Someone recently pointed out if you type a variety of gay terms into google it ads a rainbow at the end of the text bar. That made me smile.
What are some little googlisms you’ve noticed?
When you type in “gullible: define” you get a 404 Error.
I like the different logos they use for various holidays and such. The recent one for Les Paul’s birthday, with the guitar that you could play*, was clever.
- If you could call what I was doing “playing.”
I saw some videos of people actually playing recognizable songs. Very cool.
That one was great I just typed in random things to see what they sounded like.
shakes fist You made me do it.
That’s fantastic!
I love doing all sorts of maths, like unit conversions and currency conversions on Google. For some reason I can never keep track of how many cups/pints/quarts are in a pint/quart/gallon, or I want to price check something on Amazon.uk - and Google makes that very easy.
You magnificent bastard…
I use Google for all my off-the-cuff currency conversions, calculations, even some simple translations without having to go to Google translate.
It’s also very handy for typing in an unknown phone number and finding out why they phoned you. I even found one bank’s local sort code.
Or for checking spelling.
Obviously the other Google stuff like docs and gmail can do many things, but I think you were asking just about the search engine.
If Google someday does rule the world, it will be because it was so good at it that nobody could think of anything better.
It didn’t work for me! That means I must be …
Oh. :smack:
Well played. 
The joke worked because I remember things like typing in “idiot” and it coming with George Bush’s home page.
Type in what is the answer to life, the universe and everything?
GodDAMNIT! :mad:
If you think Google is good for that, you have got to try Wolfram Alpha. It’s approximately 10^10 times better when it comes to computational queries.
ETA: also check out the Chrome extension “Chromey Calculator”, which is powered by WA. It’s amazing and I use it constantly.
Yeah, but WA doesn’t have a little box in the top of my browser, and I don’t ever need to do the calculations that WA is capable of.
I use google calculator constantly. Wolfram alpha is nice too.
I also like the map feature. Type in the name of a location or local business and there it is, instant map!
Google also delivers instant weather forecasts. Type in the name of your location and the word “weather” and little sunny/rainy icons pop up along the temperature forecasts.
I just tried typing “gay” into Google and verified that it does indeed draw a rainbow. Awesome. I love Google.
If you search for “Recursion” it will prompt you above the search results "Did you mean: Recursion ". Feel free to keep clicking on it. 
Also Google calculator will tell you “number of horns on a unicorn”, “the loneliest number” as well as the frequency of “once in a blue moon”. (All searches without quotes.)
The fact that I can suck at doing search prompts and still get viable results. I don’t do the whole [word]+[another word] thing, because that’s just not the way my thought process works. I realize it’s a better way to search, and I probably should do it that way, but Google’s nice because it allows me to type in idiotic questions and still get actual answers.
My favorite was in Google Earth. They added maps of the moon and called it Google Moon. If you zoomed in as far as you could go, it showed green cheese.
Google Maps. Enter Japan as your starting point and China as your finishing point. Read the directions.
Ooh! <Hijack!>
In the late 80s, I worked at a local local law library. The had an online card catalog system that included a map of the library, so you could look up where books were.
If you zoomed out far enough, you’d get a map of the campus, then the city, the state, the country, the planet, and the solar system. I don’t remember if it went further than that.
If you zoomed in, you got a picture of the computer with an arm on it to use it..then the hand, and eventually down to the cellular level.
Fun stuff.
</Hijack!>
I like that Google will actually use these in a calculation..
baker’s dozen + number of horns on a unicorn
gives you 14.
-D/a
Today (Father’s Day) the ‘l’ is a tie, which is cute. On Richard Scarry’s birthday, the ‘l’ was Lowly Worm.