Google Suggest returns search queries based on other users’ search activities and search term popularity. So, if your company name doesn’t show up on Google suggest auto-complete, it may mean that it isn’t a popular phrase online (or not yet).
Here are some of our clients with a good position on Google Suggest:
Note that this doesn’t always work. Especially if your company name is common. You may want to try different phrases to work it out.
It’s always a good idea to design or wireframe a website or application before jumping straight to the coding or graphic design part. Wireframing, prototyping, mocking it up reduces the time to decide which part goes to which part.
The importance of it has always been taken for granted by many designers and developers to speed up development not knowing that it actually increases the development time because of revisions, missed user cases and sometimes simple user interface design mistakes.
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Google Places allows business owners to claim their business and customize their listing on Google Maps. Updated business details will appear on Google Maps, Google.com search and mobile results, and GOOG-411. Advanced features, including coupons and impression statistics, allow business owners to enhance and monitor their online presence.
- Local customers already search Google for the products and services you offer. Create a business listing to be sure they find you.
- Keep your address, phone number, hours of operation, and more up-to-date. Even create coupons and display photos and videos, all for free.
Sharing a big file over email is never fun and it doesn’t always work. So I’d like to share to you what I use whenever it calls for that kind of situation. Here are my top 5 best free online file storage and sharing services:
The free Dropbox account comes with 2GB of space and if you need more than 2GB of space, dropbox offers Pro plans for up to 100GB.
Visit https://www.dropbox.com
drop.io’s free “file drop” is 100MB each. drop.io offers upgrades to 10GB and 20GB drops.
I thought it was another April Fools prank but I just checked and the Google Street View is really now in 3D.
Above: Regular view
Above: In 3D
How do you enable it? Do you see that orange guy in the left side part? Yes, that’s the one with the 3D sunglass. Click it and the Street View automatically switches to the 3D version.
Of course, the only way to see this is to have those 3D eyeglasses. So next time you go to a movie, ask if you can take one home.
I have to say that Google’s list of web services is growing at a rate that I personally can’t cope up. Until I found this Firefox extension – Google Shortcuts. It displays all of Google services as buttons just next to your address bar either as a single button with a dropdown of services or as a toolbar with the list.
The settings window lets you choose which services you frequently use and want to show.
It’s a very small extension that makes your life simple. You got to have it!
So, you were wondering, how did that video get viral in less than 48 hours? Here’s how I think it happened (Disclaimer: I am making this up as I go. Ok, not really. I’m quickly researching things as I type.)
Here it goes… someone found this video somewhere, digitized it and uploaded it to Youtube (around October 15, 2009).
However, at that time, not much people knew what it was. It was also posted on Youtube swimming on a pool of millions of other videos. How can this be viral? Nope. Not yet. There are still some ingredients missing.
Today, I was wondering how I could ever search for something if Google didn’t exist and I asked myself, “How do I look for answers without using Google?”
I certainly wanted to answer my own question really bad so I dug up a few worthy search engines out there that can be my alternative to Google search.
Here are some of my early favorites (in no order):
No introduction is needed for the 3rd largest website in the world.
If you want your news and you like to get them online, but don’t have enough time to check all the news websites and blogs, there is a cool experiment from Google Labs called Google Fast Flip.
Google Fast Flip captures images of articles on their partner’s websites and displays them in an easy-to-read format. It’s really cool to view these images in a widescreen monitor because you are able to quickly scan on popular articles with the website’s template using all your screen real estate. I’m a quick skimmer and I really love how they are laid out. And because not all of us reads all those web news/blog content, skimming through headlines and pictures is serious time-saver.
Quick reminder: Avoid being a victim of an e-mail phishing scam.
A good practice to save you from these e-mail hoaxes and fraudulent links (phising) is to always check (double-check then re-check) the link that you are about to click. It may save you from viruses, malwares, spywares or even save you lots of money. Especially if the link involved grabbing your personal information.
Take this phising email I recently received:
The email looked unsuspecting for a regular user at first. But after I hovered into that link “Click here to verify your account”.
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