Technological Guide.

Favicons in Gmail

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

Favicon is the short name for favorite icon and also known as website icon, shortcut icon, url icon or bookmark icon which will be mostly 16×16 pixel square icon related to a particular website. I came to know that Favicons are started to appear in Gmail mails next to the mail messages after the subject and before the datetime.

So far, these favicons next to mails in Gmail are displayed for NetFlix only at present. This message was originally published by MG Siegler at Tech Crunch. These favicons will sure bring our attention to the mails and allow us to sort mails visually. You can check the favicon displayed to the mail from NetFilx in the gmail to the favicon displayed in the addressbar for the NetFlix website.

But I couldn’t see it in my Gmail even I tried to get password retrieval mail from NetFlix.

06.10.2009 Google, Online 2 Comments

Refine Google Search Results with new Search Options

Monday, October 5th, 2009

You can now refine your search results in the http://google.com with the search options. These search options was launched in May and now some additional options were added to the existing search options.

You can get search options panel by clicking on the “Search Options” with plus sign which will add an extra panel to the left side with Search Options which will refine the search results.

These Search Options allow you to refine search results on Specific date range, Past Hour, Visited Pages, Not yet Visited pages, More Shopping Sites, Fewer shopping sites, Books, Blogs, News etc. You can find more at Official Google Blog.

05.10.2009 Google, Online No Comments