Google today announced that they will start to roll out Google Suggest as a default feature for the Google.com homepage over the next week. So for example, when you enter “presid” with Suggest, below the search box choices like “presidential polls, “presidential election” and more will pop up, to be selected and then searched for [...]

Hittery.com has recently released a whole bunch of specialized search engines as widgets, and you can easily customize their dashboard by moving, removing, or adding specific search engines. It’s very similar like iGoogle but for search engine widgets only, and taking the opposite approach to “universal search” approach by Google, which aims to deliver relevant [...]

Google’s popular blogging service Blogger, acquired in 2003 and pretty slow in coming up with new features; but recently it seems like they care catching up more quickly and has rolled out a new feature called “reactions.” This is a quick user poll widget, available if you are currently using Google Blogger’s experimental version, that [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

AOL has been extremely busy lately as they are building on their renewed focus on a business model built around pure online advertising and social media.
First up, AOL is shedding Tacoda and folding it into Ad.com which is a brand new part of AOL’s ad division. The division recently began integrating Tacoda’s behavioral targeting across [...]

Recently both Reddit and Digg has launched their new mobile sites at http://m.reddit.com and http://m.digg.com respectively.

With the rising popularity of internet access and other social media websites on hand held devices like Iphone; a mobile version of the popular websites is a must have.
The micro blogging tool, Twitter also has a mobile version at http://m.twitter.com.

And [...]

Google’s web based email system Gmail has an recently added a brand new filter function named “Never send it to Spam”. Ticking this option will make sure that certain types of email – with the special criteria you define, like by entering your friend’s name in the “From” field – will not be accidentally [...]

A brand new niche specific search engine called ChiefMall has launched, which allows users to search for contractors. The search engine indexes a fairly large corpus of over 420 000 contractors with advanced features such as geocoding and live indexing. A very important aspect of the site is that users can not only search for [...]

Google Knol has finally launched after seven months since it was first announced.
It did take google a while to populate the site with useful, relevant and interesting content from its beta authors to make Knol appealing to the general users. And so it did. Knol, currently has tons of “authoritative” articles and the site certainly [...]