Yep, point taken. It’s more for fun than anything 
If you look up the rough art style, the Wikipedia might prove helpful… (this, coming from somebody who knows nothing about art!)
What a cool game.
I now know what a Noogle is, and am even more jealous of them than I was before.
I’m an excellent googler, because I can figure out the right combo of search terms I need to find what I’m looking for, not because I can guess what someone else looked for.
I’m sorry but you’re mistaken. That was one of the easiest ones to solve, and like I said I don’t own an ipod and it would’ve been days before I thought of the nano/ipod connection. Like Sublight said, you just google nano without the excluded word. Strategies like this worked for all the ones I did. I had no idea what google’s unofficial motto was, but I found it in about 2 seconds.
Yeah, I blazed right through that one, but my friend… “Crisco” took his ball and went home.
I was able to get the image one ok, but the stock quote is driving me batty. Anyone get that one yet?
Well, it could be that i completely misunderstood the nature of the game, but i thought the idea was precisely that you are supposed to be able to fill in the blanks without resorting to using Google. Is that not the case?
I don’t think so. Then it’d just be a guessing game. I never would’ve gotten google’s unofficial motto. I’d guess few outside the IT industry would.
Ok, I got the stock one finally. Had to cheat (found the answers…using Google, of course.)
I’ve finished the main level and now I’m on to level 2.0.
That is the opposite of the case. You’re supposed to get better at using Google, by using it in new ways.
What am I doing wrong on 1.8? I’m entering what I think is the right answer,
2^21
but no dice.
There’s only one ? on each side of the ^, so each number has to be a single-digit number.
Can someone point me in the right direction for the image search one? Its Level 1.D.
The style of painting shown is Impressionism. The Wiki for that style contains the answer.
Got it! I was on the wrong track but after a bad search I accidentally found the answer.
By virtue of checking the Jay is Games discussion thread, I was able to figure that out after some considerable head-pounding.
A hint:
It’s a fairly well-known software company whose products you are quite likely to have used (at least the freeware version); the asterisks in the name (ie, the middle word) correspond to “Systems”.
Answer:
Adobe
That was what I thought too. I got bored and stopped after the one where the answer was Google’s informal corporate motto – I wasn’t interested in playing some tech geek trivia game.
If the purpose of the game is really to answer the questions by using Google on your own then I have to say it’s not very well set up. The only instructions are “Can you figure out what is being searched for by looking at the results?”, which suggests that the players are ONLY supposed to be looking at the results presented and not searching in Google for themselves.
I really think you’re meant to Google for answers, even if it doesn’t explicitly state this. How else are you supposed to know tech trivia, the year of a particular Olympics, the artist of a random portrait, do that exponential math question, figure out a particular patent number, know Japanese, etc.? Plus, once you get to level 2.0, it says:
Yes, it’s meant to help you refine your Google searching skills not by teaching you about the various tools in the puzzles (although I’m learning a good deal about the search engine I didn’t previously know) but by making you do your own searches to find the answers.
[del]That said, I’m irritated with 1.7. I have the answer, but it won’t register properly.[/del] Never mind, I did have the wrong answer. :o