Wolfram Alpha is a mathematical computational engine. Now, if it sounds something that just goes with CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, then you should just hold that thought there for a while. Wolfram Alpha sounds terribly complicated, but scratch beneath the surface and you get to see a cool tool that combines knowledge with mathematical computation [...]
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Google and Microsoft are helping us get from Point A to Point B in a jiffy. Earlier, we had seen how Bing Airport Maps was taking us through labyrinths of airports in search of our boarding gate. Now, let’s take a look at how Google Flights Search can help us take the right flight. You [...]
Learning is the key to fixing a lot of problems. I’m a pretty inquisitive guy naturally, and I love finding out about things — how they work, people’s opinions of them, and the such. Throughout my pursuit of knowledge and answers, I’ve stumbled upon some great sites to answer some of my questions, and give [...]
Most of us are usually quite protective about our browsing history and frown upon add-ons that record it without us knowing. But then, there are others who’d like to have their browsing history at their tips all the time so that they could search through it and dig up useful information. Infoaxe is an alternative [...]
If Google is king, the Gmail is probably the best knight at the round table. Gmail has an inbox that can swallow a lifetime’s worth of emails. The last few years of mine have swallowed just over a quarter of the 7 GB inbox limit, and that’s because I usually archive most of my emails. [...]
When it comes to answers and searching for something, Google is probably next to God. Though other search engines (especially Bing) also do rather well, it’s usually the barebones white page we head for. Google may be ‘God’ for us on the online world, but it doesn’t have HIS all-embracing vision. It often needs direction [...]
Windows 7 has a great search function. That said, for a lot of users of Windows who don’t have Windows 7 (or have search indexing turned off), you might be wishing you had a better search function in your computer. In addition to UltraSearch and Everything, which we have previously covered, check out these three [...]
There are times when a picture speaks a thousand words. But you just can’t find the keyword to describe it. Here, Reverse image search comes to the rescue: it’s a special type of search that takes an image instead of a keyword and retrieves similar images. The umbrella term which covers the definition of a [...]
Setting up keyboard shortcuts for opening up your favorite websites is one way of speeding up your browsing. So, searching your favorite websites with keyboard shortcuts should be a turbo boost. So, for managing keywords, Shortmarks sounds like the right tool a power-user should have in his browsing toolkit. Shortmarks (Shortcuts + Bookmarks) gives your [...]
One of the most important features of a computer that I miss in my real life is the ability to search things. If I forget where I kept my bike keys, I have tough time finding it.. I so wish at that time if there was a way to hit Ctrl+F and type “bike keys”. [...]
Blekko is a new entrant in the search engine space, which – according to many – has the potential to give Google a run for its money in the long run. It’s for people looking for more out of web search. Google may have a monopoly on the market and rightfully so, but there is [...]
If you’ve got kids who’ve started to learn computers and the power of Google, I think the first thing that probably worries you is how to stop them from searching for inappropriate content, or how to stop inappropriate content getting displayed as results for harmless search queries. Google does provide a SafeSearch option but it [...]
If you are on the latest version of Internet Explorer (IE) and use the search bar on the top right to search on the web, you know that by default it searches Bing, Microsoft’s own search engine. This article will tell you how you could change it to Google or some other search provider, and [...]
