Search Archives

Make The Finder Live Up To Its Name With These Searching Tricks

February 14, 2014

If you’re fairly new to the Mac, you might not know everything that the Finder’s search feature can do. After all, aside from the ubiquitous...

News

Google Improves Search By Adding Synonyms And Sample Sentences

Toby Wellington -

August 23, 2013

If you’re looking for a word definition, one thing you may do is a quick Google Search with the word “define” followed by whatever word...

iPhone

Apple continues going thermonuclear on Google, replacing search with Baidu in China

Joshua Schnell -

March 27, 2012

Apple may be continuing its “thermonuclear war” against Google next month, but this time the battlefield is in China. A Sina Technology News report out...

Apple Inc.

Is Apple changing the search engine game? Wolfram Alpha queries dominated by Siri.

Joshua Schnell -

February 7, 2012

The New York Times has an awesome article and interview up on its website that features Stephen Wolfram, the founder of the search engine Wolfram...

Mac

Turn your Safari URL bar into a search bar with SafariOmnibar

Joshua Schnell -

July 19, 2011

Some of us spent years convincing the Internet newbs that the URL bar was not a search bar. Typing keywords into the URL bar was...

iPhone

Google iOS mobile search page about to get a revamp?

Eugene Huo -

June 9, 2014

If you go to google.com using Safari on your iPhone, chances are you’ll see what you’ve always seen. A replica of the classic Google search...

News

A Superior Mac eBay Shopping Experience: PicClick

Tamar Weinberg -

December 9, 2009

The coolest eBay mashup I have ever seen is a site called PicClick. PicClick is a visual eBay shopping experience and allows you to see...

Tips

Search by Label Color.

Joshua Schnell -

November 26, 2009

You know how you can “Find” stuff in a Finder window when hitting CMD+F? Well you can use a bunch of smart options to filter...

Tips

Search From Anywhere

Grant Brünner -

October 22, 2009

You’re not always in your browser when you want to look things up. Luckily there are tools available to fix that problem. Google Quick Search...

Tips

Firefox Address bar tricks

Kenneth Gaines -

July 2, 2008

Here are a couple tricks to keep you speeding along without switching to another search bar. The first is auto complete, for some reason my...

News

SERank: Keeping dibs on your page rank with a mac

Joshua Schnell -

December 5, 2013

For those of you that haven’t figured it out yet, the internet is a huge game. Your success if often directly proportional to how well...

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