Mute conversation with Gmail keyboard shortcut "m" so message is immediately removed from the Inbox view. All future messages (w/similar subject line) are archived automatically. To find, search using operator - is:muted
URL to search Google minus Adsense/Adwords ads: google.com/search?output=googleabout. Or add these lines to Windows HOSTS file to block analytics tracking...
Google’s net profit margin last year was 29 percent. Amazon’s was 1.8 percent. Should it pay attention to ventures like Mahalo, the new humanly-edited search engine? Should we, as searchers, pay attention? Why?
You can now create a CSE by simply placing a small piece of tailored code on a page on your site. With that one piece of code, Google's search technology will automatically include in your new CSE all of the sites you have linked to from that page, creati
Suddenly, autonomously, Sterling finds his words turned to numbers! 12 litres in cups...and Google automagically performs the conversion and produces the answer...When was that algorithm born? Why no birth announcement?
Can I be so bold as to suggest that your company's actions stem from sour grapes that you achieved the lowest ranking amongst the Internet giants? While it is true that we've taken legal action against Google's GMail service...We have no specific axe to g
European Union's data protection advisory group sent a letter to Google this month asking why the company keeps records of user searches for up to two years.
When human-powered search engine Mahalo launched in alpha earlier this month, comparisons to Google Search were inevitable. In reality, Mahalo is to Google like pie is to brussels sprouts. They're both food, but pie is much more fun to eat.
...The search for data that does not yet exist becomes metadata that helps to create the new data it is proleptically about. The instrument created to search the Net replicates the Net over and over. Is the Internet different because of this?
Google just upped its stalker factor by adding face recognition to its image search; by appending a query string onto the end of a search URL ("&imgtype=face"), results contain ONLY faces.
Not wanting to be included in Google's master database of highly personalized profiles, James Thomas decides to go it alone (well, with Yahoo, Ask, other services)...and here's the saga....
"Well, I've been buying Google search terms for about two years now, but the price keeps going up. I have a feeling that my competitors are clicking on my link just to drive my costs up." Gary parked the van to let me out, and dove straight for his Blac
I'm a graduate library student, and I use Google Scholar all the time. My school subscribes to literally hundreds on on-line journals and databases, and it's not possible to search across all those sources in one sweep. Google Scholar gives me a list of r
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open source Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don't speak browser quirks as a second language. Writing dynamic web applications today
August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web By Paul Ford A work of fiction. A Semantic Web scenario. A short feature from a business magazine published in 2009. The Semweb was originally supposed to give the web the “smarts” i
Google Zeitgeist reports on a compilation of searches and queries over time, space, and attention; these snapshots reveal a bit of the human condition. (Zeitgeist: intellectual, moral, cultural climate of an era)
Although it's almost certainly against the terms and conditions, the new feature could theoretically allow users to make free long distance phone calls to any North American number. Since every business listing on Google Maps has the "click-to-call" fe
Google Custom Search Engines (CSE) are designed to be fast and easy to implement, and don’t require any coding, at least for basic features. The Custom Search Engine user interface deliberately keeps things simple, as does the accompanying documentation
All Google's search tools, directories, and many more specialized search utilities, all on one page. Great for focused search...and GREAT for discovery search!