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Get Reverse Google Image Search Option For Facebook Photos In Firefox

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Google's reverse image search is a very handy feature. I've used it often to find the original source of an image, or in the case where I like an image for my desktop background, it has helped me find its largest available size. In the past, we've covered quite a number of extensions and add-ons that add Google's reverse Image search to browsers' right-click context menu, allowing you to right-click an image and search for it. Facebook Photo Appraiser is a similar add-on for Firefox that integrate with Facebook and adds a 'Similar images' option for all images on the social network, images allowing you to reverse search them. The search results open in a new tab. Read More

How To Use Google Now For iPhone In Unsupported Regions

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Last night, Google released Google Now for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad in the form of an update to the Google Search app available in the App Store. It is working well so far for people in many major countries, but those living outside them receive a popup message telling them Google Now isn't yet supported in their country. Well, we have found a way to bypass said region restriction and as always, we're going to walk you through the entire process. So check it out after the jump, and get Google Now up and running on your iDevice no matter where you are! Read More

Google Now Finally Launched On iPhone, iPad & iPod touch

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One of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean’s most surprisingly useful features was Google Now: the intelligent personal assistant that – besides processing basic commands like Siri on iOS – would very intelligently present you with the “right information at the right time”. Now, the acclaimed service is available on the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Check out the details after the jump. Read More

Hide Unwanted Google Search Results In Firefox

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If you’ve ever been bothered by unwanted websites or keywords in Google search results, there's now a Firefox extension called Hide Unwanted Results of Google Search that aims to provide a little bit of help by hiding results from particular websites, or any related content that you specify. As its name implies, the extension only filters out unwanted content from Google's search results, so it will not effect any other search engines such as Yahoo! or Bing. According to its developer, the add-on is basically an alternative to Google’s now disabled ‘Block Sites’ feature that kept certain websites or keywords from showing in the results. Since the official offering by Google is no longer available, this add-on can really save the day for those who used that feature and now miss it. Read More

Open Google Voice Search, Goggles & More On iPhone With Gestures

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One of the things that set Cydia apart from the App Store is the pace at which new competitors for good tweaks are released. Since there is no lengthy approval procedure, developers can release improved versions of an existing jailbreak tweak or app within a few days. Users reap the rewards of this competitive environment, as is evident from the release of Ryan Petrich’s Activoice. It hasn’t been more than a fortnight since Google added voice input support to its Search app, and the first tweak to take proper advantage of this feature was released just a couple of days ago under the label NowNow. Activoice expands the concept of NowNow to control every aspect of the Google Search app via Activator gestures, rather than just voice search. You can launch Google Goggles, go to the Google Apps section or even initiate the good old text search using the gestures of your choice. Read More

Google Search App For iOS Updated With Real-Time Voice Input

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A lot of people might label the Google Search app for iPhone and iPad redundant, but once you use it, you are sure to realize that there’s more to this app than meets the eye. While the mobile version of the Google Search website has recently been revamped to include separate entries for Reader, Calendar, Drive, etc., the dedicated search app for iOS is no slouch either. The app's latest update has added real-time voice search to the mix, making searching the so much easier. Comparing the updated Google Search app to Siri or Google Now, however, doesn't really fit, as the update adds nothing more than simple voice input to the app. Having said that, the voice input is smart enough to understand long sentences, and yields Google Now-like interactive information cards. It will even speak some answers out for you if you set U.S English as the language. Google has really thought things through regarding the update, as is evident from the detailed list of options for voice features. Users can choose the language they want and configure the app to work with Bluetooth microphones. Read More

The Official Google Search App For Windows 8 Now Available

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The best thing about Google services is that you get roughyl the same usage experience on all platforms. From time to time, developers do write dedicated clients for various Google services (just yesterday, we covered a third party Windows 8 app for Google Maps, called G Maps), but nothing's better than an official app that packs all the features you'll ever need. Google released their official Google Search app for Windows 8 today. The Windows Store app allows you to use Google’s search engine, Voice Search and other Google services without having to launch a browser. Read More

Get Google Now-Like Search Features On Any Android Device Using GTalk

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The latest iteration of Google’s mobile operating system, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, was released in June this year with a plethora of feature enhancements and performance improvements. Besides introducing the Android world to Project Butter, a predictive keyboard, interactive & expandable notifications, auto-arrangement of home screen icons & widgets, and various other useful features, the OS brought with it faster and smarter search, and a super-intelligent search assistant called Google Now. Currently exclusive to Jelly Bean users officially and Ice Cream Sandwich users unofficially, Google Now is something that even the users of other mobile platforms will be itching to get their hands on. If you think that you might never be able to take advantage of said feature on your Android device as you are not one of the lucky few users to have received JB or ICS updates, think again. XDA member J_M_V_S has come up with the simplest of solutions that lets any Android user avail text-based Google Now-like search capabilities on their devices. Read More

Google Mobile Search Becomes Smarter, Integrates Google Now-Like Cards

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With the introduction of Google Now in Jellybean, Google really showed the world what really makes Android a “smart” platform. Where there is a functional Google Now port available for ICS devices, but all Android phones running versions older than that haven’t had a chance to get a taste of the amazingly intelligent search assistant. Now, however, the interactive cards that appear in Google Now's search results have been made available to the masses through Google mobile search. The rollout of information card integration with Google search has taken effect for most smartphones, including iOS and Android devices. Thanks to this integration, you will be able to get direct answers to your questions, rather than just getting links to webpages. Ranging from instant solutions to calculations, currency/unit conversions, details regarding stocks, routes to destinations of choice, weather and sports information and general Knowledge Graph-based queries, you can now view all these on interactive cards without having to navigate away from the search results page. Read More

Unofficial Google Now Port Available For Rooted Android Ice Cream Sandwich Devices

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Android 4.1 Jelly Bean was announced at Google I/O last week with a plethora of new features and tweaks, but none of them has been making the headlines more than Google Now – the revamped version of Google Search that not only makes much accurate and quicker suggestions to your manual or voice-based queries, but also learns from your personal information (travel schedules, calendar events, search history etc) and presents the most relevant information on various smart cards. Now, if you happen to be an Android user rocking an AOSP-based ICS ROM on your rooted device, you can get your hands on a feature-restricted version of Google Now, without having to wait to get it via the official Jelly Bean OTA update. The procedure involves side-loading an APK and tweaking a few values in the build.prop file within your Android’s System folder. Barring the voice search feature, the app works fine, and lets you enjoy almost all the features offered by Google Now. Read More

Faviconize Google: Add Favicons Next To Google Search Results [Chrome]

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Google is the most widely used search engine and we all love it, but sometimes finding the right link from the unending list of results can be quite boring. Most users give up after the first three pages and try a different search phrase but the fact is that there may be multiple credible sources of information on a particular topic and they can’t all fit on the first three result pages. Faviconize Google is a Chrome extension that enhances your Google search results by adding favicons of the target website next to each search result.  Not only does the extension add some life to the dull results page, but these favicons make it easier to browse through search results, allowing you to instantly recognize credible websites. Faviconize is a tiny but handy utility that lets you save both time and effort while you browse Google search results. Read More

Get Google Search Results With Facebook Likes, Tweets & Google+ Shares [Web]

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Google With Social Stats is a pretty slick tool that lets you view Google search results, along with social stats such as Tweets, Facebook likes and Google plus shares. These social stats are a good indicator of an article’s popularity on the web, and help you decide whether or not to read a particular write-up. It displays standard Google web search results, along with image thumbnails and social statistics, so you can easily find the best content on the web. The service has a simple interface, which is easy-to-use and retrieves results instantly. Read More

Google Search Specific: Instantly Find Service-Specific URLs [Android]

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We all know Google to be the leader of the pack when it comes to finding an extremely swift and efficient online search engine. Just recently, by incorporating the real-time search suggestions feature into Android’s official search client, Google made a tremendous leap to help users conduct exactly the precise searches on their mobile devices. However, it would still require some effort (and typing) to search for, say ‘Rihanna on YouTube’, or the ‘Wikipedia page of Eiffel Tower’. Wouldn’t it be nice to have an app that lets you quickly jump to the search page of a required keyword by simply feeding in the word, and tapping the icon of the required service/website? Enter Google Search Specific – a free Android app that makes said task a breeze. By providing you a quick search bar to feed your keywords, a handful of buttons referring to some of the most commonly accessed online services, and an alternative address bar to quickly find your keywords on a desired website, the app helps you reach your preferred webpage in an instant. Read More

How To Disable/Hide Google Search Bar In Android 4.0 ICS Stock Launcher

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Among the many features and interface elements that Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich took from the tablet-exclusive Android OS variant, Honeycomb, is the static search bar that it displays at the top of its stock launcher. Being omnipresent (accessible from each of the five home screens of the stock launcher), it eliminates the need for you to make room for a search widget on the home screen. That said, users who don’t use the search application that often might consider it dead weight doing nothing more than making their home screen look all cluttered. XDA-Developers member oscillik has found a workaround that allows you to hide the search bar. Read on past the break to know how it’s done. Read More

Desktop Is A Firefox Add-on For Customizing New Tab Page

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If you are a frequent user of Firefox, and need speedier access to your favorite websites, then you may want to check out Desktop. Desktop is a Firefox add-on that allows you to set web pages as thumbnails or widgets in the new tab page. You can place them anywhere on the page by drag & drop, and also create sub-folders. The layout you create will be displayed in every new tab you open. Visual effects can be applied by setting a background image for the new tab page in Firefox. Read More

UniBar: Search Google From Within iPhone Safari Address Bar [Cydia Tweak]

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Almost all web browsers (mobile and desktop) out there come with the search option integrated with the address bar. This means you can type search queries in the address bar in addition to URLs. This saves users the trouble of going to a search engine’s website and typing in the query there. Unfortunately, iOS’s default browser (Safari) lacks this feature and comes with a separate search bar. But what’s the jailbreak community and Cydia for? There’s now a tweak for that and it's called Safari Unibar. While most desktop browsers that don't come with an omnibar, like Mozilla Firefox, still let users search if they put a valid query in the address bar rather than a URL. In Mobile Safari, however, there are two things that don't let users do that. The browser lacks a space bar in its keyboard, rendering it useless for entering longer queries, and apart from that, the app will treat anything entered in it as a URL, and adds the prefix and postfix automatically even if you key in a simple word. Read More

Googlizer Searches Google For Text Copied To Clipboard [Ubuntu]

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When using the Ubuntu Terminal or reading a text, PDF or Libre office document, one often comes across terms which are unheard of or require more elaboration for better understanding. Normally, one would copy these individual terms and launch a browser manually to search for them. A better alternative can be to copy the text to clipboard and launch Google search in a single click each time you require looking up a word, phrase or command. Googlizer is a Linux application which  has been designed to do just that. It does not have a GUI front end and merely requires being integrated with the Unity launcher to launch Google search for items saved to the clipboard. Furthermore, it also includes support for a command line option -u/--url, to select an alternative URL to search the clipboard text. Read More

Search By Website And Category In Firefox With All In One Search Bar

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All In One Search Bar is a Firefox extension which brings quick searching ability across famous search engines and websites by choosing a category. For example, if you wish to search for a video, you can choose the video category with the Google search option and get results only for videos related to the searched term. Search can be performed on Google, Bing, Facebook, Flickr, Ask, PhotoBucket, Wikipedia, Yahoo, YouTube, MetaCafe, BeeMP3, SongsLover, Wordpress, etc. This can save a lot of time for searching through specific search engines with defined categories. Another good part is that the search page can open in a new tab which provides the utility of performing quick searches from the toolbar instead of having to visit the specific website. It is also better than the available search bar in Firefox since it has more refining options such as search by video, image, web, news, etc (depending upon the selected search engine). The available criteria are refined according to the selected search engines. For example, if you were to select Facebook, you will be able to refine the search by applications, pages, profiles, groups, events, posts by friends, etc. Whereas, Google search will allow you to search by videos, images, web and news. Read More

Block Spam Links From Google Search Results In Chrome

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When searching a keyword on Google, we often come across spam links. Many websites automatically pick the searched term and generate a similar result to attempt phishing. While sometimes these links are easy to identify (e.g. when one searches the term Whitehouse and a link says “buy Whitehouse”), at other instances, they can be quite convincing. Google Search Spam Blocker is a Chrome extension that warns against spam links and allows users to block unwanted URLs from appearing in the Google search result. Read More

Extend Search Engine Options In Firefox With Advanced Search

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Sometimes it can be hard to get a valid result for a search criteria even from Google. This is particularly the case when we attempt to search files related to a specific program such as a MS Word Document. Advanced Search is a Firefox extension that enhances the search criteria to allow search engines to specifically search for certain program formats and websites. Advanced Search extends the functionality of added search engines in the Firefox Search bar by adding additional features to them. Read More