I began GoogleTutor.com with a great idea-to provide practical, useful information for everyday users of Google. I knew that most people had no idea of what they could do with Google. The site was an instant success, receiving up to 5,000 unique visitors a day.
Some email providers support something called "plus" addressing. Gmail is one of them. It's not a well-known feature; in fact, I don't believe it is even documented in the Gmail help pages.
I was reading the latest entry of the Google Blog (Google's official blog) this morning, and they mention a search technique that, while already covered here, I thought it might be worthwhile going over again. It's regarding the Site Search (site:) operator, and how it can be used to narrow your search to top level internet domains (.com, .net, .edu, .gov, etc.).
Sometimes I don't understand Google. At times they are quite brilliant, and other times they act like some high school kids with a web site.
Porn, porn everywhere. I know that excites a lot of people, but it doesn't excite us parents when search engines make it so easy to find. Of the big search engines, there is nothing as bad as Yahoo Video Search.
Our previous article, What the Heck is Google Print?, explained what Google Print is and how to use it. At that time, you had to search for books among everything else from within the regular Google Search interface.
Google has many interesting ways that it handles numbers. We've already discussed how it treats specialized numbers in our article, Specialized Number Search.
There is an overlooked search preference that I have changed to improve my Google searching. You'll find it in the Preferences settings that you can get to from nearly any Google search page.
Ahding.com has created a timely hack for everyone weary of paying high gas prices. His hack is called Cheap Gas and utilizes Google Maps and GasBuddy to create a display of gas prices and map locations for an area.
Add Google Suggest to the Google homepage; Remove Ads from Google; Auto-save emails in Gmail, while you type; Gmail delete button, to easily delete messages; Make all "mailto:" links point to Gmail...