Do you know that the subtitles of YouTube videos can now be auto-translated! Simply give a small click on the arrow icon in the bottom right of a video and it should show “CC”, which means it has closed captioning; click it to turn it on. Next to the CC icon, you’ll also find an [...]

Gears is the name of Google’s browser tool to help bring offline capabilities (among other things) to web apps. Now, Gmail support for Gears is being rolled out too, in the form of a Gmail Labs experiment. To opt-in to this experiment, provided you have it available already, log-in to Gmail and click Settings -> [...]

Just like Google Video, Google Groups has also extended its index from the Usenet discussion boards and the Google-hosted groups to almost all discussion boards from the web. The search results now show the same nice snippets that were added to the web search few weeks back.

Its great to see that Google’s help forums for [...]

Google Cache Mapper is a cool new Greasemonkey script that enhances Google’s cached pages by adding a virtual scrollbar with all the matches of your keywords. Google cache usually highlights your search terms using different colors and this script shows the position of those respective matches so that you can easily jump to them. The [...]

Google Mobile App for iPhone introduced Voice search features built on a sophisticated platform for text-to-speech and speech recognition using data from GOOG-411 and users can can already get some of its applications in Mobile Google Apps, YouTube and in this updated iPhone app.

It’s kind of hard to say how to download the app: since [...]

Google’s special “Did you mean” feature tends to get obtrusive at times. As you might have noticed, the general trend with Google over the years is that they get more and more fuzzy in interpreting your original query. These days, instead of showing a passive spelling correction or similar but then going on with the [...]

For a short while today, Google classified all results as harmful, several people reported. Basically no matter which URL you saw in the search results… they all had the text “This site may harm your computer” printed above the snippet. Clicking on the result in Google would yield the advisory page usually reserved for malware-infested [...]

If you like Google Chrome’s “New Tab” page, which offers an overview of pages you often visit, but you don’t like to use Chrome… you can use the Google Toolbar 5 for Firefox. When you open a new tab after installing the toolbar, it will open the Chrome-style verview page as shown.
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Google co-launched the Measurement Lab with several tools aimed to help you find out about problems with your internet connection. The currently available, Java-based tools are Glasnost, testing whether BitTorrent is throttled, and a Network Diagnostic Tool to check your connection speed. Other programs, like DiffProbe – to determine whether your internet service provider is [...]

If you try using the “site” operator in a Google web search, you can estimate roughly how many pages Google indexed from a particular domain. Entering site:news.bbc.co.uk into Google China for a long time returned 0 results, along with a self-censorship notice by Google. Now, I’m not sure since when, the same query shows a [...]