You may well ask 'what was searchmash then?' Which is a very good question. It was a Google search engine that they ran quietly in the background as an unbranded engine that they could use for testing purposes. Lots of...

This is getting funny now. No sooner did SearchWiki disappear as reported last night, it's come back. There's what I consider a really funny piece over at TechCrunch: Google SearchWiki Is Back. Here’s How To Kill It For Good They...

No sooner does the Google searchwiki arrive than it vanishes! According to Google: “We’re really sorry that people can’t use SearchWiki at the moment - we’re working to fix the problem as quickly as we can. Please bear with us.”...

Google has made one of the most drastic changes to search since they first started out. It's now possible to start rearranging and commenting on results that come up in your searches. Actually, it's not quite that drastic, since you...

Earlier this year Google started an new initiative called Lively - 3D Avatars and Rooms which looked very much as though they were going to try and take on SecondLife. I played around with it for a while, but it...

In Quotes. is a Google lab experiment that I've blogged about in the past. They've now increased the quotes coverage to 5 years, which you can acccess via the labs page - it's not in the regular search option yet.

52 Things to do in Google. Nice collection displayed in video format. If you read my weblog regularly you'll know most of these already, but I found a few I'd not thought of and I'd recommend taking a look.

Google Insights for Search. This is a resource that I always remember exists until I actually need it and then magically forget that it's there! It allows you to compare searches across specific regions, categories and time frames. It also...

Search Google as it was in 2001. All 1,326,920,000 web pages of it. Try searching for IPOD, Weblog, Twitter, ''Wayne Rooney'', wii, iPhone, ''David Cameron'', ''credit crunch'', ''sarah palin'' - you'll laugh or be amazed at just about all of...

It's now possible to see what the traffic is like real time by using Google UK Maps but the functionality seems to stop at the border - it doesn't appear available yet for Wales, Northern Ireland or Scotland - I...