Beating your head against the wall trying to find a specific attachment in your overstuffed Gmail inbox? Google just made life easier for you with a newly added keyword search feature for Gmail attachments. Previously, the popular email client only allowed search within text files, but now users can search within files from several leading…
Eager to take Android 4.1 Jelly Bean for a spin? Phones equipped with the next generation OS can do a Barrel Roll, spinning search results 360 degrees around your screen as if they were a barrel rolling down a hill. If you have a phone currently running Android 4.1, you can activate the Easter egg…
Six to 12 pre-selected lucky Latin Grammys fans will participate in a Google Hangout with their favorite stars that will take place on the red carpet during the show on Thursday. Producers from Univision, which will broadcast the show, sifted through social media sites to find a few super fans they have already chosen to…
If you’re a startup looking for the fabled goldmine of a Google exit, here’s the guy you’ll want to meet: David Lawee. The search giant’s VP of Corporate Development, along with CEO Larry Page, signs off on the dozens of acquisitions and acqui-hires made every year, large and small. (One got added to the latter…
Google posted this video explaining the new updates to Gmail in October, but it just went viral recently. Users of the search giant’s email service definitely need to check out all the new features. Read more: http://www.viralviralvideos.com/2011/11/08/google-explains-new-gmail/
In a meeting with Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt in Paris on Monday, France’s President Francois Hollande threatened to put through legislation that would force Google to pay publishers for indexing their stories on Google News unless an alternative agreement was realized by the end of the year, according to a statement released by the…
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1ErgRekjn8?enablejsapi=1&&w=640&h=360] Google has rolled out a pilot program in which advertisers can display relevant search items before a consumer has finished typing a query. Called “Search as You Type,” the initiative is aimed at AdWords advertisers. Google has so far partnered with two brands — Hasbro and Lowe’s — for the program. In the…
It seems Google is trying to bring an end to all the fake “diagnoses” resulting from folks searching for their symptoms and arriving at the wrong conclusions — or at least alleviate the problem. An image posted to Reddit shows a Google search for knee pain, and an option for the user to video chat…
If Google was a guy you met in-person to ask things, this is what it might look like. The College Humor original sketch has been so successful it has spawned two follow-up editions (1st vid 11.2 million views, 2nd vid 12.5 million views, 3rd vid releases last week 1.7 million views). The latest,…
Google just recently released their new social network, google+. Google took the best from Facebook, and Twitter and created a perfectly seamless, streaming social network. Using circles, or groups, you can communicate with specific people like never before. Now there is fair competition in the social network game. It’s getting hot in here. [youtube…
Apple makes nearly half a million dollars for each of its 80,300 employees, by far the most of any company on the list. View this image › Chris Ritter/BuzzFeed A company’s revenue is not unlike a movie’s box office gross — it has nothing to do with profitability. While revenue is the figure that usually…
In case you haven’t already seen promotions strewn across the web, YouTube is hosting their first, official YouTube Comedy Week. To make sure everyone hears about the event, YouTube recruited world famous bodybuilder, actor, and politician Arnold Schwarzenegger to star in this YouTube Comedy Week promotional video. Veteran viewers will recognize quick cameos by YouTubers Kyle Mooney, Nathan Barnatt, and…
The research team at Google Trends recently put together this map that shows the most misspelled words in the US by state. The data is based on the top searched query for “how to spell _________” from January 1st – April 30th, 2017. I love that ‘supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’ was the most searched word in two states.…
Robots, self-driving cars and computer glasses are just the start. Google spends much of its time researching new ideas – “moonshots” that on paper sound almost impossible. View this image › tumblr.com Audacious moonshot products like Google Glass went very quickly from research and development in the secretive Google X skunkworks department to a real…
Just in time for April Fools – Google Maps for 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment Systems (NES). http://www.youtube.com/v/rznYifPHxDg?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0 You can try it on your browser by going to http://maps.google.com and clicking “Quest” in the upper right hand corner of the map. Make sure you also check out the StreetView functionality. via The Daily What Read more: http://dailypicksandflicks.com/2012/04/01/google-maps-8-bit-for-nes-video/
Holiday shopping is about to kick into high gear, and retailers are ramping up efforts to capture sales at multiple touchpoints — not just their stores. Google’s retail team, in fact, is calling this the first “Nonline” shopping season, contending that consumers, accompanied by smartphones wherever they shop, no longer see a divide between online…
Google has a fabled history of asking some ridiculously out-the-box questions and brain teasers at their interviews. In fact, asreportedback in 2011, some of thequestions were so tough that they werebanned by the company. Lewis Lin, a career consultant who specializes in interviewtechniques, compiled a list containing 140 questions some of his clients were asked…
Google, with its fully decked-out media lounge, backstage “Conversation Room” and end-of-the-week epic party, was inarguably the most prominent of the technology companies at the Republican National Convention — a list that also included Facebook and Twitter. That makes sense – Google and YouTube were the official social network and live stream provider of the…
