55 Ways to Have Fun With Google

✍ Scribed by Philipp Lenssen

• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 229
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

You probably use Google everyday, but do you know... the Google Snake Game? Googledromes? Memecodes? Googlesport? The Google Calculator? Googlepark and Google Weddings? Google hacking, fighting and rhyming? In this book, you'll find Google-related games, oddities, cartoons, tips, stories and everything else that's fun. Reading it, you won't be the same searcher as before! No programming skills needed. (From the author of Google Blogoscoped.)

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
......Page 1
Title Page
......Page 2
ISBN 10: 1411693418 ISBN 13: 9781411693418......Page 3
Contents......Page 5
Introduction......Page 9
1. Egogoogling: Susan Is…......Page 10
Male Names......Page 11
Female Names......Page 13
2. The Google Snake Game......Page 16
3. Memecodes: Survival of the Fittest Web Pages......Page 17
End Notes......Page 18
4. The Google Irritation Game, and the Google Image Quiz......Page 20
What can’t a man live by alone?......Page 21
Who let the dogs out?......Page 22
What shouldn’t you throw out with the bathwater?......Page 23
End Notes......Page 24
6. Browsing Images of a Site......Page 25
1957-1990: The Internet......Page 26
1994: Search Engines See the Light......Page 27
2003-Now: The Dawn of Search Engine Contests......Page 28
Kebapgraz......Page 29
Mangeur de Cigogne......Page 30
A Short Guide to SEO......Page 31
8. What is Google, and what do people consider fun about it?......Page 33
Asking a Google Novice......Page 34
Asking a Google Expert......Page 35
Opening a Coconut......Page 38
Creating a Revolutionary Method of Transportation......Page 39
10. Google Cookin’ a Lemon Chicken......Page 41
11. Douglas Adams and the Google Calculator......Page 42
12. Oops, I Googled Again......Page 43
End Notes......Page 45
13. The Disappearing Google Logo, a Magic Trick......Page 46
Worldwide reach......Page 47
Mashups galore......Page 48
15. Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack......Page 52
End Notes......Page 54
16. Google Q&A......Page 55
Permutated Sentences......Page 56
Spelling Words With Google Images Letters......Page 57
The Google Images Storyteller......Page 58
18. Design Your SketchUp Dream House......Page 59
19. Kevin Bacon and the Google Network......Page 60
End Notes......Page 62
20. The Google Alphabet......Page 63
21. Google Search Tips......Page 64
22. Googlepark......Page 67
23. Googleshare......Page 77
24. The Shortest Google Search (and the One Returning the Most Results)......Page 80
25. Google Rotated and Mini Google......Page 81
26. The Google Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Google?......Page 83
How well did you do?......Page 85
27. Recreate Google From Memory......Page 87
28. The Strange World of Google News......Page 92
End Notes......Page 100
29. Aliens Attack Google!......Page 101
30. Top Ten Signs You Are Addicted to Google......Page 103
31. Dig a Hole Through Earth......Page 104
32. Googlebombing......Page 106
End Notes......Page 109
33. Google Ads Gone Wrong......Page 110
End Notes......Page 114
34. Life in the Age of Google......Page 115
Finding Seemingly Private Files......Page 119
Finding Chat Logs......Page 120
36. Googlepolls: Ask the Crowd......Page 122
Round 5: Cute Cats vs Ugly Dogs......Page 132
Round 10: Chick Flick vs Art Movie......Page 133
38. What If Google Was Evil? Plus: Five Inventions of the Google Future......Page 134
1. Google front-page now a portal......Page 135
2. Google Gmail with in-between ads and new connections to homeland security......Page 136
3. Google’s Blogger installing proprietary plug-in to run......Page 137
4. Google search results strongly biased......Page 138
5. Infamous cookie set loose in world’s biggest information merger......Page 139
6. Google spamming your mailbox......Page 140
7. Google making you pay for Google Groups......Page 141
8. Google Toolbar asks you to register......Page 142
9. Google’s AdSense Displaying Subliminal Messages......Page 143
10. What if Google Was Lazy?......Page 144
Five Google Inventions of the Future Number 1: The Google GoBot......Page 145
Number 2: Google Satellite......Page 146
Number 3: Google ImageSpy......Page 147
Number 4: Google AdWalls......Page 148
Number 5: Google Bodyparts......Page 149
39. The Google Adventure Game......Page 151
40. Egobot, Voice of the Web......Page 152
41. Fun Google Gadgets......Page 155
Jake Found His Mother......Page 161
The PageRank 100 Incident......Page 163
The Online Brain......Page 167
The Google Robot FAQ......Page 169
43. The Google Book of World Records......Page 176
End Notes......Page 180
44. Spelling Errors Galore......Page 181
Microsoft Not Downwards-Compatible......Page 183
Madonna’s Early Years......Page 184
First Mention of Bruce Willis......Page 185
Seinfeld......Page 186
Friends, the New TV Show......Page 187
Google Too Cluttered......Page 188
46. Growing a Google Word......Page 189
47. Most Popular Words, and PopSents......Page 191
48. Create Google Poetry, Prose, and Collages......Page 196
A Strange Google Journey......Page 197
Google Rhyming......Page 202
Creating Google Book Search Collages......Page 203
Drunk Adults......Page 204
Comedian......Page 205
The Numa Numa Song......Page 206
Strange Weather Forecasts......Page 207
The Fisherman and His Wife: The Original......Page 208
The Fisherman and His Wife: The Synonym Version......Page 209
51. Google Parodies......Page 211
How It Really Works......Page 218
53. Fun With Google Translations......Page 219
54. The Giant Google Painting......Page 220
55. Googledromes......Page 225
Acknowledgments......Page 226
Glossary......Page 227