Episodes

Google Update Roundup

Cali Lewis on GeekBeat Episode 647

Square expands their services for small businesses, GeoGuessr gamifies Google Maps, Roku gets a new interface, Google+ gets a major redesign, Google Hangouts and Messaging get rolled together, Google All-Access is the company’s new subscription music service, use one login across all Google Games platforms, and the phrase “Okay, Google” will let you search by voice!

Okay Google, Reimagine Search

Google IO 2013

Are you ready to speak your searches to any microphone-equipped device? That’s Google’s plan, starting this week.

Facebook Graph Search Helps You Find Things Friends Shared with You

Facebook Graph Search icon

Facebook today announced Graph Search, a new way to track down interests and connections with your friends on the social service.

The Good and the Bad of OS X Mountain Lion

Cali Lewis on GeekBeat Episode 480

Artificial jellyfish, Google’s new scientific calculator and our review of OS X Mountain Lion.

Social Search: What is It?

Bing Social Sidebar Twitter Expert

Making search more useful, with input from people you know from social media.

Research Made Easier with Google Docs

Google Research

The recently added Google Docs research pane taps into Google Search and allows you to add content directly from the web.

How To Use Twitter Search To Find Stuff That’s Actually Of Interest

Scott Ellis on Tip a Day Episode 13

Tip A Day #13 One of the most powerful and overlooked aspects of Twitter is Twitter Search. Let’s face it, none of us can realistically keep up with the thousands of accounts we follow or that follow us. Twitter Search will however make it much easier to get to the good stuff, the stuff that’s [...]

How To Search Better on Google

Scott Ellis on Tip a Day Episode 2

Scott Ellis discusses how to use basic Google Search Operators to get better results faster when searching Google on GeekBeat Tip A Day.

6 Awesome Google Tricks and Games

Google Pirate Edition

Here are 6 awesome things you probably didn’t know you could do with Google. Everything from alternative methods to search, to Google animated logos you can play. Google Search by Image Google will allow you to drop an image on the Google Image search and find other instance of it. Search Google Like a Pirate [...]

How to Use Google+ Search

Google+ Search

Creating Searches Creating searches is easy; everyone who’s ever used Google knows how to do that. Just head up to the big bar with the faint “Search Google+” text, enter your search terms, hit Enter, and … that’s about it! Of course there can be more to it than that if you wish. You can [...]

Search Engine Ninja Skills! Anyone Can Do It!

Google Calculator

I’m old enough to remember when there was (GASP!) no internet. If someone’s number wasn’t in the phone book, you just didn’t call them. If you wanted to know the population of Bulgaria, you had to manhandle a ten-pound encyclopedia that had all the facts from 1974. Forever. Even in 2011, that book still thinks [...]

GeekBeat.TV #214 | The Dark Knight Rises with a Turbine Batmobile!

Cali Lewis on GeekBeat Episode 214

DoAT Mobile Search Mobile search has been around for a while, but DoAT is doing something new! They’re breaking results up into channels so it’s easier to find what you really want. Dictating via Bluetooth Want your dictations to go straight to your phone to be included in an email? Dictation Blue is bringing that [...]