Articles tagged Google Applications

Google offers a wide variety of different applications to internet users. They range from free webmail services, to applications which analyse user behaviour, and even mapping programs that give online access to street maps.

These articles are all related to the various Google applications.

Inaccuracies in the Google Knowledge Graph

The Knowledge Graph was an exciting project: a search engine that no longer just exposed you to the information of internet but could actually summarise certain topics for you and present them on the results page. Of course, this would depend on the fact that you were interested in the most popular topic associated with that keyword.

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Google Instant And SEO

Earlier last month, we published an article about the launch of Google’s new search service, Google Instant. This is the new “real time” search service that provides results as you type, and in which Google effectively tries to predict what you’re searching for, and displays results that change as you type more letters. The real question though, is what effect this will have on SEO.

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Google Street View Live For SA

Although the official announcement is only slated for later today, Google’s map integrated street view for South Africa is now live. Google Street View is Google’s integrated 360° photography taken, as the name suggests, at street level.

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Google Street View Live For SA

Although the official announcement is only slated for later today, Google’s map integrated street view for South Africa is now live. Google Street View is Google’s integrated 360° photography taken, as the name suggests, at street level.

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Google Docs

For some time now, Google has offered a set of document related applications built into their user accounts. Google Docs allows you to create, store and share your documents online, which means they’re accessible any time, from anywhere.

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Google To Phase Out IE6 Support

According to a notice we’ve just received from Google, the search engine giant has decided to phase out support for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 from the 1st of March 2010.

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Google To Phase Out IE6 Support

According to a notice we’ve just received from Google, the search engine giant has decided to phase out support for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 from the 1st of March 2010.

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Google Local Business Directory

Now that Google Maps has officially launched in South Africa, with all the functionality that’s associated with it, it’s become possible to add your business to Google Maps with the Google Local Business Centre.

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Fast-Flip Testing By Google

Responding to an increasingly media rich online environment, Google has launched a new experimental service that they call Fast Flip.

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Google Trends & Search Research Tools

Google Trends is a public web tool released by Google, that provides a graphic representation of how frequently any given term is searched for, according to date, region and language.

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Google Caffeine Comparison Tool

Following on from our last article, in which we discussed the new Google Caffeine algorithm that’s in development, here’s a handy little tool that lets you compare the results of the existing Google search infrastructure with results using the proposed new Google “caffeine” algorithm.

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New Boss For Google SA

Business Day reports that there’s a new face at the head of Google South Africa, replacing Stafford Maisie, who stepped down in April, after 18 months at the helm of the South African division of the search engine giant.

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New Boss For Google SA

Business Day reports that there’s a new face at the head of Google South Africa, replacing Stafford Maisie, who stepped down in April, after 18 months at the helm of the South African division of the search engine giant.

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New Boss For Google SA

Business Day reports that there’s a new face at the head of Google South Africa, replacing Stafford Maisie, who stepped down in April, after 18 months at the helm of the South African division of the search engine giant.

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Quick Guide To Google Applications

Google makes a wide variety of different applications available to their users, most of them freely. As well as being free, many of them are fun, engaging, useful, or all three. For your convenience, here’s a list of Google application, as well as links to them.

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