Google India has announced that it will begin collection of imagery with 360 degree panoramic cameras loaded on cars and its iconic Google Trike (pictured on the left) in Bangalore. Continue Reading »

Google has introduced a feature in Google Search which allows users to recommend websites and even advertisements to friends on your social networks. Functionally, this appears to be almost exactly like Facebook ‘Like’ system. Continue Reading »

Searchengineland.com has published a detailed account of how Bing is curating its own search results based on Google's search results - here's a synopsis of how the sting operation worked: Continue Reading »

Scientists would have certified the idea of an Earth-like planet as delusional, for creation of Earth required divine intervention. Gliese 581G is showing signs of water like liquid on its planet but with many variations from what we here at Earth are used to. A group of Swiss, French and Portuguese scientists used Keck observatory, Hawaii to make the discovery. Continue Reading »

Just activated Priority Inbox to my main Gmail account and it already seems to have made a vast difference in sorting out my emails, I already use a few Gmail filters to filter out spam, offers, and newsletters, but this is a neater and organised way to present email on a browser. The new Inbox looks really well organized on a 22-inch screen, thanks to news sections: important, unread, starred, and everything else. The feature apparently gets better at predicting which emails are important and which ones aren’t (something like a Pagerank algorithm for your emails). For those who have hundreds and thousands of unread emails, this is a better way to sort things out, and worth turning on. Continue Reading »

TED.com (Technology, Entertainment and Design) has been offering hundreds of amazing videos for viewing and download since 2006. Since then TED has released over 700 talks, with more released daily, on a Creative Commons license. Here's a Technoholik best-of line-up of videos from recent times which makes interesting viewing: Continue Reading »

For most net users, Google is embedded into muscle memory. Duckduckgo should prove a useful alternative when you're trying to search for a genuine review or a feature on a particular topic. The search engine seems to reward human data aggregators and websites, allowing you to explicitly filter out shopping results. Continue Reading »

Now you can check out the full Bandra-Worli sea-link in a virtual 3D environment right from your browser! With 'Earth View', Google has incorporated the three-dimensional aspect of Google Earth in its regular browser-accessible Google Maps service. Read on to know how you can access the same and check out the features it offers... Continue Reading »

Now you don't need to ask anybody the price of a 1 terabyte drive, a 16 GB MicroSD card, a 16 GB pen drive, because Google knows all. Available now as a tab on the Google India search results page, (Show Options, Shopping tab) the feature serves as a price comparison tool for shoppers who want to know the price of everything, from the latest tech toys, to detergent powder. Continue Reading »