How To Make Google HTTPS (Secured SSL) Search Default in Google Chrome?

Google recently announced encrypted Google search over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). If you want to access the SSL encrypted Google web search page, then point your browsers to https://www.google.com/ https://encrypted.google.com/. SSL encrypts the information that travels between your computer and Google secured search service. This encrypted information cannot be read by third parties who may try to access the connection between a searcher’s computer and Google’s servers.

The new Google secured service includes a modified logo to help indicate that you’re searching using SSL and that you may encounter a somewhat different Google search experience, but as always, remember to check the start of the address bar for “https” and your browser lock indicators.

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How To Get Old Google Results Page Back?

Google Search Engine users must have noticed the new Google home page and search results look. At the official Google Blog, Jon Wiley, Senior User Experience Designer, posted a brief information about the new re-design. He said:

We made hundreds of prototypes and gathered feedback from user studies, Googlers and through experiments – including one of our largest visible experiments ever. In the end, we came up with a design that provides dynamic, relevant search tools on the left, while lightening and updating the aesthetics all around. [...] The logo was the foundation for new icons and hundreds of tiny alterations designed to accommodate and seamlessly integrate the expanded functionality of the left-hand panel.

Personally I like the new look of Google, but many Google users were not very happy with the new look and wanted the old classic Google back. Some discussions are also going on at the official Google web search help forum. Here we are highlighting some of the solutions that will come handy to get back the old classic Google search page and Google search results. [Read more...]

Google’s Super Bowl Ad – “Parisian Love”

Google’s search engine is the world’s favorite search engine, the reason for its popularity is because it returns relevant results faster and with a no-frills, simple user interface. It became popular not by the traditional means of advertising but via recommendation by its users to their friends, relatives and colleagues to use it.

Google rarely used any traditional means of advertising to promote its products and services, but this policy started changing, when Google used billboards to promote GOOG-411 service. Google also aggressively promoted it’s Chrome browser using different advertising schemes. This changes are very much understandable in the sense that Google wants its users to know that Google is more than Google Search now. But what is more surprising for everyone is that Google has decided to promote Google Search Engine at the Super Bowl. [Read more...]

Google Voice Adds Multiple Text Recipients

Google made a small tweak to its Google Voice service this week. Google Voice users will now be able to send text messages to multiple recipients. Previously, if you wanted to send a message to multiple recipients, you had to copy and paste your message into a new form for each recipients, but now you can just enter the names or phone numbers separated by commas and send it all at once. However, to prevent spam, you can send a single message to a most of five numbers at a time. [Read more...]

Google Chrome 5 Released for Public

The stable version of Google Chrome 4 was released to the public a short time ago. Now, the first developer version of Google Chrome 5 was made available to the public.

The change log for that first Google Chrome 5 release does not show many changes which can be attributed to the short time span between the final release of Google Chrome 4 and the first release of version 5 of the web browser. [Read more...]

Google Chrome 4 Stable Released with Support for Extentions, Bookmark Sync and more

Google has finally released Google Chrome 4 stable version, which brings in support for Extensions, Bookmark Sync and other 1500+ features to the masses. A great news for both the extension developers and users. Also, according to Chrome blog, chrome 4.0 is 42% faster compared to Chrome 3.0 and 400% since the first stable release last year. [Read more...]

Google Public DNS

Google has launched another new service called Google Public DNS to make your internet surfing experience better.

What is DNS and why does it matter?

The DNS protocol is an important part of the web’s infrastructure, serving as the Internet’s phone book: every time you visit a website, your computer performs a DNS lookup. Complex pages often require multiple DNS lookups before they start loading, so your computer may be performing hundreds of lookups a day.

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How to Test Google Search New Interface

Google’s redesigned interface is not available to the public and it is not confirmed when it will be available but now anyone can test this interface using the following simple trick. The guys at Gizmodo have found out this trick by which anyone can temporarily activate the new search interface and test out the features.

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