Reading Time: < 1 min Wikipedia is finally stepping into the App world with their own application for the iPhone. After looking into it and seeing all it offers, it doesn’t seem that great. The app isn’t much different than the mobile website that they offer. It does offer a history search however, which is convenient when trying to reference […]
search
Add your church site search to your Chrome home page
Reading Time: 2 min One of the most talked about features of Google Chrome is the rather innovative home page. It shows your nine most often viewed sites, along with some goodies along the sidebar. The sidebar can include quick-search boxes for sites you often search. As often as I’m searching our church site, I thought it’d be great […]
Google Suggest finally coming to the main Google homepage
Reading Time: < 1 min It’s been in Google Labs for a couple years, but Google Suggest is finally coming to the main search box on Google.com. Google Suggest shows an on-the-fly drop-down of possible search results as you’re typing. The advantages of this, as presented by Google, are: Help formulate queries. Start typing what you want to find, and […]
Formidable Google competitor launches — Cuil
Reading Time: < 1 min Cuil (pronounced “cool”) has just launched today, and looks like it might be the first search engine in a while to give Google some competition. The main thing Cuil promotes is the size of it’s index — 120 billion pages, compared to the estimated 40 billion pages in Google’s index. However, we’re not sure what […]
Small Facelift to Google Maps
Reading Time: < 1 min As reported by the Google OS blog, Google Maps is getting a minor facelift. They are replacing the tabbed search boxes at the top with a single search box that knows what you’re looking for. I’m still seeing the old version (as are many other people), but the new one is apparently being rolled out. […]