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Google has been hiding things from you. Good things, no less. Take a quick tour of three of Google’s best kept secrets, from its vaults of art images to its library of the world’s constitutions translated into English, to a tool shows you how many people searched for what and when.

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If you are looking for an alternative search engine to Google – perhaps you want to see if you can find some different results to what you usually see – alternative search engine Ecosia promises not to keep your browsing private but …

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Finding images online can be challenging. While we have excellent image databases comprising many thousands of images licensed for you to reuse and adapt, sometimes you just want to search the web for inspiring images that match the colours of …

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Google is great for many things, and while librarians seem to spend their lives preaching about its limitations for academic research, there are a number of interesting specialist tools Google have developed on the quiet that offer access to some …

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Have you come across Google Lens yet?  It’s Google’s attempt to identify and offer information about what is in a photograph you take.  Useful if you are trying to identify famous landmarks, brutally effective for cheating with both hands in the pictures round of a pub …

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Update 21.12.16 – The FullText@Portsmouth links have reappeared in Google Scholar today and appear to be working again. Update 15.12.16 – Ebsco are working with Google to re-establish working FullText@Portsmouth links.  Ebsco tentatively predicts that these links will begin working again from …

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