Looking for inspiration for something to cook? Google has justannouncedthat it’s rolled out a Recipe view to its search results in the US and Japan. Displayed as a menu option in the left-hand column alongside Images, Video, Shopping and the like, Recipes works exactly as you’d expect, filtering search results down purely to food preparation instructions. Searches can be narrowed down by ingredients, cook time and calorie content. While it may look simple enough, Google describes Recipe View as an “Exciting technical milestone” , as it’s the first time search tools have been created based onrich snippets markup, which Google first introduced in 2009....

Browser cookies that track your Web history and serve up suitable ads are big business, although understandably, some people see them as an invasion of their privacy. Now Google haslauncheda tool that lets users permanently opt out of all ad personalization, wherever the option is available. Keep My Opt Outsis a Google Chrome extension that is being introduced as a response to a problem with existing opt-out programs – they’re reset whenever you delete your cookies....

Search giant, Google launched YouTube in Kenya today. ThroughYoutube.co.ke, Kenyans would be able to discover and view local content as well as instantly view the most popular videos in Kenya whenever they visit the domain. Kenyans with slow Internet connections also have the option of usingYouTube Feather. According to Google, YouTube Feather enables users watch pages with the lowest latency possible. It achieves this by severely limiting the features available to the viewer and making use of advanced web techniques for reducing the total amount of bytes downloaded by the browser....

Google announced on Tuesday that it was launching its YouTube Partner Program in India, to allow regular contributors to the video-sharing website to display ads with their videos, according toa report by IndiaInfoline. TheYouTube Partner Programenables people who make regular and popular uploads to the site to generate revenue from their videos with the help of ads overlaid on top of their videos and displayed alongside them. All of the uploaded content has to be the original creation of any YouTube user in order for them to be eligible for the Partner Program....

Google is todaylaunchingan experimental search tool calledHotel Finder, which is specifically designed to help users find the perfect hotel. Google’s Hotel Finder helps users narrow down their search options in the following ways: Where to stay: Hotel Finder points users towards the most visited areas of US cities. The tool then draws a broad ‘shape’ around the area to guide users, or you can draw the area yourself if you have an idea where you want to stay:...