A few days ago, someone in GQ posted a link to a reverse image search engine, TinEye. You’ll have to crop down the game’s image, though.
A trick I used on some of them, where one of the results contained the search terms questioned-out, was to copy a sentence or so from the preview text and Google for that, in quotes. That would then get me to the actual site, where I could see what the redacted text was.
But how was one supposed to get the stock quote one? I can get the answer, but I still have no clue about the method.
When you go into Google Images (images.google.com), go into the advanced search. If you plug in one of the dimensions of the pictures, you’ll get a handful of images, one of which is shown on the screen. From there, you should be able to figure it out.
I had to cheat to get the Finance one. Can anyone figure out how you should be able to look up a closing price on any given day?
Since some people are having trouble with the stock quote, I’ll share my method.
I used the Google Finance stock screener. I checked the market cap, and noticed it was fairly high (18.7B). Given that the stock market averages are at a lower level than they were on May 12, 2006, I figured that the market cap would probably be lower now, but probably still at least 1B. (I’m actually not sure if this is a valid assumption.)
After listing the companies with market cap > 1B and restricting the list to NASDAQ companies, I looked through the list to find companies with the name “Incorporated” in them.
At this point I got a little lucky since the answer was at the top of the list. If the answer wasn’t staring me in the face at that point I probably would have modified the market cap range to be more restrictive (something like 4B-36B only returns 54 stocks).
ETA: In case it wasn’t clear, the reason why the answer was obvious is because the stock name has two words before “Incorporated” and the number of ? and * symbols indicates how many letters are in each word. So the first word has 5 letters and the second word has 7.