If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! When it comes to basic dictionary definition lookup for words, Web users are spoilt for choices. Dictionary.com, Wikipedia, heck Google even provides a definition link after you do a web search and do the word lookup for you [...]

It’s been a while since Google came up with any innovation around their main search offerings (in fact, I can’t remember what has ever changed since I started using Google search other than some re-arrangement of the results page). On one hand it is a testament to how good Google Search is, on the [...]

Chances are, you already know these Google tricks, in which case, it is always good to be reminded what they are and how they work. If you don’t know these tricks, as the title suggests, you HAVE TO know about them by now as they will improve the effectiveness of your searches on Google (and [...]

If you are a keen gadget user and online shopper, then you would be familiar with the experience of Googling your product of interest, checking out the product specification on the manufacturer’s website, trawling through online forums, reading all the online reviews about the product you can find and even having a pick at [...]

It’s not rocket science to work out that search trends can be highly seasonal depending on the year, month or even day and that such trends provide some interesting insights into what’s hot, what’s topical and sometimes what you have missed out during the year !
Google, Yahoo and Ask.com have all revealed their 2007 [...]

During a conversation with a friend the other day, we got onto the topic of searching for email and I was surprised to find that whilst desktop searching technology has really matured significantly over the last couple of years (with a bit of help from more powerful PC !) most people are not really [...]

Google has started a new unbranded search site called SearchMash, where it plans to test user interface ideas without Google’s brand somehow skewing the tests.
SearchMash uses the latest AJAX technology and allows you to perform a search and get Web and image results presented side by side. It’s similar to how A9 has long [...]