When Google follows you around and gives you helpful articles
Your Google Translate phrases will influence your Google personalized newsfeed
Start a fun digital whiteboard for remote workers
With so many of us working remotely, we miss the small little things about sharing a common physical space. Things like the office whiteboard.
Sparking the imagination by looking at a list of Google search terms
Certainly there are times when you have quirky google searches. Author Tessa Wegert tweeted a few of hers: My searches today:• World’s biggest trophy • Ferris Bueller vest • What are superhero suits made of • Estonian Krooni • Hyde and Eek I’d love to see a list of people’s Google searches for unique topics. …
Sparking the imagination by looking at a list of Google search terms Read More »
In a Google search, WP is a shortcode for Wikipedia
If you do a Google search that starts with the letters “wp”, Google will automatically bring you to a Wikipedia page. (WP is a shortcode for Wiki Pedia.) Sounds pretty handy, right? Why type out the full word “Wikipedia”? You can just type a shortcode, “WP”. Except it’s not so handy, when you really do …
In a Google search, WP is a shortcode for Wikipedia Read More »
Imagine the internet with no search engines
What the internet would look like if there were no search engines? Twitter would have a lot more questions posted. Often times when I’m curious about something, it’s tempting to ask on Twitter. But then I quickly realize we have Google (or DuckDuckGo). For instance, I was about to ask on Twitter, “Does Adobe Creative …
List of search operators deleted by Google over the years
Google has a list of advanced search operators to give you more accurate results. With these search operators you can limit your search to include results only from one website (Search for origami on spudart.org using origami site:spudart.org). Or you could tell Google to search only the title of the website. (Find webpages that have croquet in …
List of search operators deleted by Google over the years Read More »
Sort by date in Google reverse image search
Image if Google’s reverse image search allowed you to sort by date. That way it can help you find the original source of an image. I want to find the original source of the image in this tweet. Doing a reverse image search on Google for this image results in a bajillion options: So many …
What was I going to google?
Google, the mind reader. Ever forget what you are doing at the moment and you turn to Google to tell you what you were just doing? “What was I just doing?” results in about 197,000 results. “What was I just thinking?” gives about 295,000 results. Most valuable of them all is when you want to google something, but …
Google News really suggested for you?
Google offers a custom news feed according to your defined preferences. Many other players in the field are doing this, Zite, Flipboard, and now Apple. But Google has some weight here, because y’know, they are Google. For the past couple months, I’ve been fine-tuning my “Suggested for you” feed in Google news. Telling Google I’m …
What will the Google Plus employees who worked on imaging do now?
Techcrunch reports that many of the workers who formerly worked on Google Plus will be doing things in other parts of google. The techcrunch author states that perhaps other parts of Google will benefit from the people who worked on the imaging on Google Plus: …there are a ton of really interesting things going on …
What will the Google Plus employees who worked on imaging do now? Read More »
Syncing blog post comments with instant messages
Imagine if blog comments could connect with IMs. Or IMs to connect with blog comments. What do I mean? It seems like a bit amount of work to go to a blog post, type a comment, and wait for a response. Example: I’m having a conversation with my cousin on his blog post about the …
Syncing blog post comments with instant messages Read More »
Can Google and Bing search engines recommend great recipes?
When you search for recipes using search engines, how do they they select which ones you’ll see? The New York Times gives a fun ride across how search engines rank recipes, Can Recipe Search Engines Make You a Better Cook?. Some clips: The newer [search engine] models try to evaluate recipes and rank them by …
Can Google and Bing search engines recommend great recipes? Read More »
Is text in images indexable by Google?
Does Google indexes the text in images on webpages? We were all taught that text in images is bad for SEO, because Google can’t index the text. However, having an Evernote Pro account makes me think differently now. I upload all my screenshots to Evernote, because it can index the text in the image and …
Google beats Pinterest at browsing images
When it comes to looking through images, Google’s layout of rows is much better than Pinterest’s layout of columns. Google is very organized and easy to scroll down and look at all the images in a sequential manner. The rows keep all the various images in order. The Western world reads left to right, so …
Four reasons why private circles don’t work on Google Plus
Do you wish you could filter out posts you don’t care about on Google Plus? Take Guy Kawasaki with 4.6 million followers. Great tech business mind of Apple. But the man posts photos of everything in his life. Who cares for that? Readers should have an option to not be in the circle where he …
Four reasons why private circles don’t work on Google Plus Read More »
Google Reader is gone, but iGoogle remains
Today the dinosaurs remain, but the smart animals are killed. Google kills off the very smart product, Google Reader today, but the dinosaur iGoogle remains alive. Who knew ancient web portals were so vital to Google? Many years have passed since I last visited my iGoogle web portal. My iGoogle even has a Friend Feed …
Calvin and Hobbes doesn’t use Google
Attention print book lovers, When Calvin wants to find information, he doesn’t run for Google. Instead, he runs for the encyclopedia. Ironically, the encyclopedia does not have the answer. (Calvin and Hobbes comic strip courtesy gocomics)
Much knowledge is still sealed in books, away from the internet
When we search for something in Google, and there are no results; we tend to think that if it’s not in Google, then it doesn’t exist. An example: A fascinating twitter account pulls quotes from various articles by the famous (and dead) art critic Clement Greenberg. Reading these abbreviated quotes are fascinating little nuggets. Often …
Much knowledge is still sealed in books, away from the internet Read More »
Google ditches smart people in favor of the stupid masses
Google likes to make their products stupidly simple so they can reach the widest, most stupid audience possible. When Google doesn’t make products stupidly simple, they fail. Take Google Plus, Buzz, and Wave. Google succeeds when they make their products simple, like their search engine, Google Talk, Google Docs (simple in comparison to Word), Gmail …
Google ditches smart people in favor of the stupid masses Read More »
Four reasons why Google is killing Google Reader
Why would Google kill Google Reader? There are a few false excuses floating around. Some people are saying Google is focusing on their core efforts. Others are claiming that RSS is a dying technology. Both of those reasons would be extremely false. The “core efforts excuse” is not a reason. Google states their purpose on …
Four reasons why Google is killing Google Reader Read More »