Export Chrome's Personal Blocklist To Your Google Account
I reviewed the Personal Blocklist extension for the Chrome web browser back in February of this year. The extension offered to block specific domains from appearing in Google's search results. Blocked domains […]
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 […]
Dropout, USB, Dropbox Search Tool
When you connect an external USB drive to a computer you may run into the problem that finding files on the drive is not as easy and fast as it could be. […]
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, […]
Firefox Boounce, Switch Search Engines Effortlessly
Bing is my default search engine for a number of reasons. I really do not want to rehash why that's the case. Sometimes I cannot find what I'm looking for using Bing, […]
Bing Adds HTML5 Video Support To Homepage
The Bing homepage and the Google homepage have several things in common. They both embed a search form prominently on the page. The page itself has been designed to be almost distraction […]
Bing Now Suggests Top Actions For Some Searches
Bing just like Google may display sitelinks or authority links underneath the first search result for a certain query. Google recently gave those sitelinks more room which I criticized for being to […]
Using Windows 7 Advanced Search Operators
Windows users are familiar with the not so perfect search utility in XP. Now with Windows 7 we have an ideal form of searching ability with Advanced Query Syntax (AQS). These are […]
Bing Gets Adaptive (Personalized) Search
A recent search engine trend is to personalize the user experience. You can best see this on Google Search, where you not only see personalized search results based on previous searches and […]
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 Launches Panda Algorithm For Additional Languages
Google launched a new search engine algorithm earlier this year that they internally called the Panda update. The idea behind Panda was to introduce a quality variable into the ranking equation. Sites […]
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 Rolling Out Voice Search
Voice Search is the second new technology next to page prerendering that Google introduced exclusively for Chrome web browser users yesterday on Inside Search. Android smartphone users may already be aware of […]
8 Social Likes That You May Not Want To See In The Search Results
Both Bing and Google are dead serious that search engine users want a search that is more social, that weaves recommendation's, likes and personal messages into the results. This change is happening […]
Bing Adds The Friend Effect To Search
Bing back in February announced the integration of Facebook likes into the search results. Friend recommendations appeared only on some results pages at that time. This changed yesterday with the roll out […]
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. […]
Bing Search After A Year, The Good And Bad
You may know that I have switched by primary search engine from Google to Bing sometime last year. I was fed up with Google for several reasons, including their constant push of […]
FilesTube, File Search Engine
FilesTube is a popular meta file search engine that lets you search file hosting sites for hosted files. It supports a variety of file hosts, from Rapidshare and Mediafire over 4Shared and […]
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 […]
The Ultimate Tech Search Engine
I'm not the only one who thinks that search quality has taken a dive in recent years. I do not want to paraphrase the whole argument again, but I believe it is […]
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 […]
Bing Search Improves Facebook Integration
Is social the next search? Rumors about Facebook Search have been spread for years; The data that Facebook's developers could utilize sounds enormous: Content from more than 500 million users who share […]
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 […]
Bing Improves Personalized Search
The Bing team made an announcement over at the official Bing blog that may be interesting for users who use the Bing United States search engine. Personalized search is one of the […]
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 […]
Rollyo, Create Your Own Custom Search Engine
When it comes to searching for information, I prefer results from a handful of trusted websites. Limited the results to select web properties only offers several advantages over the standard catch-all approach […]
Do Not Trust Google Instant Previews Security Wise
For a few months now Instant Previews has been part of the Google search engine. The feature is triggered with a click on one of the magnifying glasses displayed on search results […]
Highlight Favorite Domains In Search Results
When I search on the Internet in search engines like Google or Bing I tend to favor results from domains that I trust. If I had to chose between a post on […]
Facebook Search: How To Make The Most Of It
Facebook's website has a search form at the top of every page that users of the social network site may use to find friends, pages of interest, apps or games, posts by […]
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 […]
GooFind, Download Files Using Google
One of the very first articles on this site was about how to find files using Google. It is still possible to use specific advanced search parameters to find files you are […]
Bing And Facebook Merge Search And Social
Mashups. Everyone seems to think that people love mashups. Not really sure where this came from but we have to live with the consequences. Facebook and the Bing search engine yesterday announced […]
Bing Up, Yahoo And Google Down
The latest US search engine market share statistics compiled by Nielsen have been released and they confirm a trend that we have predicted for some time now. Microsoft's Bing search engine managed […]
