Tag: SUGGESTIONS

I love playing around with Google Suggest (the "search auto-complete" feature). It's a great time waster, but it also provides some interesting insights into what people often search for. It's kind of like a mirror of our culture, or at least a fascinating peek into what people consider interesting, or troubling, or worth getting more information about. I like how the URLs are ...

First off, let me clarify: I'm not saying that StumbleUpon isn't a very complex, smartly built addon. It's just that I don't go stumbling off to a (somewhat) randomly selected site all the time. Sometimes I'd like walk a path that has been trodden by others searching for the same things I am. Fast Forward by BuzzBox is an excellent alternative, suggesting possible destinations based on where ...

Soovle is a search engine for people who might not know exactly what they're looking for. As soon as you start typing a search term, Soovle will begin to offer suggestions for related terms that may help you refine your search. And it doesn't just offer suggestions for one service, but for 7: Google, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Answers.com, Ask.com, YouTube, and Amazon. If you want to take Soovle up on ...

Hold the phone! The opinions of arm chair quarterbacks, movie critics, CEOs, and political commentators are about to start mattering! Now they can tell other people what they should do via the Internet. And really, has the ever been a more effective way of doing things than through the Internet? Should Do This, a quick project from the folks behind 43Things, is positioning itself as the ...

Google loves a good April Fool's joke, and you may remember that last week Google promised a new service called Gmail Paper. The concept was that you could request a hard copy of all of your emails, and Google would ship a box with printouts to your door. Sounds silly, right? But the idea of being able to back up your email is anything but. Sure, you can configure Outlook or Thunderbird to work ...

Do you have a favorite utility or application, and just wish it would do one little thing, that would improve your experience with the program? I get that feeling all the time. It can be a helpless feeling for us non-developers, since we're sort of at the mercy of the software we can find to do what we need done. But there is hope. Below I'm going to provide a few tips that can help you to get ...