What was on the world's mind in 2011? Rebecca Black, according to Google's Zeitgeist 2011 roundup. The teen singer's viral video wonder "Friday" had over 167 million view on YouTube, and searches for her name made it the number one fastest-rising search term on the site in 2011. Google's Zeitgeist review of the year is largely made up of the fastest-rising search terms in categories such as Read more

Google unveiled some hot new search capabilities earlier today in San Francisco, which are available on the latest version of the Google Chrome browser. Though some of you didn't like the Google Instant feature that rolled out last year, there has been another update to Instant that will shave seconds off of your page-load time. Find out more about it as well as the other announcements Read more

It seems like just yesterday we were wrapping up 2009, and here we are looking forward to 2011; how the year has flown by! Google may not have produced any particularly "shocking" headlines in 2010, but the company has brought lots of new tools to the table — like incredible (and incredibly cheap) voice calling features, and most recently, notebooks; but it's obvious that Google's search Read more

Today's announcement from Google brought a pretty big change in the way we search. Google Instant is amazing, and amazingly fast, but not everyone is as excited about change as Google is. If you're not a fan of the fast-loading, search-predicting new feature, there is a way to turn it off. Find out how after the jump. Read more

This morning at the SF MOMA, Google's VP of Search, Marissa Mayer, announced Google's "fundamental shift" to search — Google Instant, which streams search results as you're typing. Instead of hitting the enter key to obtain search results, your results will now pop up as you're keying in your search query. Google Instant even comes with a bit of a "psychic" ability, as it can actually predict Read more

Google is smart. Really smart. Take this tip, which I recently read in the latest issue of Real Simple: to narrow down your search, use a hyphen before words you don't want included in the search results. Say you want to find information on ravens — the actual bird, not the football team from Baltimore. So enter "ravens -football -Baltimore." The returned results will omit those including Read more

The next time you drop in to a new city or just wander into a new part of town you're not familiar with, Google wants to make it easier to find your way. Even if you don't have Google Maps installed on your Android or iPhone handsets, you can find the nearest ATM, coffee shop, bar, or restaurant with a single web page. By pointing your mobile web browser to Google.com and allowing Google to Read more

If you're news obsessed and want to get the latest updates on a particular subject, Google is here to help. Google announced yesterday at an event in Mountain View, CA, that over the next several days, it will be rolling out real-time results search that automatically updates when anything new is posted to the Internet on your specific subject search. Results will include news sites, blogs, Read more

Love to Google? Imagine if you could get Google search satisfaction times four. That's right — Google on steroids. Thanks to a site called GoogleGoogleGoogleGoogle, you can do just that — enter four different search queries and receive four different search results, all from one webpage. If you do the math, that's three extra Firefox tabs you won't have to open! Do you have an interesting Read more