1 It's a calculator. Type '25 miles in kilometres' (without the quotes) into the search box and see what happens.
2 It can be manipulated to produce desired results. Try typing 'miserable failure' (without the quotes) and see what happens. This is called Googlebombing.
3 Googlewhacking is a game where you have to think of a single word which, when typed into the search box, will produce just a single 'hit'.
4 How many pages does Google index? Answer: nobody knows. Google used to publish a number under the search box (when last seen it was over 8 billion) but it has stopped doing that - possibly because Yahoo is now claiming to index 20 billion pages.
5 It does really useful online maps of the UK. Go to maps.google.co.uk. And you can search for restaurants, churches, bars or schools just by typing the appropriate term (e.g. 'restaurants in Bedford') in the search box.
6 Google's two co-founders are each worth about $7 billion. They are just 32 years old.
7 If you use Google's webmail, the messages reside forever on a Google server.
8 Google's power means that it knows more about each of us than any other internet search engine.
9 Google's Gmail software scans every email, identifies key phrases, and puts what it regards as relevant ads on the right-hand side of the screen.
10 Its services, such as Google Images, Google News, Froogle, Blogger, Google Mail and Google Maps can be accessed from any browser
Post je objavljen 02.10.2005. u 21:45 sati.