This feature allows you to subscribe to different kinds of sources to lookup your query in, in addition to the “regular” search.

You can enable it in your Google Preferences. And you can manage your subscription in the Subscribed Links page.

For example, this is how my subscribed links page looks like:

Google Subscribed Links

After subscribing to a source, you’ll notice a special entry (or more) in the results of your search, with info from your subscribed link(s).  This is what I get when I look for “man grep”  (after subscribing to the Unix Man Pages):

Unix Man Pages At Google

I still cannot tell if this will boost your (my) productivity, but it’s a nice feature anyway.

Have fun

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Make Google Even Smarter With Google Subscribed Links

You will get something similar to this:

The code I used for the above is:

Or in general:

Where DOCUMENT_URL_HERE should be replaced by the document’s URL

via Google Operating System.
Smile

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Embed A Document Using Google Docs

The greatest thing in this feature is, that Google allows you to add custom sites to the “Send To” destinations. A few nice sites are listed below:

1. Download item as PDF (via)

Name: Save as PDF
URL: http://savepageaspdf.pdfonline.com/pdfonline/pdfonline.asp?cURL=${url}
Icon URL: http://www.adobe.com/lib/com.adobe/template/icon/pdf.gif

2. Share in almost any social network with AddThis.com (via)

Name: Share This
URL: http://addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&url=${url}&title=${title}
Icon URL: http://shareicons.com/favicon.ico

3. See related tweets (via)

Name: Conversations
URL: http://backtweets.com/search?q=${url}
Icon URL: http://backtweets.com/favicon.ico

4. Auto-Translate Items (via)

Name: Autotranslate
URL: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=${url}
Icon URL: http://translate.google.com/favicon.ico

5. Blog At WordPress (via)

Name: Blog To WordPress
URL: http://[your-wordpress-domain]/wp-admin/press-this.php?u=${url}&t=${title}&s=${source}&v=2
Icon URL: http://s.wordpress.org/favicon.ico?3

6. Send item’s URL to bit.ly (URL shortener) (via)

Name: bit.ly
URL: http://bit.ly/?v=3&u=${url}&s=${title}
Icon URL: http://bit.ly/static/images/favicon.png

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Google Reader Useful “Send To” Services

This service is great for displaying dynamic data since the API call can be used as the image source, which means that using PHP/Javascript or any other dynamic language for forming the API call, will “link” your chart with the dynamic data you want to display

Here are a few calls along with the results:

Of course it’s not limited to be used with HTML, and you can use it in any programming language, as long as you know how to display images from the web.

Check the full documentation here. I’m sure that many great ideas will jump into your head when you see it.

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Create Cool Charts With Google Charts API

“Tip Jar” is a collection of tips, submitted by the users, and categorized into different categories: Home, Work, Tech, Finance etc…

Users can submit new tips, and vote for tips submitted by others. The tips are displayed according to their popularity (which might be bad for new tips, since it will be harder to discover them).

Anyway, it looks like a nice service by Google, and another step towards making information available for everybody (who can afford a PC and internet connection).

Check it here.

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Google’s Tip Jar