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The Tutor

Google Caffeine Bookmarklet

If you are a Google junkie like I am, you’ve likely been playing with their new test engine codenamed Caffeine that they announced yesterday. When comparing searches ...

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Peter Jalbert

Google Quick Search Box available With Google Toolbar 6

Remember the Quicksilver-like Google Quick Search Box for the Mac OS X that blew me away a few weeks ago? Now you can get the same ...

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Peter Jalbert

Get instant search results with Google Quick Search Box for Mac OS X

If you’re on a Mac, and you’re crazy about Quicksilver and would like to see Google work like Quicksilver, then Google Quick Search Box is for ...

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Christine Buske

Google SearchWiki: Toy or Trash?

Anyone who has ever disagreed with Google Search results can now, for their own use, manipulate the order in which links are presented with SearchWiki. Yes, ...

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Jonathan Dingman

Google Commemorates René François Ghislain Magritte

Google will often celebrate or commemorate the birth, death, or some type of holiday for various people, often an artist. Today, Google is commemorating the birth of ...

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Jonathan Dingman

Google to Zombies — No brains for you!

You may know this already, but Google certainly does have a sense of humor. The robots.txt file is a way to direct search engine robots on what ...

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Phil Glockner

For iTunes URLs, You Can Use Google

An effective way to search for specially-formatted Apple iTunes Store web addresses in Google search. AKPC_IDS += "1891,";

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Phil Glockner

How To Use Firefox to Quickly Search In Google

How to use Firefox search keywords to make searching from the location bar simple. AKPC_IDS += "1686,";

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Mark O'Neill

Google starts indexing whois domain information

Google is beginning to ramp up its information indexing efforts to the point where nothing and no-one is safe. In addition to making some headway ...

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Peter Jalbert

Google the Beach

I really love how Google is future-proofing their tools. From the start they must have thought of how international the web’s audience will be that ...

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Peter Jalbert

Quick Search Tip: Booking Flights Online

Here’s a quick Google search tip for frequent flyers. If you’re fond of booking your flights online rather than calling up a travel agent to do ...

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Mark O'Neill

Two Google search tricks for international business

With Google being my search engine of choice, I am always looking for more ways for the search engine to make my life easier.    Today I ...

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Peter Jalbert

Removing Your Content From Google’s Cache

Google’s cache can be a very useful tool if you encounter any of the following problems with the sites linked in a search result: The site has ...

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Mark O'Neill

Disabling Google’s “Lucky” search in Mozilla Firefox

One of the things I love about Mozilla Firefox is the ability to perform Google keyword searches from the address bar.    But the intensely annoying part ...

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Mark O'Neill

Check flight times on Google

Google has just announced a new feature in time for the holidays – but I was under the impression that the feature already existed. It seems that ...

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Mark O'Neill

Google imitates AOL – flattery or flop-in-waiting?

I was alerted to this one by Valleywag (I personally don’t see it on my screen yet). Google is apparently imitating a failed ...

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Mark O'Neill

Experiment with Google’s alternate search views

Some blogs have been recently talking about switching on Google keyword suggestions. But Google Labs has an even better experiment in the works – alternate ...

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Mark O'Neill

Setting a website geographic location in Google Webmaster Tools

If you own a website that is reliant on attracting local visitors then until now, there was no easy way to specify a specific geographic location ...

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Mark O'Neill

Dressing up the Google page to provide more search information

After virtually a decade delivering online search results, the sparse looking Google page is well known to all. But with a few Firefox extensions, ...

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Mark O'Neill

Is Google’s dominance in search under threat from the “upstarts”?

By Mark O’Neill An article in Newsweek magazine suggests that Google’s position at the top of the search engines could be under serious threat by competitors, including ...

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Peter Jalbert

Testing New Features of Google in Google Experimental

One of Google’s biggest reasons for success is that it has able to redefine search during a time when everybody thought that search is a solved ...

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The Tutor

Killer guide to the robots meta tag

Joost over at his SEO blog has a great guide to the robots meta tag today, everything you need is there on one short page. Check ...

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Peter Jalbert

Search in Google Reader

It’s probably one of the most requested feature for the Google Reader, and the lack of it has really kept users from fully using the Google ...

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Peter Jalbert

Google Book Search Adds New Features

Google’s stated vision is to organize the world’s information. As big and idealistic this goal maybe, the company has gone to great lengths in trying to ...

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Peter Jalbert

Google News Tutorial: Search

While the common use case in News reading assumes a passive user/reader simply browsing all the available news for that day, there are people on some ...

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