Google Docs now provides a new function for spreadsheets called importRange. This will import the data from a Google Docs spreadsheet you saved into another Google docs’s spreadsheet. For instance, my first spreadsheet has the URL
spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=
pvm6FPiylicLb_2cwmpkHfw&hl=en
In it, I can easily define a range named “PeopleAges” to make [...]

Recently some of us has noticed that For certain PDF files (the ones that are created using Acrobat Reader), Google shows information such as the author in results now, like in this search. But later we were told that this happens not just on PDF document, but on other pages as well, like HTML, as [...]

Do you know that you can insert a table of contents into a Google Docs document by hacking some existing, but non-officially released code? just paste the following:
javascript:mr(“TocSettings”);
.. into the browser’s address bar when in are inside your Google Docs document and hit Enter in your keyboard. If you used headlines in the document, they [...]

Google has launched a new Google Trends like service called Google Insights for Search.
The service allows you to specify a couple of terms and let Google show you the search volume for these mapped over time (from 2004 to this year), with search frequencies displayed on a world heat map.
Does it sound like just [...]

Google News has started to present a category dedicated to the Olympics. Google news now contains maximum news coverage from traditional news sources as well as several multi-author blogs, an Olympic medals overview, and schedules for the upcoming events. However the Chinese version of Google News is partly censored by Google.

The YouTube Olympics channel is only available in some countries, being geo-IP-banned elsewhere. “The IOC’s [International Olympic Committee] Channel will be accessible in territories where digital VOD [video on demand] rights have not been sold or have been acquired on a non-exclusive basis,” according to the press release.
Since NBC currently has the Olympics digital video-on-demand [...]

As Digital Inspiration reported, Google on their Page Creator About page says:
“We are no longer accepting new sign-ups for Page Creator because we have shifted our focus to developing Google Sites, which offers many of the capabilities of Page Creator along with new features like site-level navigation, site-level headers, control over who can see and [...]

Search Engine Land has recently reported that Google has now started to show a onebox for certain Olympics-related queries, like tennis olympics or taekwondo olympics.
This seem to only work in the whole US and China but not from other countries which those terms are search in Google. In the onebox, you’ll see a nice [...]

Google once wrote on their blog that their “ads are created and managed under the exact same guidelines, principles, practices and algorithms as the ads of any other advertiser”; likewise, Google added, they “use the very same tools and account interface.”
Well many times they made special ‘cases’ for themselves and changed their statements. And [...]

Google has recently came up with a dedicated Music search site for China – and China only, unless you’re using a proxy to access it. Some people have discovered traces of this a while ago, and the Wall Street Journal also covered Google’s plans before.
In China music searching via the web is one of [...]