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Google Debuts Download PDF Feature

August 20, 2007 by Jason

Google-Debuts-Download-PDF-Feature-2The Patent Search technology owned by Google was improved with a pretty useful function that allows users to download a certain patent in PDF format. Until you, you were able to view a patent only on the search results page without having the possibility to download and view it in offline mode. As blogger Ionut Alex reported, “the option is available from the overview page and in the sidebar, when you browse the patent.” Google Patent Search was quite an anonymous technology as the Mountain View company didn’t promote it too often. Although some of the users are claiming that the technology is quite useless and provides irrelevant results, Google Patent Search is a simple way to search the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Read More»

Hidden Trick to Add Dictionary to Google Office

July 29, 2007 by Jason

The recently discovered language tools that were meant to enhance the Google Office suite can be easily implemented into Google Docs using a simple command to be entered in the address field. The trick was discovered by Tony Ruscoe from Google Blogoscoped who said that writing a simple line into the address bar of your browser can add three new options for every word included in a Google document. As you might know, blogger Ionut Alex Chitu discovered a document that revealed some new solutions to be implemented into Docs & Spreadsheets: Encyclopedia Britannica, the Merriam-Webster’s dictionary and a thesaurus.

Although there was no official confirmation for these new speculations, it is now possible to add them to the Google tool by following some simple steps. Here’s what you must do to implement the utilities into Google Docs: create or open a document in Google Docs and enter the following line in the address bar of your browser: Read More»