# I didn't know Google could do this **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 9, 2004, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-google-could-do-this/279004 "2004-12-09T21:53:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RandomLetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@RandomLetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandomLetters)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-google-could-do-this/279004/21 "2004-12-10T08:09:02Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Apparently, it doesn’t know what a ‘hogshead’ is, either. > > I’m disappointed. So am I. How else are we supposed to know how much gas Grandpa Simpson’s car burns? ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-google-could-do-this/279004/22 "2004-12-10T09:44:55Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Apparently, it doesn’t know what a ‘hogshead’ is, either. > > I’m disappointed. Doesn’t know what an erg/s is either. ---
**Author:** ![bob\_loblaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@bob\_loblaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_loblaw)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-google-could-do-this/279004/23 "2004-12-10T10:40:51Z")
google tells me that 4 shitloads in rat’s asses = i love bumblebee tuna. now that’s impressive. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-google-could-do-this/279004/24 "2004-12-10T14:49:38Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > And you can get this and some other basic Google functions from any cell phone via SMS to GOOGL. > > [http://www.google.com/sms/howtouse.html](http://www.google.com/sms/howtouse.html) AWESOME!! ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-google-could-do-this/279004/25 "2004-12-10T18:59:30Z")
You can even use scientific notation: [3 x (10^22) (cubic light years) = 2.54019722 × 10^76 cc](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2coff=1&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=3+x+10%5E22+cubic+light+years+in+cc&btnG=Search) Wow. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-google-could-do-this/279004/26 "2004-12-10T19:05:28Z")
Personally, I have a theory that Google is the real-life incarnation of [SKYNET](http://www.goingfaster.com/term2029/skynet.html), but it just hasn’t realized it yet. Thus being, I’m heading for the hills tonight. I may be in hiding and off the boards for quite a while. . . :eek: Tripler That is to say, if the SDMB is even _left_ after the war begins. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-google-could-do-this/279004/27 "2004-12-10T19:18:13Z")
Here’s something I know Google can do, but I can’t find out how. You give it an URL, and it gives you some of the queries that found that URL ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-google-could-do-this/279004/28 "2004-12-10T19:26:31Z")
One more (for now). [Complex mathematics.](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2coff=1&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=sqrt%28-5%29+x+3%5Ei%2B%28i%5E2%29&btnG=Search) ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-google-could-do-this/279004/29 "2004-12-10T19:34:44Z")
I use Google for definitions and spell checking. I didn’t know about the math part. I wish it could’ve taken my TABE test for me today. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-google-could-do-this/279004/30 "2004-12-10T20:37:26Z")
Google is SKYNET ?? I think it’s _more_ sinister. Google™ is offering more and more “free” stuff, thereby creating unfair competition for all the other websites. Who knows? Maybe soon there will be a Google SDMB, a Google Movie Database, a Google Urban Legend debunking page, etc. Eventually, _all_ existing websites will be trampled into the sands of cyber-time non-existence leaving only one megalith leviathin colossus - GOOGLE !!! And what happens when Google is the _only_ website left on the Internet? All that friendly free stuff is going to disappear. Have you noticed that already Google is charging $2 to answer one question? This is just the beginning. So folks, have fun while it lasts. Google will show its true face eventually. BWA-HA-HA !!! ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-google-could-do-this/279004/31 "2004-12-10T21:14:24Z")
Check this out: [http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en](http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en) Type in a query as normal. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-google-could-do-this/279004/32 "2004-12-10T22:08:38Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > [Google Chat Bot](http://douweosinga.com/projects/googletalk) Wow. That was exciting. > [@crappy stupid website](#): > > the spaceman’s dog did did did DID DID DID DID DID DID DID DID DID DID DID DID DID DID DID DID DID DID DID DID DID DID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID dID ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-google-could-do-this/279004/33 "2004-12-10T22:25:51Z")
> [@+MDI](#): > > Check this out: [http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en](http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en) > Type in a query as normal. Now it’s psychic. That is scary! ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-google-could-do-this/279004/34 "2004-12-10T22:40:51Z")
**chaotic donkey** That’s what I got. I typed in some lyrics from a Yardbirds’ song and then this came up… Backwards forward square and round Yardbirds Bass Tab did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did … etc ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-google-could-do-this/279004/35 "2004-12-10T22:59:59Z")
**CD** , entering ‘microsoft’ returns: microsoft Corporation. All Rights and the World, of the World, of the World, of the World,… ‘chaos and corruption’ returns: chaos and corruption that enables the user to the computer Science. Department at the University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Cheap Hotel Discount. Hotel. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-google-could-do-this/279004/36 "2004-12-11T05:11:15Z")
> [@+MDI](#): > > Check this out: [http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en](http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en) > > Type in a query as normal. Query: “the capital of Australia.” > [@](#): > > the capital of Australia is Canberra. Its population is being Fulfilled by the end of the world. As we know it. Sergio Zyman September Fulfilled, with a capital ‘F’? What does Google know that we don’t? Someone ought to check this Sergio Zyman guy out. :eek: Adam Didn’t know the capital of Australia was Canberra, by the way. I thought it was Sydney. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-google-could-do-this/279004/37 "2004-12-11T07:01:29Z")
. Pliny the Elder was a dunce did did did did did you see the Lightning. flash, and the thunder and the lightning I ll be the One. I m hoping ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-google-could-do-this/279004/38 "2004-12-11T07:24:53Z")
Hey this is fun! Had to test out the Microsoft one, then back on the thread, got to read this amusing bit. > [@Squink](#): > > \*\*CD[/b… > ‘chaos and corruption’ returns: > chaos and corruption that enables the user to the computer Science. Department at the University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Cheap Hotel Discount. Hotel. Strathclyde Univ is nearby me - I wonder whether they know how Google (or certain naughty students?) feel about them. Tee hee and seasonal ho ho ho. I’m sure that is very unfair - we all know that chaos and corruption should lead to the city council. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-google-could-do-this/279004/39 "2004-12-12T20:53:42Z")
> [@Zyada](#): > > Here’s something I know Google can do, but I can’t find out how. You give it an URL, and it gives you some of the queries that found that URL I think link: is what you’re talking about. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-google-could-do-this/279004/40 "2004-12-12T22:58:27Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > . > > Pliny the Elder was a dunce did did did did did you see the Lightning. flash, and the thunder and the lightning I ll be the One. I m hoping I put the words “Once upon a midnight” into the Google talk. I was suprised to get not the text of _The Raven_, but a computer programming parody of said poem. And then there’s this, apparently from the Obsessive-Compulsive division of the U.S. Department of State\*: > [@](#): > > Dead pirates Society, A Shift in the last of the United States Department of State. US Department of State. US Department of State. Legislatures NCSL) and the US Department of State. Archives is a racket. War is a racket. War is a racket. War is a racket. War is a racket. \*Before anyone takes offense, I actually am obsessive-compulsive. It just sounded like the perfect gag to describe the end result. War is a racket. War is a racket. War is a racket. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-google-could-do-this/279004.md?page=1)