Searching the Internet for the Environment

Ecosia

Ecosia is a typical search engine in that it will help you find what you are looking for on the web. The difference is that through searching, Ecosia gives back to the rainforest. The way this works is that if you saw an interesting sponsored link and decided to click it, the sponsoring company pays [...]

The Evolution of Social Buying

Over the past year, daily deal websites like Groupon and LivingSocial have grown in popularity and have given way to terms such as “social buying.” It is reported that approximately twenty percent of these daily deals go unused, allowing for the emergence of reselling sites such as DealsGoRound, LifeSta, and CoupRecoup, all of which give [...]

Looking to Save When Travelling?

Since it’s summer, many individuals, including possibly yourself, will be travelling this summer. Less people are looking at travel agents to book their trip and get them the best deal. Rather, people are going searching online travel sites for the best deal. Here’s an interested tidbit of information: if you are looking for additional savings, [...]

Google’s New Search Features

Yesterday, at the “Inside Search” press conference, Google unveiled some new search features, ranging from mobile to voice and image search to new instant search features. Mobile Search Features – including icons for local search: icons for “Restaurants,” “Bars”, etc. This gives individuals the ability to search with a simple click. Additionally, queries users search [...]

Personalized Internet Searching

Google +1

The Google +1 button has now gone public and users can “+1″ directly in Google search results. It’s similar to the Facebook “like” button and is a vote in Google for specific content which could alter the way you see search results in Google. This means that when browsing through search results you can see [...]

Sports Prevail Once Again

The royal wedding was everywhere on Friday. As much as the world loves tradition and fashion, prince and princess, the Internet has spoken – the world loves sports even more. Akamai, an Internet service provider and traffic monitor reported that at its peak, there were less than 5.4-million page views a minute at about 8:30 [...]

Travelling? Take a Look at Room 77

Room77

There are a myriad of sites for aspiring travelers to check out.  Have you heard of Room 77?  If not, I encourage you to check it out. Room 77 is a great functional hotel room database and search engine, where travelers can turn to in order to get the run-down on nearly half a million [...]

How Social Media is Providing Aid in Japan

We have seen how the internet and social media have aided to rally against and spread the word against political protests. It is now evident how the internet is playing a pivotal role connecting the victim’s of Japan’s 8.9-magnitude earthquake with one another. While much of the country is in disarray, the Internet remains unaffected and [...]

Stop Advertising Companies From Tracking Your Online Activity

These days, the entire world is online and connected to the Internet.  Advertisers are collecting data from users through behavioral targeting. The fact is advertising is 100% necessary on the web to keep all of that content you love and enjoy free.  Without it, we would be paying for anything and everything online.  Advertisers want [...]

How to Search your Life

greplin

With such a variety of options available today in terms of social media there may be times when you aren’t sure of where vital information might be. Finding this information can become quite time consuming unless you have already discovered Greplin. Greplin is a service that indexes and lets you search all of your online [...]