# Sometimes I just love Google.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-just-love-google/318341
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 23, 2005, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-just-love-google/318341 "2005-08-23T22:43:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2005, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-just-love-google/318341/1 "2005-08-23T22:43:45Z")
So here I am. I want to prepare a brine for some chicken. I want a gallon. Well, I don’t have a gallon sized measuring cup, so I’m trying to remember how many cups make a gallon. Can’t remember, brain too tired to figure it out.
So I turn to my latest best friend, Google. She’ll know, I’m thinking. I google:
How many cups to a gallon
What does Google do? She comes right back with “16 cups, you lazy dumbass.”
Ok, she didn’t really say lazy dumbass, that’s why I love her so.
You know, I’ve never been a math whiz. Did you know you can just ask Google? Hey Google, what’s a million divided by 186,000? She’ll just tell you.
I don’t bother with on-line dictionaries anymore. Google is faster. I just type in “define allegory,” and she tells me.
Google does such wonderful things sometimes.
Does Google make your day easier?
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### Author:  [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2005, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-just-love-google/318341/2 "2005-08-23T23:13:59Z")
Wow, I never realized. 16 cups in a gallon, 16 gallons in a keg. So a keg holds…ummm, Does google do math too?
[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=16+x+16&btnG=Google+Search](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=16+x+16&btnG=Google+Search)
yep. 256 cups.
What do 16 kegs make, aside from a slow weekend at the frat?
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2005, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-just-love-google/318341/3 "2005-08-23T23:14:02Z")
It my homepage and my favorite generalize tool. My portal to infinite knowledge.
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### Author:  [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2005, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-just-love-google/318341/4 "2005-08-23T23:24:05Z")
Sometimes, when I’m hungry, I’ll go to Google images, type in a certain food that I like, and just stare hungrily at the photos.
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2005, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-just-love-google/318341/5 "2005-08-23T23:42:59Z")
Google is about to launch their IM service, probably tomorrow. In fact, technically it’s up now, and I’m logged in as revtim with my client (Gaim) which support Jabber, the open IM protocol that Google is using.
Check this: [http://www.smashsworld.com/2005/08/im-on-google-talk-right-now.php](http://www.smashsworld.com/2005/08/im-on-google-talk-right-now.php) for instructions.
The speculation is that they will include a voice service, which likely you will have to use whatever client they release to make use of.
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### Author:  [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2005, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-just-love-google/318341/6 "2005-08-23T23:43:27Z")
My company offers a flex plan spending account. You put aside pre-tax money and use it to pay for OTC medical expenses, and you are reimbursed. Any you don’t use during the course of the year, you lose. Mr. brown thought my company was pulling a fast one and demanded an explanation of why we forfeit unused sums. I went to Google and typed in “flex plan unused forfeit” and came up with a gajillion sites explaining the IRS regulations which require this forfeiture in all flex plans.
He still won’t like it, but I guess he won’t argue with the IRS.
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### Author:  [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2005, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-just-love-google/318341/7 "2005-08-23T23:52:15Z")
> [@Google](#):
>
> 1 acre = 160 square rods
Not bad. Kilometres seem to be more problematic.
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2005, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-just-love-google/318341/8 "2005-08-24T00:31:09Z")
“Sometimes”? Sometimes you love Google? Heretic!
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### Author:  [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2005, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-just-love-google/318341/9 "2005-08-24T05:53:31Z")
I’ve used that conversion feature! Very nifty.
Also… you can plug in your UPS, Fed Ex etc. tracking number, and…
Google is amazing.
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### Author:  [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2005, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-just-love-google/318341/10 "2005-08-24T07:17:24Z")
I love it.
When I wanted to tell someone how much gas costs here, but struggled with the metric to US conversion, I typed:
6 Rand per litre in USD per gallon.
And sure enough, it came up with 3.50/gallon. Tackled both the currency conversion AND the metric conversion without a hiccup.
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### Author:  [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2005, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-just-love-google/318341/11 "2005-08-24T07:42:22Z")
I’m a tester for a game in production that involves a detailed reproduction of Manhattan. Now when sombody tells me to check out the restaurant near so-and-so intersection, I whip out Google Maps and - bam! - I’m cruising at 70 mph down the wrong direction of one-way streets in the blink of an eye.
Oh, and [Google Talk](http://www.google.com/talk/) (the IM client) is up and running. The voice chat is up there with Ventrilio in terms of quality! [psst: MPrime (at) google (dot) com if you need a buddy]
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### Author:  [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2005, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-just-love-google/318341/12 "2005-08-24T16:11:36Z")
> [@GorillaMan](#):
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> Not bad. Kilometres seem to be more problematic.
Try “kilometers.” Or just “km.”
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2005, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-just-love-google/318341/13 "2005-08-24T16:32:12Z")
I got through three-quarters of dinner one day last week, was making tacos. Everything’s at the last few minutes when I realize - Shit! I forgot the stoopid taco seasoning. SO’s already left work and will be here in a matter of minutes, and he has no cell phone, what do I do, _what do I do_?
Hop onto Google and find out how to make homemade taco seasoning. Yum!
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### Author:  [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2005, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-just-love-google/318341/14 "2005-08-24T16:33:07Z")
I love the language tools. Every day, I have to get my boss to cancel multiple orders, which I usually print out, write “cancel” on, and leave on her desk. Eventually, that got boring. So I go check with my friend Google. Now I can say “Consign this order to the fiery pits of damnation” in several languages, rather than just the uber-pedestrian “cancel” I’d used before.
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### Author:  [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2005, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-just-love-google/318341/15 "2005-08-24T18:26:43Z")
I love the Google calculator. I like putting in weird conversions, just for fun.
1 cubit = 4 572 000 000 angstroms
1 Astronomical Unit = 26 925 486 leagues
1 Parsec = 1.53388225 × 10[sup]14[/sup] furlongs
😃
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### Author:  [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2005, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-i-just-love-google/318341/16 "2005-08-24T21:18:07Z")
> [@Enginerd](#):
>
> Try “kilometers.”
Interestingly, that spelling only wins a googlefight 4:1
Nonetheless, you’re right: **1 kilometer = 4.97096954 furlongs**