Google Search has always been using a minimalistic design. While this serves several purposes like offering distraction free web searching and fast loading times it does fall a bit short for some users who prefer to access additional information right in the search interface.
Google Fx is a Greasemonkey Script which means it works in all [...]
Spice Up Google Search With Google Fx
Rapidstack Realtime Rapidshare Search Engine
Rapidshare is still offering one of the most popular file hosting services on the Internet despite the recent changes to the core system that have capped the downloads for premium users at 2.66 Gigabytes per day.
Rapidstack (via Download Squad) is a realtime Rapidshare Search Engine. What does that mean? Unlike many other Rapidshare search [...]
Google Flagging Every Website As Malware
If you perform a Google search at the moment you will notice that Google is flagging every website that it returns as malware. The sentence “This site may harm your computer.” appears below the title of each website in the Google index including sites like google.com, whitehouse.gov, yahoo.com and yes, even ghacks.net.
There is not even [...]
Follow Social Media Conversations With Spy
Spy is a search engine for – as they call it – social media conversations. It is powered by Google’s App Engine and indexes the services Twitter, Friendfeed, Flickr, Yahoo News, Google Reader, Blogs and Blog comments. Just enter any keyword or phrase in the search box and select the amount of results that should [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Dec 19th, 2008
- Comments: 16
The reason people love (and should love) Google so much
I’ve been thinking a bit about the history of the internet, and one important point I deduced was how important Google was to this all. Many-many people love Google, which usually means a lot hate it or dislike it too, but everyone should be thankful for what they have done.
You’re probably thinking that I’m [...]
Everything Is A Rather Unusual Desktop Search Tool
Search tools usually begin to display results as soon as the user is entering some characters. Some instantly display hits while others require the use of the enter key to start the search. Everything – that’s the name of the portable software that is under review – uses a different approach.
Like the name suggests it [...]
Google Offering Translated Search Results
The Google Translate service was known for a long time to translate text and websites from one language to the other. The current version features 34 languages from English over German to Vietnamese. Chances are good that Google Translate can translate the text or website into a language that the visitor can understand.
What most users [...]
