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Install Google Dictionary in Google Chrome

February 28, 2010 by dennis

Now a days we like a lot of things to be inbuilt. What about a inbuilt dictionary on your browser? Just double click on the word you want to know the meaning, zoom..the meaning comes up! This miracle is possible in Google Chrome installed with the Google Dictionary Extension.

The installation of Google Dictionary is very easy. It is just and extension in Google Chrome and takes very less time to install.

See the steps below:

Step 1: Go to the Google Dictionary Extension link below from your Chrome Browser:

To Download Click Here

Step 2: Click on the Install Button. Click Install again to confirm. That is it, is installed. You can see the installation confirmation.

Now, while visit any website and if you find any word which you want to know the definition. Just double click on it. The meaning will be displayed. If you want to know more, click on More>>

By default the settings will be to display the definition on double clicking the word. if you want to change the settings to the language see the steps below:

Go to Settings Tab and select Extensions.

Click on options button.

Set the settings as you want.

This extension is a very useful one. You don’t even have to open the online or offline dictionary and search for the words. What you have to do is just double click.

Google Adds Local Search Filtering

March 1, 2010February 28, 2010 by bharath

Google has finally launched the Local search results, which the search engine giant had already launched the similar local search feature as “Near me now” for high-end Smartphones sometime back.

The options is available in the “Search Options panel” that you can find by clicking (see the pic below)

The results will be shown based on your “default location”, that Google decides most of the time based on your internet IP address.

But you can also choose custom location to enter particular City, state name etc.

Also, to get familiar with this feature, try these examples quoted in Google official blog:

>>[things to do on st. patrick’s day] – In the Minneapolis region
>>[food blogs] – Near you
>>[farmers market] – Near the city of Ithaca
>>[dmv] – In the same state as Tucson

Note: As of now, it’s working with Google.com domain only, I tested with Google.co.in where I didn’t notice this feature.

Where To Report About Google & Yahoo Search Result Spam ?

February 28, 2010February 27, 2010 by bharath

Recently I was searching for a movie review in Google and was astonished to see the Google search results page complete filled with spam results:

Case Study:

Check the below picture for this query in Google.

The top 8 results shown here are spam results.Look at the pattern of the title page carefully, you can easily make out that these are spam results.

Dare to click any of those results? I did, and I was immediately redirected to another webpage that has no connection with what I was searching, this is definitely cloaking right?

Apart from not giving the desired WebPages that I was looking for, Google giving me pages that are compromising Google index to spam the most popular searches happening at a particular time.Why is the big brother Google pretty calm on this and feeding them, it shouldn’t be doing this right?

Well, if you just think like that and leave it without reporting, may be we are encouraging such spammers indirectly to grow bigger and bigger so much so that they eat entire Google search results space on your browser.

How I Can Report Spam in Google Search Results?

Search engines do look into the spam reports submitted by the users, as they take this kind of spamming very seriously.You can report to Google about spam in search results from the below links:

>> If you have a Google Webmaster Tools account, you can report from HERE.

>> If you haven’t got a Google Webmaster tools account, you can still report to Google from here.

Yahoo:

Report Spam in Yahoo Search results here

But in this particular case, virtually 80% of the top 10 results contain spam (above screen shot).No one in this world will have the patience to report if there are that many spam results in one page.Well, Google has to think about this particular issue.

Reopen or Recover Recently Closed Tabs in Google Chrome

February 25, 2010 by dennis

Google Chrome is a very fast and light browser.

chrome logo

It has many advantages. But it lacks one of the most basic feature. That is, if you accidentally click the close button with multiple tabs open, Google Chrome will not prompt you to verify your action. But other browsers like Mozilla and Internet explorer asks once more as shown below.

mozilla confirmation

Now, in order to compensate this feature, Google Chrome allows you to open the last closed tab or Window once again easily.

So if you accidentally or unintentionally close your tab or the whole Chrome browser, you can simply reopen what you want easily.

This can be done in three ways:

1 Choose what you want to open:

Open Google Chrome. You can see the recently closed tabs section below the most visited pages thumbnail. Choose the one you want to open.

2 If you have closed the whole window and you want to reopen all the tabs at once then open Chrome, right click on the window and select Reopen Closed Tab(s) or Reopen Closed Window(s) as shown below:

3. By Using the shortcut key (For lazy people like us):

Open Chrome And press

Ctrl + Shift + T

That’s it, you don’t need to worry about your closed tabs anymore and use Chrome as freely as you want with no worries.

Google Responds Again Over Google Buzz Privacy Concerns

February 15, 2010 by bharath

Well, Google has responded for the second time in the week of the launch of Buzz over the continuous increase in concerns regarding the privacy of the users using Google Buzz .

Google has taken some steps to address these main concerns (if not all), over the Buzz, adding some settings to it.

It’s very rare that see hear the word “sorry” from Google, like this one:

We quickly realized that we didn’t get everything quite right. We’re very sorry for the concern we’ve caused and have been working hard ever since to improve things based on your feedback.

There have been mainly 3 updates in Google Buzz settings from Google based on the user feedback.

#1 No auto-following only auto-suggesting: Google has disabled auto-following in Buzz, you will see auto-suggestions suggesting people to follow instead.

Google Buzz follow suggestions techrena.net

#2 Buzz will not connect your public Picasa Web Albums and Google reader shared items automatically.

#3 Disable Buzz completely: Google has added a link under settings in Gmail tthat allows you to hide, or completely disable Buzz from Gmail

Hide Or Completely Disable Google Buzz In Your Gmail

February 15, 2010February 14, 2010 by bharath

Well, it seems Google is hearing all those privacy concerns raised all over the web by the users that made Google to respond quickly and yesterday they have updated Google Buzz with an option to completely disable or turnoff it from your Gmail account.

Just follow these steps to know how to do this:

Go to the bottom of your Gmail page, i.e navigate to the region that is located below your email messages appears.
You’ll find options like “Last account activity”, “Gmail view” etc.
Under “Gmail view”, locate “turn off buzz” link and clicking on that one will relaod your Gmail but without Buzz

Turnoff Google Buzz

There’s another way you can do it (I doubt that this setting is not available to all users right now)

Go to seetings

Locate “Buzz” tab under settings, under this tab you will find an option “Disable Google Buzz Completely” also you have option to “Hide Google Buzz in Gmail”

Or in some accounts, this show/hide option may be located here:

Extension Focus: Google Buzz Updates in Google Chrome

February 12, 2010 by bharath

Google Buzz was launched a couple of days ago, and many Gmail users all over the world are still in the process of exploring the various features of it.

And the app developers are busy developing Buzz-based applications just like we are flooded with lots of Twitter apps ever since its launch.

If you have become a fan of Google Buzz and want to have easy access to it, well here’s some good news for you.If you are using Google Chrome, you can make use of the extension called “Chrome Buzz” from the Google chrome extension gallery.

When you install this, you can see all your buzz notifications right from an icon that’ll be placed next to the address bar in Google Chrome.Well, you can just read the buzz updates, but there’s no way you can comment on the updates, make a note.

Google To Experiment Fiber Network For Providing High Speed Internet In US

February 11, 2010 by bharath

Google Turns ISP

Google has revealed its plans to setup and test ultra high speed broadband networks in one or more trial locations across the United States.

Google’s fiber-to-the-home connection could offer ultra high speed data transfer up to 1Gbps, 100 times faster than the average access speeds that the Americans currently have.

Initially the service would be offered on a test basis at a competitive price to 50,000 to 500,000 people across the US.

Google will keep collecting responses from various communities over this project till March 26, 2010 and will announce the implementation details of this fiber networking project.

google logo small google fiber house

Google has listed the following three things as their goals that they are aiming through this project:

Next generation apps: Enabling developers to develop bandwidth-intensive killer apps
New deployment techniques: Testing new ways to build fiber networks
Openness and choice : Operating an “open access” network and let the users have the choice of multiple service providers

I’m jealous of the lucky US people who manage to get Google fiber-to-the-home connection.When India is still struggling with the implementation of 3G services to offer Mbps speeds, Google is thinking of Gbps :(.

[To keep up with 3G rollout in India here’s the latest info: Well, TRAI is considering 4G as well, good news]

What are you planning to doo with a 1Gbps internet connection at home? leave comments..

No Google Buzz Yet? Check How It Works Even Before It Comes To You

February 12, 2010February 10, 2010 by bharath

Google Buzz has just been announced and it’s only available to few unlucky [:)] fellows initially.But if you are curious to know more about it or to use it before you could really get it into your Gmail, well there is a way for you, folks.

Trick here is although Google buzz is not available for all users at present, Google buzz layer by default has been activated to all the users.That means when you log in using your iPhone to Google Buzz page, you can actually see the Buzz layer where you can post updates and read updates from your followers and find more people to follow.So we are now going to spoof our User Agent to be as ‘iPhone’ so that we can see the Google Buzz mobile features in our big desktop screen.

STEPS:

Step 1: Go get a copy of Apple Safari browser and install it on your PC.

Step 2: Open Safari, open Settings by clicking on the ‘gear’ icon on the right most corner of the window and click preferences.

Preferences in Apple Safari

Step 3: Preferences window will be opened up.Go the ‘Advacned’ tab in the window and check “Show Develop menu in menu bar” option.Click ok and close the Preferences window.

Step 4: Navigate to “Develop” menu bar in your Safari broswer and under ‘User Agent’, select Mobile Safari 3.1.2 (iPhone or iPod touch)

Step 5: Go to the address bar and type buzz.google.com and you’ll see your Google buzz page similar to the one shown below.

Please note that “Nearby” in Google Buzz doesn’t work here as it works in an GPS enabled phone.

Via

Google Buzz : Google’s One More Attempt @ Social Media

April 17, 2011February 10, 2010 by bharath

I just woke up this morning and was amazed to see lot of tweeple tweeting about ‘Google Buzz’.The most recent Wave is yet to be received well by people, then what’s all this buzz about ‘Google Buzz’, it was my initial thought.

But you know, my big brother Google is crazy always, keeps giving me surprises every now and then and I have had lot of them in the recent past.Launch of Google Chrome, Andriod, Chrome OS, Wave, Nexus One are only some items of the big list.

Google officially announced Google Buzz, a social networking/ sharing tool built right inside the Gmail.So you need not signup for it again like as you do for Orkut.If it’s enabled for you, you’ll find it inside your Gmail, within the Gmail labels section.

Google Buzz Logo

Google Buzz Official website: http://buzz.google.com/

Google buzz features in short:

Lets you automatically follow people that you chat or email most
Replies to your posts will be delivered to your Gmail inbox with ‘real time comments’ enabled
You can connect with other Social sites like Picasa, Flickr, Google Reader, and Twitter.
Buzz on your mobile

The most sensible feature according to me is Google buzz on mobile, oh yeah !! I have already checked it out on iPhone and it’s really looks cool on it.If your phone has GPS, then you can’t miss this one as it shows updates from people nearer to you.

How would it help you, anyway?

Consider a situation that you are driving in your car and there’s a big traffic jam just some distance away from you.You can get this info from this updates from people nearby section (What people are saying in the area).

I think we need to explore it well, before coming to any conclusion that it’s another #Fail.As always, this time to, they have added some intro video of Google buzz, go check it out, if you have patience:

BTW, have similar name to one of their services called Yahoo Buzz, but it’s about just content sharing.And more interesting is that Yahoo has a similar service called Yahoo Updates (from last year) about which hardly anyone of us is aware.Google is strategic announcing Buzz just days before the ‘V-Day’ during which we can expect lot of social media/sharing activity from the youth section of the worldwide internet users.

If anyone got access to Buzz in their Gmail, leave a comment here about your experience with it.Did you like it?