made its suggestion feature just better.

13 May, 2009

Understanding a Google query URL

Google gives a lot more options for filtering your search results. Like if you want to look for the definition or meaning of a certain word, you need not go to dictionary.com and search for the word. You can get your meaning with the query, “define:word” in Google. Or you can find all the pages in a site with the query, “site:yoursite.com”. You can also get desired results by modifying the Google Query URL that it returns after a query.

11 Mar, 2009

Google to display more relevant Adsense ads

Google has taken a huge step ahead on targeting the Google Adsense ads. Google has announced that now onwards, the ads will not just be relevant to the content of the website on which it is present but also related to the type of content that people love to see on the internet. Google has launched this “interest-based” advertising as a beta test on its partner sites and Youtube.

1 Mar, 2009