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Using Google Recipe Search Feature

March 5, 2011 by bharath

Are you having hard time trying to figure out the best recipe that could be cooked with the available items in your kitchen and within limited amount of time to serve your guests who came for a visit to your home? Wish you had a magic wand in your hands? Well, here is it! May not be a wand but just the right tool which could help you in preparing your recipes, the tool is ‘Google Recipe View’, a new search feature currently available for the users in the United States and Japan. Google’s Recipe view is a new search filter that has been added to the existing filters on the left-hand panel.

To use this feature, go to Google.com, (Google.com/ncr for users located outside the US and Japan) and type a recipe for which you want to get the information hit the search button and then click on the “Recipes” link in the left-hand panel. You will immediately get the results for the concerned recipe along with ratings so that you make you decide on which one to go for.

Closely look at the options in the left-hand panel in the results. You can narrow down the recipe search results by choosing the ingredients that you want to include or exclude:

And if you are in rush for time, you can also get the recipe results that help you to cook the recipe in quick time:

You might also keep an eye on the amount of the calories that your recipe would serve to your guests. Fortunately there are filters available to narrow down your recipe search results based on the calorie count as well :

Give it a try, I’m sure you will find this pretty useful. Non-US and Non-Japan users can also get try the direct Google Recipe View landing page.

[via] Official Google blog

[Tip] Locking Google SafeSearch For Better Parental Control

October 1, 2010 by bharath

A simple Google search can give you access to a wide range of information which sometimes may even included the content that is not appropriate for your age. For the same reason, Google has “SafeSearch” feature to filter out content that may not be enjoyed by the users of all age groups.

But the SafeSearch settings aren’t kind of that hack-proof stuff. It’s even easier for your kid to change turn the SafeSearch off without much effort. One way you can ensure your kid browsers search through SafeSearch only is to lock the SafeSearch option for a particular browser.

Let me guide you to lock the Google SafeSearch settings for any specific browser. Follow the steps:

1. Go go any Google search results page.

2. Click on the “Search settings” link present at the top right corner of the page.

3. You will now be taken to the Google Preferences page, where you can find different sections like Interface Language, Search Language, SafeSearch Filtering, Number Of Results etc.

Focus on the “SafeSearch Filtering” section.

4. You will find a “Lock SafeSearch” link at the bottom of the three options.

5. When you click on the “Lock SafeSearch” link, you will be asked to log into your Google account. Provide your credentials and proceed to the next step.

6. When you proceed, you will be shown a warning about locking SafeSeach. Just click “Lock SafeSearch” to proceed further.

The SafeSearch will be locked across all Google domains, meaning all the country specific Google sites included.

7. A message will appear saying “SafeSearch is locked across all Google domains” will be displayed along with a text that tells you that colored balls have been added to all the search pages, denoting that SafeSearch is locked.

Sometimes you may get messages like “SafeSearch is partially locked”. This happens so when some of the Google’s domains don’t respond to the request sent to them from your browser. This is a minor issue and will be fixed automatically when you try the same after sometime.

That is it. You have now locked the SafeSearch settings for one browser. This would still work even if you log out of your Google account.

From now on, a group of colored balls will appear on search results page, to let you know that Safe search is being locked.

However, this isn’t hack-proof either. As these are stored via cookies, deleting all the browser cookies will change the settings again. Also you need to setup this kind of SafeSearch lock for all the browsers that you use. Read : additional parental controls to restrict your children from using applications and other settings on your Windows 7 machine.

[Video] How Google Search Works ?

March 22, 2010 by bharath

Learn what happens when you do a Google web search :

Here comes a great video from Google (by Matt Cutts), explaining broadly how the Google search works.According to Matt Cutts, when you do a Google search, you aren’t actually searching the web, you are searching only Google’s index of the web which may not include each and every web page from the internet.

Watch this video to learn more:

How Search Works

If you are curious about knowing how stuff works at Google, like how the Google search works or how search ads work or how Google Apps work, you may want to visit this how Google works page.

Google Voice Search Available For Your Nokia S60 Phones

November 4, 2009 by bharath

Google has launched Google Search by Voice Application for Nokia S60 phones, which are hugely popular around the globe.

The new version of Google Mobile App for Nokia S60 phones which cover most N-Series and E-Series phones, when installed, places a a shortcut to Google search on your Nokia phone’s home screen.This allows you to search either by voice or by typing.

[image: Official Google blog]

Also, the Google Search by Voice has been extended to support Mandarin Chinese.This means that Chinese users can just say the keyword they want to search and it will do come up with Google search result in a blink.

Note:To download the latest version of Google Mobile App directly from your Nokia S60 phone, visit m.google.com from your phone’s browser

Bing Brings Twitter Search

October 22, 2009October 22, 2009 by bharath

Twitter Search right from Bing!

Bing has today announced that It has integrated Twitter search in the universal Bing search, which now lets you the latest real-time tweets for your favorite topic or from the ‘Hottest topics on Twitter’.

Bing is also letting users know the ‘Shared links about Hottest Topics’ that the majority number of users are sharing.It’s known that Bing was previously gained access to the tweets of celebrities to include them in Bing search for testing purposes.

Twitter is providing Bing access to the overwhelming deluge of public, real-time tweets rushing in from all around the world so they can help you find those that make the most sense right now.

Twitter Team in their Blog Post

The deal seems to have worked out and now Bing has access to all the tweets data of whole public in Twitter and this information is available via a simple Bing search.

At present the this is restricted to the US users.

Link:Access the Bing’s Twitter Search.

YouTube Launches Real-Time Comments Search Similar to Twitter Search

October 21, 2009October 20, 2009 by bharath

YouTube is testing a new feature ‘Real-Time Comments search’ and this feature has been launched in ‘TestTube’ where in the YouTube engineers and developers test out the upcoming features.

This new search however, is pretty much similar to that of ‘Twitter Search’.

“The full comment will appear on a continuously updated results page, and “trending topics” indicates the hottest topics of conversation on YouTube at that particular moment.”

[Access Real-Time Comments Search Page]

Like Twitter search results, YouTube also displaying ‘Trending topics’, the hot searches that are being made in YouTube right at that moment.

Similar to Twitter, search results get updated whenever a new comment arrives (It has to be that way, since they are meant to be real-time updates).