Hallelujah! Google Lawyer Admits the Patent System is Broken
Those of you who follow my articles with any regularity will know that one of the biggest arguments I make about the modern technology industry is their insistence on playing Patent tennis […]
Want Even More Distractions? Try Google+'s Youtube Button
Update: The YouTube button is no longer available. I sometimes feel the urge to check for new email messages during work. Other users may feel the same urge when it comes to […]
Google Retires Google Buzz
Google Buzz was a social networking service that Google integrated into the company's web-based email product Gmail. Google Mail users were able to make use of Buzz to share messages, photos, videos […]
Google+ Gets Send A Message Button For Easier Sharing
If you are a regular on Google's social networking experiment Google+ you have noticed that the company makes changes to the site constantly. Sending messages to other Google+ users was something that […]
How To Remove What's Hot On Google+
Update: What's Hot is not displayed anymore in your stream. You can still access the feature with a click on the explore link at the top on Google Plus. Google recently introduced […]
Google Experimenting With New Toolbar Menu
Update: The experiment is over and no longer available. A black toolbar is displayed on almost every Google property. The bar displays links to popular Google services as well as options to […]
Google Introduces Google Maps Api Limits
Google, the company that conquered the Internet by storm by offering mostly free services is slowly being turned around to make even more money than it is currently. One of the latest […]
Google Apps Users Can Now Join Google+
One point of criticism surrounding Google's social networking site Google+ (Google Plus) was the fact that Google Apps users could not join the service. That was irritating for many Google Apps users, […]
Google Replaces + Search Operator
Advanced search operators like the + or - symbols can be used to optimize a search. The - operator for instance makes sure that the term following is not included on pages […]
Google Redirects Your Search To Https? Change It!
Logged in Google users who do not follow the news as closely as the majority of Ghacks visitors may have noticed that Google started to redirect their searches on google.com from http […]
Where Are Google Search Cached And Similar Links?
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 […]
Google Rolls Out Https Search For Logged In Users
Google back in May 2010 enabled https on their core search domain. Users back then were able to access https://www.google.com/ manually for improved security and privacy on the Google Search engine. Google […]
MapsGL Adds Turbo Speed To Google Maps
Update: It appears that the experiment is no longer working as intended. When you click on launch experiment you are taken to Google Maps. There you should see a "want to try […]
Google+ Rolls Out Hashtag and Real-time Search Support
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, […]
Google Engineer says Google+ is a "pathetic afterthought"
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 […]
Is Google+ Waning Already?
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 […]
Teach Parents Tech, Tutorial Videos For Common PC Issues
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 […]
How To Enable, Disable Google Chat History
If you have a Google account you can chat with your contacts, for instance over on the Gmail homepage. This web based chat works pretty much like a standard instant messenger chat. […]
Google Adds Site Health To Webmaster Tools
I have 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 […]
Google Local Business, Fix We currently do not support the location
Imagine that you have your business setup in Google on Google Places. Users from your town can search using location based queries to get your listing in the results or on Google […]
New Google Sign-In Page
Google users who want to sign in with their Google account on the Google website see currently a highlighted announcement on the page. The announcement reads "Coming Soon: A new sign-in page!" […]
Google Updates Sitelinks in Search Results
So called sitelinks are displayed if a specific search term has an authority site associated with it. If you search for Ghacks for instance, you will notice that my site is displayed […]
Google Buys Motorola Mobility
You have probably heard it already: Google just announced that they are going to buy Motorola's Mobile division, Motorola Mobility. The official press release on Google investor relations confirms that Google will […]
Can you live with Google’s Chrome OS? Erm, No
A few days ago I took delivery of a Samsung Chromebook to test, I'll be writing my full review of the Chromebook in a few days, but I wanted to see how easy […]
Google+ Games [Game Saturday]
Google enabled Games on my Google+ account while I was sleeping and I thought it would be a nice idea to review what Google+ Games has to offer on Game Saturday. Let […]
Google Announces Games In Google+
It was only a matter of time before Google started rolling out everyone's favorite pastime on Facebook: Games. Games in Google are gradually rolled out to all users. Those who have access […]
Can you live with Google's Chrome OS? gHacks find out
Today I took delivery of a review Samsung Series 5 Chromebook, one of the first of the new breed of netbook running Google's Chrome operating system. Â I'll write up a full review […]
Google paves the way for Tablet-friendly websites
This has been a long time coming and, to be honest is already way behind schedule. However Google is the first company to make it's search page finger-friendly for tablet operating systems. […]
Your Computer Appears To Be Infected, On Google Search
A computer with a malware infection causes serious troubles for its owner or the current users, especially if they are not aware of the infection. The danger itself depends largely on the […]
Google Launches G.Co, Url Shortener For Internal Pages
URL shorteners are so yesterday, well that is my opinion. Regardless of it, it seems that companies still like the idea of turning a web address into an often smaller alternative. It […]
Google Bans Belgian Newspapers
Belgian newspapers have sued Google because of the company's incorporation of news articles and images in Google News. The newspapers claim that the search giant has no rights to post contents and […]
Google+ And Businesses? Not Right Now, Says Google!
Facebook's presentation yesterday could not put a serious dent into the Google+ hype machine. But not everything is golden and first restrictions and unpleasant surprises have come to light as well. Google's […]
All Your Private Profiles Are Belong To Us
Google's receiving mostly warm receptions from Internet geeks, websites and standard users for their new Google+ social networking service. The company learned to use the Internet hype machine perfectly for their purposes […]
Google+ Privacy, Notifications, What You Should Check
I received my Google+ invite this morning and have been playing around with Google's "answer" to Facebook since then. The thing that I like about it most is the circles feature which […]
Picasa Gets Unlimited Photo Hosting
Storage has become a lot cheaper in recent years. Still, most services that you find online do not offer unlimited storage, and those that do are often not the most trustworthy when […]
Google Takeout, Export Google Data
While it is pretty easy to add and upload data to the cloud, it is often not that easy to download or export the data. This can usually be attributed to a […]
Change Google's Black Navbar Back To White
Google recently rolled out a design change to their search interface. The navigation at the top linking to several Google properties, a user's Google account and other Google services has a new […]
Google hits out at Office 365, Makes a Hash of it!
Tomorrow Microsoft launch their new Office 365 business cloud platform integrating email, calendaring, office, sharepoint and intranets with communications and messaging. It's a big platform with a big future ahead of it […]
The Lesser Way to Disable Spell-Checking in Google Docs
Have you ever used the word processor in Google Docs and noticed unregistered misspellings? The first thing you should do is check in the View menu to see if Show spelling suggestions […]
Use Google Docs Like an Admin
Google Docs is a great way to share documents (such as this article), but keeping track of shares can be tricky. That can be remedied with some thought-out collections (folders) and by […]
