Tag: Search
How to Search For Multiple File Types in Windows 7 (Quick Tip)
Have you ever wanted to search for more than one specific file at the same time based on the file extension? For example, Word Documents and Excel Spreadsheets only or .JPEG and .BMP files. Windows 7’s Search and Organization tools makes this very easy. Here is how you search for multiple file types at one [...]
Find a Notebook or Laptop in Your Price Range with Bing Shopping
The biggest determining factor for most notebook shoppers is price. With a new natural language processing feature, Bing is now able to understand how much you want to pay for a notebook and show you a collection of notebooks and laptops in your price range. The new feature is easy to use, and yields a [...]
How to Use a Personal Blocklist to Clean up Your Google Search Results
Many of us rely on Google search results to find the answers to dozens of questions every day, but sometimes the answers are as puzzling as Watson’s answer on Jeopardy! If you find that your top Google Search results commonly link to a website that doesn’t provide an answer, you can block that website from [...]
IdeaPaint and Evernote Partner for WhiteBoards that Never Forget
Whiteboards are great because they draw us to them for idea sharing. But they are fairly limited in size and location and can be erased, losing all of your info, by the brush of a cloth. Enter IdeaPaint and Evernote. IdeaPaint is a whiteboard paint that with a single coat can transform a wall, desk [...]
Google’s Bing Sting Operation Has Microsoft Stung
Hot on the heels of Microsoft’s own Big Think event for search in San Francisco, California, rival Google has released the results of its own sting operations which may cast a shadow on Microsoft’s efforts in the search space. According to search giant Google, Microsoft’s Bing search has been copying Google’s search results, which Google [...]
Google Instant Search — Your Searches Now Faster and Smarter
Today Google announced Google Instant, no they haven’t entered the instant coffee business, but if you go to Google.com and perform a search you’ll now see the search results unfold instantly in front of you – changing as you type. The new Google Instant search function displays the search results, and suggestions, as you type which allows [...]
Google’s New Site Specific Search String Not Really Working
Searching with Google is simple, but searching a single site requires either that the site include a search box or the user remembering a special search command. For example to search Notebooks.com for the words Google Search†you would type the following: site:notebooks.com google search That is simple enough, but for some reason I can [...]
Milo.com Alerts You When Your Local Store Has an iPad in Stock
Milo.com has always been a great way to find an iPad at a local store but a new feature launched this morning makes it an even better tool for finding an iPad, or any other gadget, at a local store — in stock email alerts. The new tool is called Milo.com In Stock alerts and [...]
Google Introduces Customizable Background Images on Home Page
Taking a cue from Bing, Google has just made what might seem like a minor change to their basic search page. When you think about it, the change is actually a significant difference. And I think it is a good one. For as long as Google has been around, they have presented a simple mostly [...]
Bing is the New Default Search Engine on HP Computers
At the Microsoft Keynote Steve Balmer, who opened with “We Bing, We Bing!”, announced a partnership with HP that will make Bing the default search engine on all HP computers as well as additional partnerships to show Microsoft pages as the default home page on new HP computer purchases. While users will be free to [...]
