Turn off SeachWiki customized search results in Google
Posted on June 30, 2009 - Filed Under Google Software/Tips | Leave a Comment
SearchWiki is a feature in Google Web Search that lets you customize the result pages manually by ranking, removing, and adding notes.
It basically consists of a few extra buttons on the search result pages, including a green up arrow, an “x” to remove a result, an “Add a result” button and a comment icon, if you want to add your own comments.
You will see these buttons when you are signed into your Google account. The changes that you make will stick as long as you are logged into Google. Next time you perform that search, the results will be the customized version you created.
Top 9 cool and useful Gmail lab features
Posted on June 27, 2009 - Filed Under Google Software/Tips | 1 Comment
If you’re using Gmail and have not played around with the new Gmail Labs options, you’re definitely missing out on some cool features! Why aren’t these out of beta yet, you might ask?
Who knows! It usually takes Google a long time to move from their Labs to standard feature, even if people have used those features for years. Anyway, here is my list of ten cool and useful features in Gmail Labs that you should enable.
You can get to Gmail Labs by clicking on the green flask icon at the top right of your Gmail window:
How to use Google Reader to manage RSS feeds
Posted on June 20, 2009 - Filed Under Google Software/Tips | Leave a Comment
RSS feeds are way for us readers to subscribe to web providers like blogs and newsletters. With so much good content out there on the Net, it is good to have a tool to manage RSS feeds. With Google Reader you can save your RSS feeds to a central location using your Google account so that you can access it anywhere once you are online.
Your subscribed RSS pages are listed on the left side while the right side contains the content of each RSS feed.
Google Squared – View search results in spreadsheet format
Posted on June 4, 2009 - Filed Under Google Software/Tips | Leave a Comment
There’s been a lot of search engine news lately, starting with the release of the much hyped Wolfram Alpha, a computational search engine that aims to give you a direct answer to certain types of questions.
Google has been working on a product called Google Squared, which is aimed to kill off competition from the likes of Wolfram Alpha. So what is this mysterious new tool from Google?
Google Squared is basically Google’s way to take unstructured data on the web, combine it, manipulate it, and spit it out in a nice spreadsheet format for you to analyze to delights end!
What’s new in Google Chrome 2?
Posted on May 28, 2009 - Filed Under Google Software/Tips | 1 Comment
Eight months after releasing Google Chrome, a new version has finally been released, Chrome 2. The new browser’s version is claimed to be even faster than its predecessor, which became a benchmark in browser speed last year. Over 300 bugs were also claimed to have been fixed, so we could expect more stability from this new release.
Here are screenshots of the visual improvements done in version 2. To hide the thumbnails when you open a new tab, there is an option to remove the thumbnails on the new tab window.
New Google features – Search Options and Rich Snippets
Posted on May 13, 2009 - Filed Under Google Software/Tips | 1 Comment
Yesterday Google clued us in on a couple of new features they are working for the search engine at their annual Searchology event. Last year they released Universal Search and this year had some exciting new innovations.
Firstly, one change you will see immediately in the search results are the new “search options”. Search options basically is a toolset that lets you filter your search results on the fly.
