Have you ever found yourself searching Google.ca looking for information, a product, or a service but find yourself presented with information that is less relevant you because they are from websites outside of Canada? Google.ca is Google’s Canada specific search engine and it does its best to figure out where you are to make your searches geographically relevant, but at the same time it understands that sometimes the information you require will come from websites based outside of Canada too e.g. Wikipedia.
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Google’s Canada Only Search Tool
Friday, September 9th, 2011Where “Get Your Business Online” Falls Short
Monday, May 30th, 2011Approximately two months ago, the “Canada, Get Your Business Online” initiative was launched. Supported by big names such as Google, the aim of the initiative was pretty self-explanatory; getting Canadian businesses to build websites. According to Google, 100,000 Canadian small to medium sized businesses were/(are) not online, a sharp contrast to the 80% of Canadian consumers who are online.
Whereas this initiative was definitely a step in the right direction, it may not have been the most effective way to address the online disconnect between Canadian SMBs and consumers. For those unfamiliar with the initiative, it offered both free website creation through a templated “What you see is what you get” (WYSIWYG) website provider, and a year of free .ca domain registration, in addition to a few other perks.
Shifting Fortunes of the Big Three
Thursday, May 12th, 2011Under The Hood
In July 2004 a billboard appeared in the heart of Silicon Valley posing a complex mathematical problem. The billboard was completely anonymous and read: “{first 10-digit prime found in consecutive digits e}.com.” The answer was 7427466391.com which led the mathematically minded to a Web page posing another equation to solve. Solving the second equation would lead someone to a page on Google Labs which stated:
One thing we learned while building Google is that it’s easier to find what you’re looking for if it comes looking for you. What we’re looking for are the best engineers in the world. And here you are.
As you can imagine, we get many, many resumes every day, so we developed this little process to increase the signal-to-noise ratio.
Have a friend in the US? Send a holiday postcard from Gmail FREE!
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009Google’s Gmail is offering to send one free holiday postcard (yes, an actual snail mail) to anyone in the US.
Valid only within the United States and while supplies last. After the free one, if you like, you can print more cards on your own.
Hurry! Go here and send one now!
Experience the newly redesigned Google home with the always-visible sidebar
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009Just enter the below script onto your browser’s address bar and hit ENTER:
javascript:void(document.cookie=”PREF=ID=20b6e4c2f44943bb:U=4bf292d46faad806:TM=1249677602:LM=1257919388:S=odm0Ys-53ZueXfZG;path=/; domain=.google.com”);
Restart your browser and go to Google.com, you should see the newly redesigned Google.com (I tried this on both Firefox 3.5.5 and Google Chrome 3.0.195.33)
It looks awesomely clean and I love it.
Quick Post: Google now offering storage as low as $0.25/GB
Thursday, November 12th, 2009If you are like me who receive a lot of emails and uploads photos at Picasa, then additional storage is just a must. We are in luck! Google is now offering extra storage for as low as $0.25 per gigabyte. If you’ll ask me, I think that’s reasonably cheap.
Here’s Google’s price list.
20 GB ($5.00 USD per year)*
80 GB ($20.00 USD per year)
200 GB ($50.00 USD per year)
400 GB ($100.00 USD per year)
1 TB ($256.00 USD per year)
2 TB ($512.00 USD per year)
4 TB ($1,024.00 USD per year)
8 TB ($2,048.00 USD per year)
16 TB ($4,096.00 USD per year)
Google Dashboard: What Google Knows About You
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
Google just made it easier to see what it knows about us. The company now presents all information it knows about how you use their services and they made it very easy for you to find it.
The Google Dashboard covers all their products and services and tells you in brief detail on how you use them. Some of the services listed there are Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Orkut, YouTube, Picasa, Reader, Alerts, History, Blogger, Tasks and many more.
Here’s a video overview of Google Dashboard below:
Dear Canadians, smile! You are on Google Street View
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009Google Wave: What is it, its potential uses, how to get it and a screenshot
Friday, October 2nd, 2009![]()
What is Google Wave?
Keeping it simple, Google Wave is a tool for real-time communication and collaboration.
How does it look like?
Here is a screenshot of my account at Google Wave. Click on the image to preview it in full size.
List of potential uses for Google Wave
(Note that all of these are done in real-time. When I say real-time, I mean “real-time”. You will be able to see people type, delete characters, insert videos, games, plugins, photos and more right before your eyes on your browser without reloading.)









