Google accidentally (or maybe not) published a video on the company’s official YouTube video channel that introduced a new Gmail interface. The video has been set to private shortly thereafter but viewers were quick enough to save it and re-publish it on YouTube. The video announcement highlights many upcoming Gmail design changes and features. This [...]

Categories: Email, Google

If you have been using Google Search in past years you may have noticed a cached and similar link next to nearly every search result on Google. The cached entry linked to a cached copy of the web page that Google stored on their own servers. The similar link on the other hand listed related [...]

Categories: Google, Search Engines

Sometimes when you look locations and places up on Google Maps you will notice delays before the tiles appear in the web browser that you are using to access the service. The Google Maps Team has just released a new Chrome Experiment that makes use of latest browser technologies to provide a better more seamless [...]

Categories: Google

It has been a while since I last mentioned Google+ here on Ghacks. Mike published a story yesterday about a Google employee who accidentally posted a rant about the Google+ product online, and the day before about a third party analysis that came to the conclusion that traffic was dropping on the social networking site. [...]

Categories: Google

Google Software engineer Steve Yegge accidentally broadcast a 4,500 word rant about the company and described their latest social networking exercise as a “pathetic afterthought” and a “knee-jerk reaction” according to ZDNet’s Ed Bott.  In the rant he talked about the failings at the company and then accidentally broadcast it to the world. Google+ is [...]

Categories: Google

It’s been less than a month since Google opened up it’s new social networking site, Google+.  Now data collected by Chikita insights is suggesting that traffic to the site has recently dropped by as much as 60%. The sudden drop, reported by Dvice, showed a huge surge in traffic last month of 1,200% but now [...]

Categories: Facebook, Google

Since you are reading this blog I assume you get a lot of tech related questions that you need to answer. In my family it is my mom who is asking me questions about sending images as attachments via email or deleting lines in an Excel document. And while that feels very basic for me, [...]

Categories: Google, Online Services

I have only a good dozen websites listed under my Google account in Webmaster Tools. In case you do not know what that is, it is a service for webmaster to verify domain ownership to get additional information about the status of each website added in the Google search engine. You can manage crawl rates, [...]

Categories: Google

Imagine that you have your business setup in Google under Google Places. Users from your town can search using location based queries to get your listing in the results or on Google Maps. Think Plumber Manhattan for instance. If you optimize the listing you usually have good chances to be at the top of the [...]

Categories: Google, Web Development