Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Dec 9, 2009, 1:48 pm
Google Quick Scroll is a Google Chrome extension that helps you find the best matches for your query when you click on a Google search result. "Quick Scroll may appear on the bottom-right corner of t...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Dec 9, 2009, 10:59 am
Google Labs launched an interesting service in partnership with New York Times and Washington Post: Living Stories. The goal is to change the way you interact with news online and to read news stories...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Dec 9, 2009, 7:14 am
Google made it easier to export all your documents, spreadsheets, presentations and PDFs from Google Docs: 1. right-click on one of the files from the docs list and select "Export" 2. check "export ...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Dec 9, 2009, 6:48 am
Google Docs started to sort search results by relevance. Until now, search results were sorted by the last modified date. "This improvement to search within Docs also includes automatic stemming and ...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Dec 8, 2009, 4:55 pm
Google launched an extensions gallery for Google Chrome and added support for extensions in Chrome 4 Beta (Windows and Linux only). Google also released the first beta version of Chrome for Mac, but i...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Dec 7, 2009, 2:55 pm
... latest results to show the freshest information right on the search results page. Try searching for your favorite TV ... explains Google. Here's an example of real-time search results page ...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Dec 5, 2009, 5:24 pm
Google revealed some details about an upcoming mobile application that lets you upload photos and returns relevant information. Google is working on Google Visual Search, a mobile application that let...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Dec 5, 2009, 4:59 pm
Google usually displays the search results in less than a second. so you rarely have to wait to see the results. Translated search, the most recent feature added to the search options sidebar, is a ra...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Dec 4, 2009, 2:06 pm
Google buys yet another company: AppJet, the start-up that created EtherPad, an innovative online word processor. The EtherPad team, that includes three former Googlers, will join the Google Wave team...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Dec 4, 2009, 10:51 am
If you don't like the fade-in animation from Google's homepage and you want the old homepage, one option is to disable JavaScript. Google will no longer hide navigation elements, but you won&#...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Dec 4, 2009, 8:39 am
If your query includes a single word or it's an expression, Google links to the definition in the blue bar that mentions the number of results. Initially, Google linked to dictionary.com, then it ...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Dec 4, 2009, 4:33 am
Google launched a DNS resolving service called Google Public DNS that uses Google's infrastructure to improve page loading time. A DNS resolver converts domain names into IP addresses and this pro...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Dec 4, 2009, 3:21 am
Google Translated Search was launched as a Google Translate feature that helped you search in other languages. Google automated several steps that made it difficult to find information written in a la...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Dec 3, 2009, 5:51 am
Feather is a new feature from YouTube Labs. The goal is "to serve YouTube video watch pages with the lowest latency possible. It achieves this by severely limiting the features available to the viewer...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Dec 2, 2009, 5:58 pm
Google has been testing a new version of its homepage that hides the navigational elements until you use the mouse. Most people visit Google's homepage to search the Web, so the links to other Goo...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Dec 2, 2009, 7:14 am
If you like to use rich formatting when you compose Gmail's messages, but the default text style is too boring, you can change it. Go to Gmail Labs, enable "Default Text Styling" and change the st...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Dec 1, 2009, 6:03 pm
... closing the tag to ensure "that the tracking code is executed as the last element of the DOM". Otherwise, the script ... subsequent content from rendering." Here's the new code for basic...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Dec 1, 2009, 1:30 pm
Google and other search engines publish every year a list of the most popular searches, but it's not always clear how it's compiled. This year, Google explained the methodology: "To compile t...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Nov 27, 2009, 1:40 pm
Google Calendar tests a new feature that lets you view your calendar and the calendars of your guests when you create a new event. "Sneak preview" can be enabled when you click on "create event". "We...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Nov 26, 2009, 1:54 pm
If you are logged in to a Google account and you promote a search result using the SearchWiki icons, the web page is automatically saved to Google Bookmarks. For some reason, Google labels the web pag...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Nov 24, 2009, 2:40 pm
If you'd like to see a favicon next to each Google Reader subscription, you can now add this feature: go to the settings page and check "Show favicons for subscriptions". Another way to enable the...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Nov 24, 2009, 1:00 pm
Many Gmail interfaces lack a basic feature: adding attachments. You can't add attachments if you use Gmail's mobile app, the mobile version of Gmail, iGoogle's Gmail gadget or if you used ...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Nov 23, 2009, 10:49 am
Google didn't do a good job at explaining the intended use of Chrome OS and many people wondered if Google's operating system is an alternative to Windows. The goal is to build "an operating s...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Nov 19, 2009, 6:24 pm
YouTube added a feature that generates video captions. "We've combined Google's automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology with the YouTube caption system to offer automatic captions, or au...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Nov 19, 2009, 11:08 am
Google will announce more information about Chrome OS at a press event that starts at 10:00am PST. Google will offer "an update on Google Chrome OS and provide at the work that has been done thus far,...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Nov 18, 2009, 4:29 pm
For many people web addresses aren't very useful and that's why they continue to use their favorite search engine to search for instead of typing the obvious web addresses. Some web sites use...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Nov 18, 2009, 4:02 pm
Search Engine Roundtable spotted a new flavor of Google AdSense ads: featured ads. The ads include a yellow star similar to the one used for bookmarks in Google Toolbar, Firefox and Google Chrome. Ac...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Nov 17, 2009, 2:56 pm
Google released a new Google Labs experiment related to image search: Google Image Swirl. The service "organizes image search results based on their visual and semantic similarities and presents them ...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Nov 16, 2009, 5:48 pm
When Google Chrome launched, many people complained that the browser didn't detect feeds. Apparently, this feature has been implemented in an extension that will come preinstalled in Google Chrome...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Nov 16, 2009, 4:33 pm
Google Translate has a new design and some new features. The service translates your text as you type, so you no longer have to click on "Translate" every time you edit the text. Getting real-time fee...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Nov 14, 2009, 2:15 pm
If you're curious to see which web pages are voted in SearchWiki at the moment, add the SearchWiki Live Stream gadget to iGoogle. The canvas view shows the query that triggered each search results...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Nov 12, 2009, 5:20 pm
Google confirms the acquisition of Gizmo5, a proprietary SIP soft phone. "The Gizmo5 network uses open standards for call management, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and Extensible Messaging and Pre...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Nov 12, 2009, 4:41 pm
Google's document viewer has a better search feature: you no longer have to manually locate the matches in the document. After performing a search, press Enter repeatedly to find the matches or cl...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Nov 11, 2009, 11:47 am
As previously anticipated, Google added a feature that lets you lock SafeSearch filtering. Google says that "SafeSearch screens for sites that contain explicit sexual content and deletes them from you...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Nov 11, 2009, 9:26 am
Google Latitude added two new applications that make location tracking more useful: history and alerts. Google Latitude History stores your locations and lets you visualize them on a map. You can rem...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Nov 11, 2009, 8:30 am
Flemming Steffensen found an undocumented trick that lets you customize a Google Docs form by injecting CSS. Let's assume that the URL of your form is: https://spreadsheets.google.com/embeddedf...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Nov 11, 2009, 8:09 am
Some smart Google engineers decided that it's time to address the limitations of C and C++ by designing a new programming language: Go. Go was born out of frustration with existing languages and ...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Nov 11, 2009, 2:53 am
Google updated the pricing for the additional storage you can buy in Gmail and Picasa Web Albums: $0.25 per GB per year. Storage Price (per year) 20 GB $5 80 GB $20 200 GB $50 400 ...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Nov 10, 2009, 4:51 am
Google Calendar's gallery of interesting calendars lets you add some useful features: show week numbers, the day of the week, sunrise and sunset time for your location. Some of these features sho...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Nov 9, 2009, 4:05 pm
Google acquired AdMob, a mobile ad company well-known for its innovative solutions to monetize iPhone apps and iPhone-optimized web sites. "AdMob is the world's largest mobile advertising marketpl...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Nov 9, 2009, 5:50 am
A Google Docs error message has an interesting suggestion: "If you are running a Google Docs experiment, turn it off." Google Docs will probably add a Labs section with experimental features, much l...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Nov 7, 2009, 3:41 am
Gmail Chat, the web-based version of Google Talk, added last year voice and video chat. The feature is now available in iGoogle and orkut, but it will probably be added to other Google services, as we...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Nov 6, 2009, 2:39 pm
Google received many complaints that Google Toolbar is not available for Chrome, so it created a page meant to convince users that "many Toolbar features are already built right into Google Chrome". ...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Nov 4, 2009, 1:37 pm
Google Dashboard is a new service that shows a summary of the data stored with a Google account. You'll soon find a link to Google Dashboard in the "personal settings" of the "my account" page. T...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Nov 4, 2009, 7:03 am
Google News added a directory for custom sections and an easy way to create your own custom sections. Until now, the only way to add a section to Google News was to perform a search and click on "crea...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Nov 4, 2009, 5:40 am
... a folder. "Lots of users still complain that Chrome does not support Greasemonkey user scripts. Even though we have had the infrastructure in ... the latest Chromium builds, but it will soon b...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Nov 3, 2009, 2:32 am
Google Related Links is a new Google Labs service that lets you add a list of related web pages and searches to your site. Unlike the homonymous service released by Google in 2006, the new Related Lin...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Nov 2, 2009, 6:01 pm
Google added a new option to the web search toolbelt: page previews. If you click on "Show options" and select "Page previews" after performing a search, Google will show a longer snippet and a thumbn...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Oct 29, 2009, 3:48 pm
TechFlash posted a tour of Google's new campus from Kirkland. "The company has 400 employees at the campus, brought together from two previous locations in the city. Among the features of the camp...
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Richard Knight posted an article on Society for Marriage and Lasting Relationships - Oct 29, 2009, 2:42 pm
If you don't want to install Google Toolbar to use Sidewiki or if Google Toolbar is not available for your favorite browser (Opera, Safari, Chrome), you can now use a bookmarklet. It doesn't n...
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