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Google Specific News & Updates
Weblog, Press, New, Unofficial Fan, Stuff Blog, Talkabout
Gmail New, Labs, Blog, Googlefan, Unofficial Blog, Slashdot
Various Searches Google
Answers, Barebones, Blog Search, Book, Cooking, FreshGoo, Froogle-Shopping, Groups, Images, Local, Maps, News, Personalized, Recipe, Scholar, Sets, Suggest, Translator, US Government & Military, Video, Web Quotes-appears to not be working
Fun Stuff
Google Zeitgeist, Logos, Lunar Office-April Fools ‘04, Pigeon Rank-April Fools ‘02, Easter Game ‘00, MentalPlex-April Fools ‘00, Google Swedish Chef, Google Pig Latin, Google Klingon, Google Elmer Fudd, Google Hack, Google X
Google Watch
Non Google Affiliated
Google SpamGoogle Fight-Battle one word search against another and see who winsHigh Low GameCapture the Map-a strategic game using the google search engineGoogle Mirror-this takes a few moments but worksGoogleJack!-Game
Keyboard Shortcuts
“keyboard+shortcut+word”(replace “word” with any other application name)
“intitle:baseball”(tells google to search for just words (ex-baseball) found in web page titles)
“inurl:baseball”(tells google to search only URLs of web pages)
File type searches in google. There are other in addition to HTML formatted pages, for example, “filetype:doc baseball,” will bring up only word documents. Switch “doc,” with any of the following possibilities
Adobe Acrobat (pdf)
Lotus 1-2-3 (wk1, wk2, wk3)
Microsoft Excel (xls)
Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt)
Rich Text Format (rtf)
Shockwave Flash (swf)
Text (ans, txt)
“intext:baseball”(google searches only in the body of text of web pages, not in the links, URL’s or titles)
“site:pcworld.com baseball”(limits google’s search for to a particular site (PC World)
“define:baseball”(opens definitions only)
Jump here to go to Google Recipe Search
Google Suggest-offers suggested searches
Taken from "PC World," October 2004, front cover insert
Tips & Shortcuts
--Movie Search
--Keyboard Shortcuts for various applications. Ex: Word. In the Google Search bar, type “keyboard+shortcut+word.” (replace “word” with any other application name)
--Searches only in the body of text of web pages, not in the links, URL’s or titles. Ex: Baseball. In the Google Search bar, type “intext:baseball.”
--Search within a particular site. Ex: PC World site, and the word computer. “site:pcworld.com computer.”
--Search for just words found in Web Page Titles. “intitle:baseball.”
--Search only URL’s of web pages. “inurl:baseball.”
--File type searches in google. There are others in addition to HTML formatted pages, for example, “filetype:doc baseball,” will bring up only word documents. Switch “doc,” with any of the following possibilities: Adobe Acrobat (pdf), Lotus 1-2-3 (wk1, wk2, wk3), Microsoft Excel (xls), Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt), Rich Text Format (rtf), Shockwave Flash (swf), Text (ans, txt)Further Applications
--Definitions: by including the special operator "define:" with no space between it and the term you want defined the search will show you a list of definitions gathered from various online sources. “define:baseball.”
--Calculator/Converter: The calculator is available by using the search bar to compute your problems. You can also use it to convert measurements. For example, Type “2 + 2” and the Google Calculator will compute that to equal “4,” Or try “4 tablespoons to teaspoons,” and get 12 teaspoons. You can even type “2005 in Roman” and the Google Calculator will compute “MMV.” Type “6 feet to meters” and get “1.8288 meters.” Or type “speed of light in furlongs per fortnight” and get the computed response “1.8026175 × 1012 furlongs per fortnight.” Clearly so.
--To check the weather type “weather zip code” in the google search bar.
--Who Links to You: Some words, when followed by a colon, have special meanings to Google. One such word for Google is the link: operator. The query link:siteURL shows you pages that point to that URL. For example, link:www.google.com will show you pages that point to Google's home page. You cannot combine a link: search with a regular keyword search.
--Travel Information: To see delays and weather conditions at a particular airport, type the airport's three letter code followed by the word "airport." For example, San Francisco International Airport updates can be found by searching for "sfo airport." To check the status of a U.S. flight, type the name of the airline followed by the flight number. For example, to see the status for United Airlines flight 134 search for "United 134."
Fun with google calculator
Google Bombing
Most people know what google bombing is by now. If you still don’t, you can learn about it all here. For the most part, people set up links to certain places. Whatever words related to the links would move its ranking up in google searches. So sometimes words brought up interesting number one search results.The Google search for “Weapons of Mass Destruction” used to take you here. “These Weapons of Mass Destruction Cannot be Displayed…”“Miserable Failure” (along with “worst president”) used to bring the White House Biography page for George W. Bush.
Google Search bar answers questions
Some people went even above and beyond to find these answers, Type “the answer to life, the universe, and everything” and get a humorous computed “42.” The answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything, as given by the supercomputer Deep Thought to a group of mice in Douglas Adams's comic science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is "forty-two". According to the Guide, mice are 3-dimensional profiles of a pan-dimensional, hyper-intelligent race of beings. They built Deep Thought, the second greatest computer of all time and space, to tell them the answer to the question of life, the universe and everything. After seven and a half million years the computer divulges the answer: forty-two.
Oddities
---MP3’s: Type “?intitle:index.of? mp3” into search bar followed by any artist. Click here or here to figure this out.
