Posted by: askjayauthor on: July 2, 2009
Suddenly I have received many questions related to various google products so I have decided to deal with all of these questions with the common posts like this one rather than answering each question individually. So keep watching for more as there are many interesting questions.
What is Google Alerts?
Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.
So many interesting blogs and so little time! If you’re anything like me, you like to pick and choose what posts you read on any given blog. You may only want to read a post about a topic of your interest, or perhaps you only want to read blog posts by a particular writer or two. Hence the new Blog Alert, which notifies you about new blog search results.
Google Alerts enables you to set up an email alert on a daily or weekly basis or if you prefer, in real time.
Posted by: askjayauthor on: June 15, 2009
This question comes from James of Okotoks in Canada. There are many tools available online where you can get the information on any person. Since James is looking for the information for his friend who lives in US, I am going to focus my answer to US needs.
Recently I have written about this on another blog and I am providing the same information here rather than rewriting it.
Learn here How to Search for People and Phone Numbers!
If you are like me, then you like to use internet for looking for information rather than using other old methods. Google includes listing of millions of US households in what it calls the Google Phonebook. If you are looking for some information, here are the tips on how to look for people and phone numbers in google:
Posted by: askjayauthor on: June 7, 2009
This is an interesting question from Molly of BC, Canada and I had to do research to find out more about the google directories.
If you are new to google directories, you can go and make yourself familiar now. A majority of the users use google directory the same way as they do the regular google search page i.e. by searching the directory than browsing it. To make your experience for the google directories better, I suggest the following steps:
Posted by: askjayauthor on: June 1, 2009
I got this question from Patty and Norm of US. I think this is a question which can benefit any one. So I am going to expand my answer so that it can help many others who look for the answers to google search queries.
Most of the users enter a keyword or two into google search box, click the search button and are satisfied with the search results. However there is a better way to search, one that generates smaller list but more focused list of results.
Here are few easy and valuable tips to refine your google search results:
Posted by: askjayauthor on: February 6, 2009
This is the second question I got last week from June of Phenix and she asks “What is Google Earth?”.
First of all, thank you June for asking this question as recently Google has upgraded Google Earth and it is much more powerful now than the earlier version.
Here is the wikipedia definition of Google Earth first:
