That’s Google’s pun in the title, but by Zeus’s greased lightningbolt! I wish I’d thought of it first. Google’s big announcement is the launch of Google Instant. I think most of us had hoped Instant would be but a part of today’s goodies, but alas! You can try it out by simply heading to www.google.com [...]
Watch the video! Pretty awesome, eh? The problem is, as TechCrunch says, what about the advertising? Does every page refresh count as an ad impression? Will slower typists incur more screen refreshes? By the same rationale, surely real-time results like that must chew through the bandwidth, especially as search results become more interactive and media-rich. [...]
It’s such a fantastic concept: a database of customer service numbers with the buttons you need to push to skip the computers (and Indian call centers) to talk to a real, boner fidee Ameerikin who’s just positively thrilled to be helping you with your problem. Unfortunately, while one of the best ideas I’ve ever seen, [...]
Google has had a “dictionary lookup” feature for a while now — all you had to do was slap define: before your search term. But they’ve now made it better, and mostly, made it easier for people to find it: Just search for a “difficult” word, and a definition would pop up as the first [...]
Google Image Search has just gotten a much-needed refresh that looks great, works better than ever, and keeps Google competitive with Bing’s image search. At the risk of sounding like a Google advertisement, this update is awesome. As a regular image search user, I have to say that every change the Google Image Search team [...]
At the beginning of the month, we told you how Google’s license to operate in China was up for renewal. Well, that renewal has finally come through, and Google will be allowed to stay in the country. The search giant had temporarily redirected its Chinese site to Google.hk in Hong Kong, to avoid censorship, but [...]
If you’re constantly being called on by friends and family to provide tech support, troubleshooting, and computer advice, you’ve probably had to install security applications on other people’s computers more than once. Heck, you may do it just about every day. If so, you might want to grab SSDownloader — an open source app which [...]
Wednesday was a big day for Google in China. It’s the deadline for a renewal of the search giant’s Internet Content Provider license, the license that allows Google to keep operating in China. On Monday, Google explained in a blog post that it would stop redirecting traffic from Google.cn to its Hong Kong site, Google.hk, [...]
Is the “like” about to replace the link as the Web’s main currency? If Facebook’s Open Graph continues the way it’s going, it’s possible. Open Graph now includes “liked” pages in search results, with the number of likes playing a role in rankings. Basically, it’s like a parallel universe Google, where SEO depends on playing [...]
S.M.A.R.T is an acronym that stands for Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology. It’s a nice bit of intelligence that hard drive makers have been including into drive firmware for several years now. In simple terms, it’s supposed to let you know that a drive is about to crash before the crash happens. You can then [...]
