nrg_alpha Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 I stumbled upon this list of obscure Google search tricks. It Appears Google has a few tricks up its sleeve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 I'm pretty sure most of that is documented, so I'm not really sure how it's obscure. Cool nonetheless. Edit: http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=136861 http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 Hrmmm seen a lot of those, but I had no idea on some. The flight one is pretty cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 Nice, some useful tools that I'll probably forget how to use by tomorrow, regardless, they're pretty cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 Here's really amazing one http://blag.xkcd.com/2009/04/06/a-date-idea-analyzed/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrg_alpha Posted May 10, 2009 Author Share Posted May 10, 2009 I'm pretty sure most of that is documented, so I'm not really sure how it's obscure. Cool nonetheless. Edit: http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=136861 http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html Yeah, no doubt you can find more detailed documentation (as you have provided with the additional links). Until last night, it was certainly obscure to me as I mainly treated Google as an effective 'pr0n image' finder, for... reference purposes. Here's really amazing one http://blag.xkcd.com/2009/04/06/a-date-idea-analyzed/ Hehe.. at least now I know the formula for calculating how fast a lift has to go to get from the ground to height x in time for the sunset Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 as I mainly treated Google as an effective 'pr0n image' finder, for... reference purposes. Hmm... then you might want to try Google Unsafe Image Search [NSFW (duh)]. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrg_alpha Posted May 10, 2009 Author Share Posted May 10, 2009 as I mainly treated Google as an effective 'pr0n image' finder, for... reference purposes. Hmm... then you might want to try Google Unsafe Image Search [NSFW (duh)]. lol I wasn't serious (about the pr0n part anyway - although in my searches, I have run across such sites that offer well posed, well lit tasteful shots that would make great reference for digital paintings). I'm aware of Google's unsafe image searches - related to that, I was once taksed with modeling and texturing 3d sewers for a prototype game I was working one.. and I needed some image references for manhole covers (speaking of which, wtf?). Well, you can imagine the search results I got (Safesearch was off) (the search results now are actually deal with manholes and not... well, man holes). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 Here's really amazing one http://blag.xkcd.com/2009/04/06/a-date-idea-analyzed/ Using google for math owns. Screw calculators! lol.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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