Let’s say I have a site that sells Cialis, and I have to use spam to promote it. Wouldn’t be nice to use a trusted site like google.com to make a redirect to my site? For a very long time, if you used a URL like http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.mysiteaboutcialis.com , Google sent you to mysiteaboutcialis.com without a notice

One of the features I like most when I use Google on my mobile phone is that I can type the number of the search result instead of selecting it manually. The desktop version of Google.com doesn’t show the order number for search results and doesn’t offer any keyboard shortcut that could save you time.If you install Greasemonkey for Firefox, you can add a script that sets some keyboard shortcuts for Google search

I mentioned in August last year that Google started to show malware warnings if you click on a search result from a harmful site. Now Google shows a message below the title of a search result: “This site may harm your computer.” Even if you click on the title, you won’t be able to visit the site: Google explains you once again that the site could be dangerous and recommends you to visit another search results or to change your query

“I think there’s a ton of challenges, because in my view, search is in its infancy, and we’re just getting started. I think the most pressing, immediate need as far as the search interface is to break paradigm of the expectation of “You give us a keyword, and we give you 10 URL’s”. I think we need to get into richer, more diverse ways you’re able to express their query, be it though natural language, or voice, or even contextually

I mentioned some time ago about YubNub, a site that wants to be the one-stop for searching on any site. If you want to search on Yahoo, you type y, followed by your query. If you want CNN articles about Bush, type [cnn bush] and search using CNN’s search engine. The idea is simple and can be extend to user-defined commands.OiHoi uses the same idea, but it adds auto-complete

Google promises to change the presentation of the search results. As most people use web search exclusively, they miss a lot of good results available in specialized searches. Google tried to compensate this using OneBox results, but the solution seems a bit artificial, because there’s no correlation between the OneBox and the organic search results.Marissa Mayer says Google really needs to do something about that:I think we need to look at results pages that aren’t just 10 standard URLs that are laid out in a very linear format

Here’s a small list of tips that may help you use Google search better.1. If you’re on Google’s homepage, click on “I’m feeling lucky” if you’re searching for the site of a company or the official site of a product. “I’m feeling lucky” sends you to the first search result and saves you one click.Example: use this for [bmw], [France Telecom], but not for general terms like [used cars], [mobile phones history] because for these queries you’ll want to visit more than one page.2