Google gave me $10 to sign up for their Checkout service. When I was done, they presented me with a list of suggested stores, including quite a few useful ones, and then many, many dotcom failure stores. Examples below. I think I'll just get some cat toys, which is what I did in '98 or so when pets.com gave me $10 ( Read more... )

The Exploding Aardvark found a Google search string that produces really awful results. I myself prefer the Google Images results for the same phrase.

PUERILE GIGGLES AND/OR TOTAL CONFUSION AMONG THE INTERNET HORDES IS SURE TO RESULT FROM TODAY'S GOOGLE CHOICE


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This one is flying around myspace, etc. You put in your name in a quoted string followed by "looks like" and see what Google says. My first result:

"On the surface, Conrad looks like a cute kid - like Opie from Mayberry."

Even better, it's from this news story: ( I assaulted someone with a knife )

why, when I search Google for "rio texas" does it give me two sets of results about things like the Rio Grande and Del Rio, TX with a set of results about Aristophanes sandwiched between them ( Read more... )

Google's new blog search is pretty nifty if you either like searching through people's weblogs or are an egotist who likes to kiboze. I'm both. Since I've always been a shameless self-promoter and I ping all available services, index myself in search engines etc. this is just peachy.

The way LJ did it was to provide a large-scale XML data feed of ( Read more... )

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I know a lot of guys name their penises. I've never done that. I just decided to call mine "google". That way I can laugh like Beavis & Butthead whenever the company or the website is mentioned, or talk about "checking Google" etc. Minutes of fun await me.

Also, as eyeteeth just pointed out, lol "googlewhack".

http://www.busmonster.com/

This is a cool google maps application for bus travel in Seattle, with routes, traffic conditions, etc. We should have this here! Oh wait, our public transit isn't worth mapping. Never mind!

buzztracker syndicates the daily feed from Buzztracker, a geographical rendering of the world's hot news spots generated from Google News.

Sample from today:


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