Google acquires online virus scanning service Virustotal
My go to service for scanning individual files online for malicious code is VirusTotal. It scans files that you upload to it with 42 different antivirus engines that include the majority of […]
Gmail: advanced search autocomplete predictions and three labs graduations
If you are accessing your Gmail account in a web browser you have probably noticed that Google has been busy lately adding new features to its Google Mail service. It was just […]
Germany's Google Tax is a go
Remember how some Belgian newspapers sued Google in court for including news articles, images and links to the newspaper sites in Google News? The newspapers wanted money from Google, and while the […]
You can now save your search settings to your Google account
Google's search settings are available to all users of the search engine, regardless of whether they are signed in to their account or not. Here you can change the SafeSearch filter from […]
New Google Search signal: copyright removal notices
Google from next week on will add a new ranking signal to its search algorithm that is taking into account a site's copyright removal notices. The signal will be one of over […]
Gmail results in Google Search? Nonsense!
Okay, so Google is pushing forward with social search and the integration of Google products to the company's search offering. After plastering Google+ links and banners nearly everywhere, the company is preparing […]
Google replaces Gmail video chat with Google+ Hangouts
It is becoming apparent that Google is pushing its Google+ networking service with all of its might into the market. I'm not saying that Google+ is a bad service, or that it […]
Google Search: left sidebar moves to the top
Google according to several sources in the US is currently rolling out a layout change for Google Search that is moving the left sidebar to the top of the results page. The […]
YouTube combating spam problem with switch to real names?
Reports have appeared on a number of websites that YouTube seems to display prompts to users of the site at the moment that is asking them to start using their full name […]
Google annoys Opera users with incompatibility warnings
Opera users who are administrating a blog on Blogger, Google's free blog hosting service, receive warning notifications as of lately that the browser is no longer supported by the service. Google notes […]
Google to retire iGoogle on November 1, 2013
Bad news for users of some of Google's lesser popular and known services. The company has just announced another round of service cleanups on the official company blog. Probably the most prominent […]
Google Glass, Nexus Q, Nexus Tablet Overview
If you did not have time to watch the Google I/O keynote, nor the time to read through the myriads of news that every tech site and many others posted about the […]
Google to charge for Product Listings in Google Shopping switch
Back in May, Google announced that it would soon switch from the free to list-in Google Product Search to the paid only Google Shopping service. Webmaster are currently notified via email about […]
How to disable Email Notifications on Google+
I have recently been receiving quite a few email notifications from Google+ that informed me of new posts and comments on the social networking site. While I did not mind that in […]
Google buys Meebo for $100M
The past months have been filled with acquisitions and rumors about them, from Facebook buying Instagram for $1 Billion Dollars and the rumor that the company is interested in Opera Software, to […]
How To Access Removed Results On Google Search
If you search on Google regularly, you may have noticed omitted entries on some search results pages. For those of you who have never encountered that, try searching for windows 7 torrent […]
Google Removal Requests By Organization, Copyright Owner and Domains
Depending on what you search for on Google, you sometimes may find information at the bottom of the search page that inform you that results have been removed from the page in […]
Add DuckDuckGo's Zero-Click Information To Google Search
One of the great features of the search engine DuckDuckGo are its zero-click information boxes that are automatically displayed at the top of the search results for select queries. The information may […]
Google Knowledge Graph Launches In the U.S.
Remember Bing's recent announcement that they would redesign search? Part of that is a redesign of Bing's search result page, and the new snapshot bar that is attached to the main search […]
Google+ Hangouts On Air Available To A Wider Audience
If you are a Google+ user, you have probably read about hangouts before, and maybe even joined some. Hangouts basically are chat rooms where you can chat with a group of people. […]
How To Open CSV Files On Google Docs
If you do not have Microsoft Excel, or an Open Source counterpart like Open Office or Libre Office installed, and you have a csv file that you need to open, you may […]
How To Use Gmails Email Translate Feature
Automatic email translations have been available on Google Mail for some time as parts of Gmail Labs. Users who have activated the feature in their account, were able to make use of […]
Google Drive May Give Access To Full Google Account
Google Drive is Google's cloud storage service that has been making the rounds on the Internet ever since it launched a few days ago. It basically gives every Google user who signs […]
How To Benefit From Google Account Activity Reports
A compromised Internet account could have disastrous consequences. From deleted data to impersonations and malicious activities, it is all possible once access to an account has been gained by third parties. For […]
Google Rolls Out Search Update To Combat Web Spam
As a webmaster, I'm often affected by updates to Google's search algorithm. Updates that try to resolve issues with low quality sites, web spam or sites that are tampering with the system […]
Google Drive for PC
It took less than 24 hours before I received the message that Google Drive had been enabled for my Google account. Once Google Drive is active, users can access files online on […]
Google Drive Launches With 5 Gigabytes Of Free Storage
Google's file hosting and synchronization service Google Drive is here, at least for some users as the service seems to be rolling out gradually right now. The Google Drive homepage is live, […]
Google Drops Another Batch Of Services, Products
Google has dropped a number of services in the past six month period. From Google Sky Map and Picnik, Google Buzz or Knol and Gears. Yesterday's announcement marks the beginning of the […]
Web of Trust May No Longer Display Google Ad Trust Ratings
The Web of Trust team is reporting that a Google policy change is affecting the display of the service's trust ratings on Google. As it stands now, trust ratings are only displayed […]
Facebook Should Build Their Own Browser? I Do Not Think So
Ben Parr over at Cnet believes that Google will eventually win the social networking battle against Facebook thanks to the success of the company's Google Chrome web browser. The argument goes something […]
To Much Whitespace On Google+? Reduce It!
If you are already seeing the new design over at Google's social networking site Google+, you may have noticed the vast amount of whitespace on the site. This is especially apparent if […]
Publish, Read News With Google Currents
Ghacks readers from the United States may have already come into contact with Google Currents, Google's news aggregation service for mobile devices. Back then Google the Currents app for Android and iOS […]
Google+ April 2012 Redesign Rolling Out
If you have been to Google's social networking site Google+ in the last few hours, you may have spotted design changes on some pages or profiles that may have made you wonder […]
Newsmap, A Google News Visualization
Newsmap is a visualization mashup for Google News. When you visit the site, you will be greeted with a colorful display of news items posted in various sizes on the frontpage of […]
YouTube Launches One-click Video Improvements
If you do not have the time or skill to edit your videos locally before you upload them to the popular video hosting site YouTube, you'd probably grew fond of the video […]
Gmail Reports Why Mails Have Been Rated As Spam
Like many other email providers, Gmail is using anti-spam technologies to filter out spam messages automatically. These spam messages are then moved into the spam folder, and not into the mail inbox. […]
Google Expands Its All Your Base Are Belong To Us Approach
When Larry Page took over the steering wheel at Google, the company made a u-turn on the "do not do evil" road which it had followed for most of its existence. Now, […]
Google To Enable HTTPS For International Search Users In The Coming Weeks
HTTPS has been the default protocol for the past months for users connecting to the google.com website. Google switched to https on by default last year, from previously offering https connections as […]
Google's New Privacy Policy Takes Effect Today
By now you have probably read about Google's privacy policy changes that take effect today. Some of you may have deleted their web history and other Google history, or even migrated Google […]
YouTube's Automated Copyright Video Scan Appears Broken
Imagine the following scenario. You film how you are collecting ingredients for a wild salad, and upload the video to YouTube. You then get a copyright claim later on stating that the […]
