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This article shows you how to put the options and controls in the Google search results page into the language that you actually speak, rather than the official language of the country you (or your Internet Service Provider) are in. Tonight I noticed that Google's search-results are still in English, but the option links and controls (eg Next-page, Images, Videos) are all showing in the Irish language (known as Galeic to some people) presumably because I'm in Ireland, and it was (until a couple of hours ago) St Patrick's day. This is nice of Google. But unfortunately many people here - yes, even thought who learned Irish at school for 14 years - don't actually speak Irish. And personally I didn't even go to school here, so I can't even say "Please may I go to the toilet" (the first Irish-language phrase learned by many an Irish child). So putting these words back into English is pretty important to me: I can guess where Images / Videos / Next ...

This article shows how to use a Google Drive form to put a survey questionnaire into your blog or website. How to make simple questionnaire forms in Blogger Blogger's Poll gadget is a tool for putting a question onto your blog, which you visitors can answer. The gadget collects the answers for you, and shows the results. This is very easy to do: you just add a gadget in the usual way , and set up the question and answer options, and the expiry date (ie the date after which you won't accept any more answers). And with some template editing, you can arrange to put this gadget either above or below your blog-post gadget and only show it on certain posts or pages - so it's an easy way of running a very simple survey on your blog. But it has a lot of limits: you can only ask one question, answers must be from a pre-defined list of possible answers, there is no other way for you to collate the results, etc. Google Drive Forms are a better way to build a poll or survey There a...

This article is about how to update a file that you have loaded to Google drive. It only applies to files that have not been converted to Google Docs format - for example, PDF, Word, Excel etc files. New versions vs new files in Google Docs On a couple of my blogs, I provide files that people can download and use themselves. When you share a file in this way, there are three main issues to consider: Where to put the file How people will find it What format to use. Today, Google Drive is the most obvious file hosting option for people using Blogger. (A file host is somewhere that you can put files which Blogger cannot upload - see File Hosting options for Blogger for more details and other alternatives.) I thought a lot about the best format to use for these files: if I convert them to Google Drive (AKA Docs) format, they won't count against my file-storage quota, and everyone has access to Google Drive/Docs.  But not everyone has a Google account, or access to Docs at the ti...

This QuickTip is about a file that Google Buzz is going to put into your Google Drive, as part of it's final turn-off routine, for all Buzz accounts that haven't yet been deleted. Google Buzz was one of Google's early-and-short-lived social networking attempts, but was used by some bloggers looking to promote their blogs. It was closed down in October 2011 I haven't seen it published in any of the Google blogs that I follow, but recently I was sent an email saying that t he last step in the close-down will happen o n or after 17 July 201 3, when Google  will save a copy of the Buzz posts from any remaining active Buzz accounts to the account-holders  Google Drive .  There will be two types of file, and the files won't  count against your storage limits.   They say: The first will be private, only accessible to you, and have a snapshot of the Google Buzz public and private posts that  you wrote . The second will have  a copy of your  Google Buzz p...