How To Resend The Google Verification Email
I just signed up for a new YouTube account for one of my other sites. The signup process is pretty straightforward. Enter your desired username, email address, birthday and gender, and on […]
10 Uses For Google's Search By Images
I have reviewed Google's Search by Images yesterday and was impressed by the new search feature. The image recognition works extremely well in most cases. Search will still turn out blank occasionally […]
Google Search By Image
Searching by image is a new feature of Google Search that was introduced yesterday as well. It basically allows the web user to upload an image to Google to search for it […]
Google Drops Support For Old Browsers
Web companies like Google, WordPress or Facebook are suddenly realizing that old web browsers may have a serious impact on the support they offer. While everyone applauds the companies for dropping support […]
How To Properly Protect Your Google Account, Login
After showing you how to protect your Facebook account login from malicious attacks, it is time to show you how to protect your Google account and login as well. Your Google login […]
Google Unveils eWallet
Google officially launched its new mobile service, eWallet on Thursday 26th May at a ceremony held in New York with its partners, the main one of which was MasterCard. This system enables […]
Google Stands Against PROTECT IP
Last week a bill was tabled in the American senate that would allow the Department of Justice to take out a court order against sites accused of infringing copyright. Google’s Erik Schmidt […]
GoogleCrashHandler.exe Process Update
You may know that I check the running processes of my computer regularly. This is mainly a security precaution to detect malicious processes that may be running. More often than not I […]
Subscription Bar Remover For Youtube
One thing that's been annoying YouTube users for quite some time is the subscriptions bar that may be automatically displayed at the bottom of the screen. Many users refer to it as […]
Google Search, New Layout, Style
We know that Google is constantly running experiments on google.com. Those experiments are only visible to a subset of visitors to test them before they may go live for all users eventually. […]
Gmail Background Send
One of the annoying aspects of web mail accounts is that you cannot navigate away from a page after you have initiated an action. This includes uploading larger attachments or sending emails. […]
Google Eliminates Google Video Deadline, Service Stays Online
Google recently made the announcement that they would shut down their video hosting service Google Video for good. I have covered the announcement in Google Video Closing Down, What You Need To […]
How To Disable Google Search Redirects
Many websites look up the IP address that you are connecting with, or other browser header information, to redirect you automatically to a language specific version of the website. While those systems […]
Google Image Basic Userscript Redirects To Google's Old Image Search
Google rolled out a new version of Google Image Search some time ago. The most prominent change is that all image results are now displayed on the same page, with new images […]
Google Video Closing Down, What You Need To Know
Before Youtube, Google tried to conquer the video hosting niche with a service that they called Google Video. When they discovered that they could not compete with Youtube, they bought that service […]
Google Scribe Updated, More Languages Added
Update: Google Scribe is no longer available as Google retired Google Labs. Google introduced the text completion service Google Scribe in September of 2010. Back then it was only available for English […]
Google Experimental Search Explained
Did you know that Google has a labs-like feature for Google Search? Labs-like feature, what was that again? The Google Chrome browser, Google Mail and other Google products offer experimental features to […]
Google +1 Button, Social Sharing Similar To Facebook Like
Google just made an announcement on the Google Webmaster Central blog that they will start introducing a +1 button to Google Search and as a button for websites. Google +1 seems awfully […]
Can't Sign Out Of Google
Google changed the header on many of their pages recently from more or less static links leading to often used features, the account, settings and sign out to a menu like interface […]
Google Adds Block All Domain Results To Search
The Chrome extension Personal Blocklist was apparently only the first step in Google's quest for a personalized user experience on Google Search. You may remember that Personal Blocklist was introduced to give […]
Remove Google Properties From Search With A Comma
Google has turned from a search engine into a jack of all trades. The company started many different en devours ever since its rise to power; Some successful, like Google Maps, others […]
Gmail Resets 150,000+ Email Accounts, Loses Everything
If you can't log into your Gmail account this morning it could be because engineers at Google are trying to recover all your emails that they accidentally deleted last night. Some estimates […]
How To Search Websites By Date And Time
I love to search for new userscripts on the official website. The owners of the site use Google Search to display search results which in itself is not bad. The one thing […]
Google Rolls Out Search Algorithm, Targets Content Farms
Google is making a lot of changes lately which can partially be attributed to the rising criticism that search quality has taken the dive in recent years. The aim of the latest […]
Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office
Update: Google Cloud Connect is no longer available. An alternative is to install Google Drive and open, edit and save documents using it in Microsoft Office. How are you managing your documents? […]
Enable Google 2-Step Verification Right Now, Even If It Is Not Available
You may have heard about Google's latest effort to improve the account security for Google account users: 2-Step verification. Google adds a second authentication layer to the standard username and password log […]
Will Google Kill the URL Bar in Chrome?
All web browsers are getting serious overhauls with the most recent being Internet Explorer 9 with its new one box. This is a unified address and search box and it makes sense […]
Google Docs Viewer Gets Microsoft Excel, Adobe Photoshop Support
Update: Google Docs Viewer is no longer available. The formats are however supported by Google Docs and Gmail integration is also still provided. The main difference is that there is no option […]
Blocking Spam In Search Engines
You may have read that Google created an extension for its Google Chrome browser exclusively that can be used to block results in Google search from appearing again. The main reason for […]
Google Rolls Out Advanced Sign-In Security
A Google account is currently only protected by a username, which in most cases is an email address, and a password. Threats like phishing, brute forcing and social engineering are very common […]
Google Earth Helps Find 2,000 Archaeological Sites
It's great to see new, different and exciting ways that new technology is being put to. The latest is Google Earth, which has been used to study potential archaeological sites in Saudi […]
Google vs. Bing: Spying, Cheating, Stealing, An Overview
If you have followed the news lately you may have noticed articles about Bing stealing Google's search results on all major tech blogs. Lifehacker, Download Squad, Neowin and dozens of other blogs […]
Google Search Suggestions Block Download Related Suggestions
Google search suggestions displays the most likely search terms in the search form once the user begins typing. Sometimes it is enough to enter one letter and hit the tab key to […]
Google Offers Group Buying Service Lauching Soon
Maybe you remember reading about Google's attempt to acquire Groupon, a leading deal of the day website that is offering its users a deal per day based on their location. Google's 6 […]
Gmail (Google Mail) Overview
Gmail is a free ad-supported web-mail service supporting both POP3 and IMAP4 email protocols. It is provided by Google, the company that runs the search engine website of the same name. Gmail […]
Google Launch the Nexus S Phone... But is it Wise or Necessary?
Google have launched their new own-branded Smartphone, the Samsung-made Nexus S, to lots, some, a bit of fanfare around the world. The handset runs the latest version of their Android operating system […]
Google Instant Previews, Preview Not Available
Google's new addition to it search engine, Instant Previews, is getting lots of press since its introduction. Google claims the new feature adds 5% to the search engine users satisfaction, others do […]
How To Disable Google Instant Previews
Google Instant Previews is the latest in a series of improvements that Google has added to their search engine. Instant Previews add a small spying glass next to each page title in […]
Google VP hits out at 'Political' Windows Phone 7
With the official launch of Microsoft's long-overdue new Smartphone operating system, Windows Phone 7 just two days away, it's little wonder that people at Apple and Google might be more than a […]
Google Docs Viewer, View Documents Online
There are basically two options to access and read documents posted on the Internet. The documents can be downloaded to the local PC to access them locally, or viewed online providing the […]
