What are your favourite Google tricks?
 

The stuff that Google can do other than search. For example, I am often using the unit conversion. When I put in '3k in pounds' it gives me "3 kilograms = 6.61386787 pounds"

I am sure there are a ton more I don't know about though.

What Google tricks do you use?

these are cool, I use them most days

Google Translate http://translate.google.com/

Google Maps http://maps.google.com/

LOL heres one for you lmgtfy.com that you might like.

reverse phone directory and also a phone book.

F.ex "11gbp in SEK"

translate, $ conversion and few more

The "latest results for" scrolling thing freaked me out when I first noticed it, because it startled the hell out of me. For instance, go search new orleans saints. Within the top several results is a "latest results for" section which updates right before your eyes.

I use maps, conversion, site specific searches and such. Within maps, I like to tick the boxes for pics, vids, webcam and wiki. You can also search real estate just with maps.google by ticking the checkbox under the MORE button.

http://www.googlelabs.com/

New stuff they work on that's pre-beta.

Google earth is probably my favorite.

I use http://translate.google.com/ the most

I use the unit conversion thing almost daily... You know, for stuff like

1/8 ounce in grams

:1orglaugh

Woah, I'll have to check that out. I use maps.google all the time. And the converter is very handy.

lol nice

"Google Earth" is a very interesting feature that is available to everyone at http://earth.google.com/.


You can use it to zoom in on any location in the world and find maps of places. These are actual satellite photographs that zoom in very close to the earth.

Nice! thanks :)

The sit up and Beg is a good one.. But thats more of a webmaster trick for Google than a google trick for the people.

Type: translate and the word you want translated

I use this for news...
http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/

For traveling, type in the airline and flight number, google will return the times the plane departs, gets in, delayed, etc..

Or you can type math directly in: ((100 * 100) / 50) + 2 or you can just type 100 x 100 / 50 + 2 and it gives the answer as you're typing it out.

You can check what time it is all over the world without having to look at a world clock: Search: Time in NY

Google has so many...

Intitle:"Index of /" mp3

Nice! One I didn't know...

My favorite google trick, tapping into CCTV security cameras :1orglaugh

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...&aq=f&aqi=&oq=

if you know what footprints to search for, there's thousands upon thousands of CCTV cameras linked into the net. You can even control some of them and move the cameras around! :1orglaugh

That is so cool! But how do you find out which footprints to search for or you can search for?

Google isn't watching so it's okay :)

Search in images, return faces only add: &imgtype=face

Search for: cars, click the + Show Options, Click Wonder wheel. ~ Enjoy

^^ crazy! I just spied on some people in a paddle boat.

i once followed some janitor around in what looked like an asian business building?It was great he totally knew the camera was following him and kept looking into it. I thought it was the most amazing thing ever. :1orglaugh


for excessive awesome the axis cctv's have a default login of root:pass, go hard.

awesome, bookmarked!

google is watching!

I like their search button, I can type in whatever it is I'm looking for, press that button, then the bestest sites in the web are displayed. I love it. It gives me wood.

i got a hardon yesterday from that very thing

Lots of time is the conversion.

Fuckin eh. Although I think I watched a drug deal get busted by the cops. Fucking loser.

google trends:thumbsup

good stuff...

Killer, this has to be the least useless sarah maxcash thread ever.. . I rarely click on them.

Well, you learn something new everyday.

unit conversion and translate here

Great thread, I'm bookmarking it.

Something I usually use is when I want to search something within just one site, you just add to the search "site: www.thesiteIwanttolookinto.com" and you're done.

:thumbsup

BTW, I didn't konw about the wonder wheel. :thumbsup

I didn't even really know about the translate until recently. I was still going to Bablefish.

I'd forgotten about all of the axis cams online...

The fun thing about loading up the first few results is that others are using them too... it's time for panning wars!!! :D