Since the launch of Bing in June 2009, the Microsoft owned search engine has provided minimal, yet noticeable bit of competition for the biggest search engine around, Google. In fact, Bing has very recently managed to claim just over 17% of the U.S. market share. The search engine giants Google accounted for 66.5 percent of core searches in April 2013, down 0.6 from March’s 67.1 percent. BBing’s share rose 0.4 to 17.3 percent — and all-time high for the relatively young Bing search engine. So, as Bing slowly but surely crawls ...

In Gmail’s ever-evolving user interface, you can now enable tabbed inboxing to help sort your e-mails. This is done in combination with static tabs and filters so that everything has its own place. While this is still in its development stages, or so it seems, you can easily switch back and forth between the new tabbed inbox feature and ...

Although we’ve covered come pretty cool changes and features in Google+, there are still some things that need to be altered. Userscripts easily make this possible. Similar to our post on enhancing Google+ ...

While looking through the Galaxy S4 for our upcoming review, we noticed something odd. Samsung’s latest flagship contains not one but two separate voice command-based virtual assistants. We’re talking about the Korean manufacturer’s own S Voice and Mountain View’s Google Now. Two services sharing one device seems odd to us. That’s why we took both of them out for a spin to see which was ...

Google-users, you never know when you'll need to access your Google bookmarks. Maybe you're on a public computer that only has Firefox, or maybe you have to work in Firefox and really need your Google bookmarks a click away. Well, a simple download of the Fess Google Bookmark Extension can make this a reality. Getting what you need quicker is all about computer productivity, and this extension does exactly that. Our guide will outline how to use an extension for Firefox ...

There are several Google services that come pre-loaded on Android devices. You might have noticed that although it's easy to add accounts to the various services, removing the accounts is not that straightforward. A single device can have multiple user profiles and there can be multiple accounts under each profile. To learn how to manage and remove user accounts associated with all the Google services ...

We've been fans of voice-activation here at TechNorms for awhile now, and now you can search the internet as you're typing or doing anything else with your hands with Google Chrome's latest feature - Google Voice Search. Fans of Siri will find this feature very familiar. Google Voice Search is available to anyone who visits Google.com from their Chrome browser, and it's much more than a simple voice-activation search tool for the web. From directions and weather with ...

Sometimes we need to find an image which is a particular size. Using an image resizing tool like ImageSizer is one option, but it's always more convenient to source the original image, in the exact size that you happen to be looking for. Many people are unaware of the fact that both Google and Bing allow you to search images by size. This is partly due to the way that Google has made the feature less apparent on its ...

It's frustrating when you're told about a popular game or app, then head to the Google Play Store only to discover it's not there. Now, that doesn't mean it's not really there, it's probably just not available for your device or Android OS version. Before you get your hopes up about a game or app for your phone or table, you can actually determine its compatibility through the Google Play Store ...

During Google's 2013 I/O conference, the announcement was made regarding a new Google Maps, with a brand new user interface and design. Today was the first day that Google allowed the public to preview and test out their brand new global mapping system. This Summer, the new Google Maps is expected to be officially rolled out to web browsers, iOS & Android devices. So, what's new? The