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News

Great Online Shopping Festival in India to be Hosted by Google on Dec 12, 2012

December 3, 2012 by Venkat Eswarlu

This is interesting! Google to host Great Online Shopping Festival in India on 12th December 2012 at gosf.in where some big shopping sites participating … [Read more…]

Posted in: News Tagged: Google, GOSF, Great Online Shopping Festival, India
News

Now You can Save Google Search Settings to Your Google Account

August 22, 2012 by Venkat Eswarlu

When was the last time you accessed Google search Settings and made changes may be like turning off safe search by dragging slider towards … [Read more…]

Posted in: News Tagged: Google, Google account
Tips and Tricks

Drag-n-Drop An Image from Your Computer onto Google Image Search to Find Similar Images

February 14, 2012 by Venkat Eswarlu

I didn’t know this until MattCutts shared on Google+, it’s really cool- Google lets you drag and drop any picture from your Computer onto … [Read more…]

Posted in: Tips and Tricks Tagged: Google, Google image search, search by image, Similar images
Google Chrome

Google Screenwise: Get Paid for Sharing Your Internet Use in Chrome with Google

February 8, 2012 by Venkat Eswarlu

Google started a new project called Screenwise, which is all about knowing how you use the internet. Interested users can sign up for Screenwise … [Read more…]

Posted in: Google Chrome, News Tagged: Google, Google Screenwise, Google Screenwisepanel
News

Google Starts Redirecting Blogspot Blogs to Country-Specific URLs

January 31, 2012 by Venkat Eswarlu

You wouldn’t be surprised in future if you visit Blogspot.com other than in US country you’ll be redirected to your country specific URL in … [Read more…]

Posted in: News Tagged: blogger, Blogspot, Google, redirection
Google Chrome

Official Google+ Notifications Extension for Chrome

November 3, 2011 by Venkat Eswarlu

There many Chrome extensions available on Chrome Web store that shows Google+ notifications when you’re signed into your Google account, even Google shows these  … [Read more…]

Posted in: Google Chrome Tagged: Chrome Extensions, Google, Google Plus, Google Plus Notifications
How to

How to Get Google+ Invitations

June 29, 2011 by Venkat Eswarlu

Google announced Google+ project which aims to fix relationship with friends and relatives online through real-life sharing. With Google+ you can group your friends, … [Read more…]

Posted in: How to, Tips and Tricks Tagged: Google
Tips and Tricks

Make Google SSL Search as the Default Search Engines in Firefox , Chrome and Internet Explorer

May 23, 2010 by Venkat Eswarlu

Google launched  encrypted search which in beta which sends encrypted data to Google while you are performing search from your browser.Google SSL search will … [Read more…]

Posted in: Tips and Tricks Tagged: default search engine, default search provider, Google, Google Secure search, Google SSL Search
Firefox

How to Turn Off or disable Location-Aware Browsing Permanently in Firefox

July 1, 2009 by Venkat Eswarlu

So having known what is location-aware browsing in Firefox ,as Firefox or Google never spy on you by knowing the information collected ,you may … [Read more…]

Posted in: Firefox, How to Tagged: Firefox 3.5, Google, Location-aware browsing, privacy

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