Google: Search by Image

Google has added a nifty little tool to their Image Search area which now allows you to actually search using an image! Here's a short video you can watch to find out how it works. It's pretty easy and on the couple of tests I did, it actually works. I think it's very clever.

E-Z Fynd - the safe and easy way to search the internet!

Ever wondered why you can never find what you're searching for on the internet?

(With search terms and websites like these, is it any wonder!)



Lucky for us, there's a great new search engine out that you'll find extremely helpful! It's apparently the new easy and safe way to search the internet. Check out the video below to find out more. It's definitely worth a watch.

Hilarious right?! Luckily the internet is so easy to search these days, through Google, or any of the other many search engines. And for those of us who do end up searching for things like kitt eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeHS (like in the picture above) then unfortunately you might have to resort to E-Z Fynd (although I'm not sure even they will be able to help you)......or just not use the internet at all.

Pearltrees

I'm not sure how many of you use bookmarking websites like Diigo or Delicious, but I really find them unappealing and difficult to use. Well, that was until recently, when Tina introduced me to a site called Pearltrees. Pearltrees is a more visual and easy to use bookmarking website which I recommend you all go out and sign up for straight away!
You can create trees {or subjects} to which you can attach pearls {or websites}. Here is a picture of some of the trees that I have created:

You can then click on each tree to open it up, and then attach any pearls {or websites} you want. As you can see have one for my blogs - as there's a lot of those that I read - one for websites which have some great ideas for work....you can really make a tree for anything you want! Once you click into a tree, you'll be able to see the websites or blogs that you've made into pearls. If you hover over your pearls you'll be able to see a screenshot of the site. Here is my tree that I keep the food blogs and website that I love in:

Once you click to open a pearl it opens up the website, but keeps the pearltrees banner at the top of the page, so once you're done with one site you can simply click 'next' or 'previous' to scroll through your pearls. Or alternatively, you can select to go back to the Pearltrees site or share the site on Facebook and Twitter, as you can see below.

The part I like most about Pearltrees, is that they have an app available for free download on the iPad. The layout is the same as the website, but it's just so easy to swipe through your saved websites. Plus, on both the website and the app you can find people with similar interests and scroll through their pearls - you might find some more sites which are of interest to you which you can add as pearls!