Hmm…  I wonder who’s birthday it is today?  If you go to Google you will quickly find out!  Pac Man turns 30 today. If you are really cool (like us) you will notice that the Google logo has changed in support of this occasion.

If you use your arrow keys you will even be able to [...]

Google has never been a company to shy away from improvement. Be it an online utility like Google Docs to fun stuff on your iGoogle Home page with gadgets.
Now here is a spring surprise for all of us. Google has come up with a new look for its homepage. If you look closely at it you [...]

Here is good news for non-English speaking searchers who use Google. Did you ever want to search for something on Google in your own language? Google has rolled out an easier way to do this. Google has integrated  a new feature that uses virtual keyboards in Google Search.
This new feature allows you to formulate search queries in [...]

With the influx of emails these days, it is getting harder and harder to manage the massive amounts of email messages that we get. On the average day, I get hundreds of emails. I maintain 3 email accounts. My business email, my personal email and an account that I use to register stuff that I [...]

The reigning search engine giant Google has added another feather to its cap with the purchase of UK based mobile visual search start up Plink. This news was officially announced through Plink’s blog, but the acquisition amounts were not disclosed anywhere so far. This may be Google’s first ever acquisition in the UK. Once again the [...]

Google Maps recently added tools from Google Labs to the top right menu, allowing users to experiment with a variety of image and mapping extensions that add to the user experience. From zooming tools to games to features that reduce the frustration of searches that show no results, some are quite useful.
In the top right [...]

We’ve talked about Google Street View launching in Canada twice on this blog – in October of last year when Street View went live in the Greater Toronto Area and the Golden Horseshoe, and in December when I discussed how Google expanded the service to 9 additional Canadian cities.
It seems that Google quietly expanded [...]

A few months ago, Google released it’s ‘Street View’ tool in Canada, allowing users 360 degree views of neighbours and streets in various locations across Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver.
Today, the search engine giant released nine more cities in to Street View across Canada. It is now possible to view street level images of Edmonton, Saskatoon, [...]

Toronto Canada Now Open To The World In Google Street View!
In early 2009 Google began its expeditious prowl of the streets of the Greater Toronto area, including areas like Hamilton, Oakville, Markham, Oshawa and many other regions across Ontario.  The goal of gathering the worlds information was taken to a whole new level with [...]

Google Celebrating The Birth Of The Barcode Patent
Those visiting Google today may be wondering why instead of seeing Google it shows an image of a bar code?  Not unlike many of the changes we see to the Google logo, today Google is celebrating the birthday of the invention of the bar code. 

Patented October 7 1952, [...]

Now you can make voice calls directly from Twitter. Jajah a third party service will be launching this feature today September 17′ 2009. It is still in the beta stages but is expected to get quite popular.
Twitter users can perform a two-way voice chat by typing @call @twitterID.

Microsoft has introduced a new enhancement called ’Visual Search’ to Bing. Tagged with a beta label, this new feature is available to the US audience only. Microsoft has announced the launch of ‘Visual Search’ at the prestigious Techcrunch50 Conference in San Francisco. You can check it out either by visiting www.bing.com/visualsearch or access it directly from [...]

Google has continued applying cosmetic makeovers on a number of its search properties this past week. So I thought I would take some time to look at how some of these changes work.
1. Google Changes Text, Image & Text Box Size of Homepage
The most notable change being the change to the search field and text [...]

Google has recently introduced a suite of 19 gadgets to its iGoogle homepage aimed with the twin objective of giving the user, a better visual experience with its open social platform and also to be acknowledged as the new social networking hub on par with the likes of Facebook and Twitter.
iGoogle Makes A Move To [...]

A couple of months back, we announced the launch of Microsoft’s Bing Search Engine and a couple weeks ago followed it up with a primer on SEO for Bing.
So far I have been fairly impressed with Bing. Results are fairly relevant and in particular, i like all the new features added.  It seems Microsoft is pushing [...]