Have you ever wondered what data is stored with your Google Account? Yes google knows your online life on the web,at least when your logged in google.

What is google dashboard

Google dashboard is platform which gives the whole details of the online activities.You might me surprised and stunned to see these details stored by google.Nearly 35 products like Alerts, Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Web History, Orkut, YouTube, Picasa, Talk, Google Reader, Latitude, Voice ,Connect, Profile and more are listed in google dashboard.

A detailed summary of your usage is listed with direct links for you to control.Your given a chance to add or delete the activities in google dashboard

Just click here to have a look at your online activity
http://www.google.com/dashboard

Google has built this with greater transparency and control over our own data,To me its a best example of single-sign-on to access our wide data with single log in.Moreover information shared or summarised here are less important expect google checkout. Its a great effort from google as long as it protects our privacy and data.

To know more about Google dashboard Watch this quick video

Happy birthday bar code.People lose their patience in a long queue to checkout their favourite items,bar code made it easier with self check-out.Nice you had patience to read this.

October 7 ,Google has replaced its logo by a barcode to honor barcode service.The bar code was patented today on 1952 and later it was accepted as universal product code.

Quick catch on barcode
Invented by : Bernard Silver
Invented in Year : 1948
cost to generate : US$0.005 cent(Not even one cent)
Fomat : 1D or 2D barcode
barcode font : barcode-font(can download)

Here,I was able to generate barcode for “InspirationTrack”.

How to generate barcode image
You can generate the barcode for any text,why not try your name and get the barcode format.use the following link.

Barcode generator

How to decode the barcode image
You can upload the barcode image and get the decode format of the give JPEG or GIF file

Online Barcode reader

In the recent years search engine contest has reached its peak and hope it will be there forever.

Though MSN and Yahoo were parents in search engine, they are old to join old-age home. Bing, a fusion child of MSN has joined the search engine contest recently. Begin young and dynamic on its 11th birthday, Google takes the top position in the search engine market.

Here is a tool which compares Bing and Google in the screen by the sides.
http://www.bing-vs-google.com/

Firefox users can have their Add-on here, i wish horizontal scroll on both of screen will look great.

I would definitely say that Bing has improved a lot in searching relevant results, look and feel and the way it organize the search result.

Recall the story “a hare who ridicules a slow-moving tortoise”. Though Google started later than MSN and Yahoo, it leads the race, may be hare is sleeping and yes its going to be never ending race in the search engine contest.

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is well known search engine in the Internet hub.

There is difference in getting the “desired result to the query” and “relevant result to your query”. Minimum expertise is need to get your desired result in the first page. Given below is the search engine tips will guide users to drag their favorable results.

Known facts of google:
1.Google search is not case sensitive so searching for football is the same as FOOTBALL search operators are CASE sensitive so searching for football OR ronaldo uses OR as the google operator,while football or ronaldo does not.
2.Google default is to search for pages that include all of your search terms in the query.It also takes the order in which the search term is given in the input box.
3.Google excludes common words like “I” , “the”,”What”,”Why”,When”,”where”, “how”..etc google handles it searching methodology.
4.Searching using some operators with combination is allowed,Adding 2 or 3 operators together is foul play here.

Google is not:
Choosing the right search engine will give the best result.It’s not the only tool,nor it is the best; the best is selecting the right tool for your task.

Google doesn’t let you to specify the size of the file you’re looking for.
www.AlltheWeb.com is an alternate search engine which gives the result with file size.I know your not worried about it as you’re “GoogleFan” boy.

Searching using Operators

Plus Operator
Plus(”+”) operator will urge to include the word in search result.

For example : soccer +brazil

Minus Operator
Minus(”-”) operator will remove the word while showing the search result

for example searching for soccer -brazil will help you to avoid brazil team details

OR Operator
Provide documents with one of the given terms, like soccer OR brazil. You can also use | instead of OR: soccer | brazil

Double quotes(” “)
Using quotes urge google to search for the exact phrase (avoid other words), try “soccer brazil” and soccer brazil

Tilde(”~”)
This gives synonyms of the given word. searching for soccer ~tips finds also pages with the word help or guide.

Asterisk ” * “
This will include every word in search phrase. try “soccer * brazil ”

Double Dot ” .. “
This will bring number your expecting in the result for example “7..70 soccer ” will FIFA 10 : Soccer Game : EA SPORTS

NOTE:Advanced search engine tips will be added in the next part.
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