If you have been looking for ways how to access Wikipedia offline during SOPA protest blackout on 18th Jan 2012, we have good news. Wikipedia’s English-language pages have gone completely black at 9 PM PT, with a splash page saying “the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open Internet.” The online encyclopedia’s blackout will last... 

After the recent Do a Barrel Roll Easter Egg, Google is back with another — this time, a snow storm hits the screen on typing ‘let it snow’. Yes you heard it right — type ‘let it snow’ into the search engine, and snowflakes will start falling from the top of the screen. Yes, just type in those three magical words when you visit Google and you’ll be treated... 

Roughly 9 months after March’s Japanese tsunami, Google has put the devastation for the world to behold, with the release of a new Street View feature that covers the country’s most ravaged regions. It features an online archive of before and after photos from Google’s  Street View cameras that show eerie glimpse of post-tsunami Japan. It’s all part of an initiative to “digitally... 

Google is currently the number one website in the world today, and also the number one search engine with over 50% of the search market. Google has gotten so big that it will be hazardous to ignore it, and if we consider everything going on right now Google obviously sends at least 100 times more traffic to most websites compared to all other search engines combined. At least, when it comes to my... 

There are a number of gags, pranks, goofs and hidden messages within the search engine giant, Google, which are popularly called as Easter Eggs. For instance, the Google “do a barrel roll” search caught plenty of attention this week — but it’s only one of many Easter eggs the Internet giant has hidden around the Web. We had earlier compiled a list of awesome Google Search tricks... 

The war between Apple and Android just went “thermonuclear“. Steve Jobs’ biography titled ‘Steve Jobs’ by Walter Isaacson, coming Monday, reveals the late Apple executive’s disdain and utter hatred for rival Google’s Android operating system. The CEO felt the features were “grand theft” and declared “I will spend my last dying breath if I... 

Ever wondered what your route would look like if you were flying in a chopper? After giving us their uber-popular Satellite View, Street View and Earth View, Google Maps has now brought us Helicopter (chopper) View. Now, when ever you plug in a route on the Google Maps site, you’ll start to see a new “3D” button that will show you your route as if you were flying on a chopper (helicopter). We... 

What do cells phones and wallets have in common? Not only are they are the two things that you wouldn’t want to leave the house without, but they are the prime focus of one of Google’s latest products – Google Wallet. Google Wallet has finally launched in the US – well, for Sprint Nexus S 4G customers at least. The rollout of Google Wallet means owners of Nexus S 4G phones from Sprint... 

Jeff Bezos is challenging Steve Jobs, with the launch of Amazon’s $199 pocket-friendly Kindle Fire budget tablet on Wednesday, marking the most high-profile challenge yet to Apple Inc.’s dominant iPad; but if it will truly become the ‘iPad Killer‘ remains to be seen. The Kindle Fire tablet computer is smaller and less than half the price of Apple iPad 2. The Kindle Fire is... 

Google Realtime Search used to be the feature that indexed posts from Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Friendfeed, and other services both on its own URL and into the “one-box” on main search results, until Google discontinued its Realtime search feature in early July, 2011. However, Google has confirmed that they will soon be using Google+ data to bring the feature back – along with an internal search...