Google has developed quite the reputation for exploring — and then dominating — the unknown. Google Labs has reinvented the way we tackle every mundane task in our daily lives. Whether it’s Google Maps telling us where to go, Gmail helping us to remember messages from years gone by thanks to it’s infinitely searchable archive, [...]
Google is recognized in the tech industry as a rival to Microsoft, but have you ever asked yourself why? Sure, there’s the competition over search but that’s not the only thing that Microsoft is known for, right? In fact, it’s more popularly known as the company behind Windows, the ubiquitous operating system for desktop and [...]
Windows 7 isn’t the only thing that Microsoft is working on. The Redmond software giant is moving away from “Windows Live Search” and its other variations to the more whimsical “Bing”. Microsoft is re-branding its search engine in hopes of making it friendlier and more accessible. Aside from its primary function, Bing also offers other [...]
Google has announced that Google profiles can now be created. This will give users the ability to post their own niche on Google. Once created, the profiles will appear at the bottom of U.S. name-query search pages, making it easier for people to find you. It’s a potential gold mine for those who want to [...]
The entire point of AdSense and similar efforts from Google is to make targeted advertising a reality. One can argue that it already exists thanks to the above-mentioned service, but its reliance on keywords doesn’t guarantee that the ads presented are really what the user is looking for. The movie Minority Report showed a kind [...]
Outlook has this nifty little feature that allows users to embed pictures in email. It’s handy for a lot of things, such as letting icons and small images to be placed in signatures. Google has revealed that Gmail is now able to do the same thing. Just turn on “Inserting images” from the Labs tab [...]
Before Gmail, free web email usually meant getting about 4-5mb of storage without POP3 support. When Google launched its email service, it gave users 1gb and rose from there. That was way back in 2004. If you’ve been using it since then, you probably have more mail in there than any other mailbox you may [...]
Google has announced that Gmail Labs has gone global. It means that all of the experimental features you see under the Labs setting are going to be available in nearly every language. If your language is set to, say, Italian, you’ll see a new page in Settings (or Impostazioni) called Labs. There, you’ll find a [...]
Google has updated its search engine again, intended to yield better results. The improvements are twofold: the first involves displaying a list of related words and phrases based on your original query. Here’s how it works: For example, if you search for [principles of physics], our algorithms understand that “angular momentum,” “special relativity,” “big bang” [...]
Writers often use the word “storm” to convey great change, to mark some event that triggers a great change. In that sense, a storm is definitely building in Canada as a court case in British Columbia involving search engine isoHunt could end up affecting Google and Yahoo! as well. The question before the British Columbia [...]
