GOOGLE

dream in japanese · Post by **dream in japanese** » 10/7/2005, 10:14 am

for an assignment i need to find out something about google/how to do something on google that most people in the class wouldn't of figured out. ANYONE...HELP?? :puppyeyes:

dream in japanese · Post by **dream in japanese** » 10/7/2005, 10:16 am

and yes i'm "cheating"...but damn...i've spent soo long and i can't find something impressive!!!

happening fish · Post by **happening fish** » 10/7/2005, 10:17 am

hmm... search something like "student bodies" in the image search and be surprised by the results?

dream in japanese · Post by **dream in japanese** » 10/7/2005, 10:19 am

that was a very terrifying show :no:

happening fish · Post by **happening fish** » 10/7/2005, 10:19 am

oh yeah? try the GIS :evil:

lol

dream in japanese · Post by **dream in japanese** » 10/7/2005, 10:21 am

alex....i complete have no idea what you mean.

Corey · Post by **Corey** » 10/7/2005, 10:32 am

tips I find useful:

first is the obvious... use quotes.
Your results will be much better if you use something like:
"our lady peace"
instead of:
our lady peace

second, site search:
I love doing searches on specific domains. For example:
duncan site:www.clumsymonkey.net
will give me results from only this website that involve duncan.

third, get rid of stuff you don't care about:
our lady peace -church
so you don't get the band confused with the church

Maybe everyone knew all of these things already but they are very useful if you don't.

dream in japanese · Post by **dream in japanese** » 10/7/2005, 10:35 am

yeah they're cool stuff corey but i've already had to play around with features like that for this assignment, now he wants something not commonly known...

but thanks.. :duncan:

Corey · Post by **Corey** » 10/7/2005, 10:36 am

I just thought of another thing I used it for a once.

I downloaded a pdf one time that had info in it I needed. The only problem was that it was written in Japanese. I used google to translate the document and got what I needed to know.

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 10/7/2005, 10:42 am

Something I love... if you throw a math problem into the search, it'll calculate it for you.

Or, if you put something like:

25 USD to CAD

It'll convert it for you.

:love:

Google.

dream in japanese · Post by **dream in japanese** » 10/7/2005, 10:47 am

yup i knew all of those... :nod:

i was actually thinking of using the calculator but i just wanna see if i can find more impressive stuff!

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 10/7/2005, 10:49 am

Hehe, good luck!

dream in japanese · Post by **dream in japanese** » 10/7/2005, 10:50 am

starseed_10 · Post by **starseed_10** » 10/7/2005, 11:58 am

I haven't looked through these, but they seem pretty helpful

http://www.google.com/features.html
http://www.google.com/options/

Jay84 · Post by **Jay84** » 10/7/2005, 12:20 pm

if you do a search for "bush baby" and then stare at your monitor for
a really long time, you can see a hidden "magic eye" image of a
deodorant stick....

yeah...i got nothing.

bovine · Post by **bovine** » 10/7/2005, 1:21 pm

I think most people already know this, but if you type in "miserable failure" and then click "I'm feeling lucky" it brings up the whitehouse.gov bio for george w bush. I read somewhere why it does that...it's actually NOT programed by the people at google. Apparently a bunch of people put the words "miserable failure" on tons of websites and made those words into a link to the gwb page. Google just picks up the fact that across the internet the term "miserable failure" is often associated with a link to that page, so it takes you there.

Now if only these techies could make whitehouse.gov play Wipe That Smile Off Your Face when you go to it...that would be classic!

:::troy:::

Hope · Post by **Hope** » 10/7/2005, 1:25 pm

about 2 years ago you could type in 'weapons of mass destruction' ad click im feeling lucky and get a page that said 'weapons of mass destruction not found', etc, etc, etc. im sure everyone knows what im talking about

Random Name · Post by **Random Name** » 10/7/2005, 1:30 pm

Would anything related to google count?
Like Froogle? or Google Talk?

pit_girl1 · Post by **pit_girl1** » 10/7/2005, 1:37 pm

Hope wrote:about 2 years ago you could type in 'weapons of mass destruction' ad click im feeling lucky and get a page that said 'weapons of mass destruction not found', etc, etc, etc. im sure everyone knows what im talking about

There was a similar thing about "French military victories". Not sure if it's still like that though.

EDIT: Yeah, it's still there. Type in that phrase and click the feelin lucky button. It's rather hilarious.

Post by **faninor** » 10/7/2005, 2:21 pm

I like how lots of other websites and stuff can have search features that are powered by Google. There's even a site that is just a search website that's powered by Google, but every so often when someone searches, they win an award.