Hi,
I was not very sure where to put this, so I chose this place because it might be beneficial to the researchers and people doing their projects.
There are many ways we could make use of www.google.com. Not many would be aware of its complete usefulness. So here it is:
See:
http://earth.google.com/
Now covering some Indian sites also.
http://www.keyhole.com/body.php?c=popup&h=support&t=cover ageListVisual
See the Bangalore satellite map. :)
www.ncb.ernet.in/~rahul/GoogleEarth_bangalore.jpg
Also:
http://video.google.com
Pasting some tips from an article that David Pogue published in The NY Times.
* Phrase your question in the form of an answer.
So instead of typing,
"What is the average rainfall in the Amazon basin?",
you might get better results by typing "The average rainfall in the Amazon basin is."
* This is an old one, but very important: Put quotes around phrases that must be searched together. If you put quotes around "electric curtains," Google won't waste your time finding one set of web pages containing the word "electric" and another set containing the word "curtains."
* Similarly, put a hyphen right before any word you want screened out. If you're looking up dolphins, for example, you'll have to wade through a million Miami Dolphins pages unless you search for "dolphins -Miami."
* Google is a global White Pages and Yellow Pages. Search for "phonebook:home depot Norwalk, CT," Google instantly produces the address and phone number of the Norwalk Home Depot. This works with names ("phonebook:Robert Jones Las Vegas, NV") as well as businesses.
Don't put any space after "phonebook." And in all of the following examples, don't type the quotes I'm showing you here.
* Google is a package tracker. Type a FedEx or UPS package number (just the digits); when you click Search, Google offers a link to its tracking information.
* Google is a calculator. Type in an equation ("32+2345*3-234=").
* Google is a units-of-measurement converter. Type "teaspoons in a gallon," for example, or "centimeters in a foot."
* Google is a stock ticker. Type in AAPL or MSFT, for example, to see a link to the current Apple or Microsoft stock price, graphs, financial news, and so on.
* Google is an atlas. Type in an area code, like 212, to see a Mapquest map of the area.
* Google is Wal-Mart's computer. Type in a UPC barcode number, such as "036000250015," to see the description of the product you've just "scanned in." (Thanks to the Google Blog, http://google.blogspace.com, for this tip and the next couple.)
* Google is an aviation buff. Type in a flight number like "United 22" for a link to a map of that flight's progress in the air. Or type in the tail number you see on an airplane for the full registration form for that plane.
* Google is the Department of Motor Vehicles. Type in a VIN (vehicle identification number, which is etched onto a plate, usually on the door frame, of every car), like "JH4NA1157MT001832," to find out the car's year, make, and model.
* For hours of rainy-day entertainment, visit http://labs.google.com. Here, you'll find links to new, half-finished Google experiments-like Google Voice, in which you call (650) 623-6706, speak the words you want to search for, and then open your browser to view the results. Disclaimer: It wasn't working when I tried it. (Ditto a lot of these experiments.)
* Poke around the "Services & Tools" link on the Google.com homepage, and you'll find some of the better-known lesser-known Google features, if that makes any sense.
For example, there's Froogle (product search), News, Groups (Internet discussion boards), Google Catalogs (hundreds of scanned-in product catalogs), Images (find graphics and photos from other people's websites), Blogger (publish your own online journal), Google language translation, Google Answers (pay a couple of bucks to have a professional researcher find the answers for you), and much more.
Regards,
Soumya Shankar
From India, Bangalore
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16I was not very sure where to put this, so I chose this place because it might be beneficial to the researchers and people doing their projects.
There are many ways we could make use of www.google.com. Not many would be aware of its complete usefulness. So here it is:
See:
http://earth.google.com/
Now covering some Indian sites also.
http://www.keyhole.com/body.php?c=popup&h=support&t=cover ageListVisual
See the Bangalore satellite map. :)
www.ncb.ernet.in/~rahul/GoogleEarth_bangalore.jpg
Also:
http://video.google.com
Pasting some tips from an article that David Pogue published in The NY Times.
* Phrase your question in the form of an answer.
So instead of typing,
"What is the average rainfall in the Amazon basin?",
you might get better results by typing "The average rainfall in the Amazon basin is."
* This is an old one, but very important: Put quotes around phrases that must be searched together. If you put quotes around "electric curtains," Google won't waste your time finding one set of web pages containing the word "electric" and another set containing the word "curtains."
* Similarly, put a hyphen right before any word you want screened out. If you're looking up dolphins, for example, you'll have to wade through a million Miami Dolphins pages unless you search for "dolphins -Miami."
* Google is a global White Pages and Yellow Pages. Search for "phonebook:home depot Norwalk, CT," Google instantly produces the address and phone number of the Norwalk Home Depot. This works with names ("phonebook:Robert Jones Las Vegas, NV") as well as businesses.
Don't put any space after "phonebook." And in all of the following examples, don't type the quotes I'm showing you here.
* Google is a package tracker. Type a FedEx or UPS package number (just the digits); when you click Search, Google offers a link to its tracking information.
* Google is a calculator. Type in an equation ("32+2345*3-234=").
* Google is a units-of-measurement converter. Type "teaspoons in a gallon," for example, or "centimeters in a foot."
* Google is a stock ticker. Type in AAPL or MSFT, for example, to see a link to the current Apple or Microsoft stock price, graphs, financial news, and so on.
* Google is an atlas. Type in an area code, like 212, to see a Mapquest map of the area.
* Google is Wal-Mart's computer. Type in a UPC barcode number, such as "036000250015," to see the description of the product you've just "scanned in." (Thanks to the Google Blog, http://google.blogspace.com, for this tip and the next couple.)
* Google is an aviation buff. Type in a flight number like "United 22" for a link to a map of that flight's progress in the air. Or type in the tail number you see on an airplane for the full registration form for that plane.
* Google is the Department of Motor Vehicles. Type in a VIN (vehicle identification number, which is etched onto a plate, usually on the door frame, of every car), like "JH4NA1157MT001832," to find out the car's year, make, and model.
* For hours of rainy-day entertainment, visit http://labs.google.com. Here, you'll find links to new, half-finished Google experiments-like Google Voice, in which you call (650) 623-6706, speak the words you want to search for, and then open your browser to view the results. Disclaimer: It wasn't working when I tried it. (Ditto a lot of these experiments.)
* Poke around the "Services & Tools" link on the Google.com homepage, and you'll find some of the better-known lesser-known Google features, if that makes any sense.
For example, there's Froogle (product search), News, Groups (Internet discussion boards), Google Catalogs (hundreds of scanned-in product catalogs), Images (find graphics and photos from other people's websites), Blogger (publish your own online journal), Google language translation, Google Answers (pay a couple of bucks to have a professional researcher find the answers for you), and much more.
Regards,
Soumya Shankar
From India, Bangalore
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Hey, let me know if it was help to anyone? Any thing more that I left out that Google can be innovated with. :) Regards, Soumya Shankar
From India, Bangalore
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Thanks a lot for all that info, especially the one about Google being a calculator and the ones about using quotes and using the hyphen in different cases. I am sure many would find this trivia damn useful. Please find and post more such entertaining yet extremely useful data. Thanks a lot.
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I remember seeing something about a Google image uploading service. Could you tell me if it is still there? I would still like to know where I could get it, what its name is, and if there are any outstanding features over other image uploading services, what it is?
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Hi,
I also came across this one but have not really checked it out - http://print.google.com. It is similar to an online library for books of all kinds, ranging from technologies and space to day-to-day life issues. For example, searching for J2EE will provide you with results for J2EE books that have been digitized by Google.
Try it out!!
Regards,
Soumya Shankar
From India, Bangalore
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I also came across this one but have not really checked it out - http://print.google.com. It is similar to an online library for books of all kinds, ranging from technologies and space to day-to-day life issues. For example, searching for J2EE will provide you with results for J2EE books that have been digitized by Google.
Try it out!!
Regards,
Soumya Shankar
From India, Bangalore
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