50 Things I know about Google

  1. Searching for “Eugene Roman” on Google will provide 540 articles, including his profile in the article Top 20 under 20
  2. Google Canada URL is www.google.ca
  3. Google maintains the largest number of Linux servers in the world.
  4. The Google interface can be searched in 117 languages including Elmer Fudd, Klingon and Bork-bork-bork!
  5. There are Google sites for 112 Countries.
  6. The Google Language tools translate any text between: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Koran and Chinese.
  7. Google News editions are available in Argentina - Australia - Brasil - Canada English - Canada Français - Chile - Deutschland - España - France - India - Italia - México - New Zealand - Österreich - Portugal - Schweiz - Suisse - U.K. - U.S. - (China) - (Hong Kong) - (Japan) - (Korea) - (Taiwan)
  8. The largest collections of on-line Web Blogs is maintained by Google at Blogger.com
  9. The Google Desktop (http://desktop.google.com) is your own private little Google server Google your desktop and the rest of your file system, mailbox, and instant messenger conversations-even your browser cache.
  10. Google also offers a web-based e-mail service Gmail.
  11. Gmail is one hot property and Gmail accounts are not available to just anyone. Yes, it's a free web mail service, but free doesn't necessarily mean freely available—much to the chagrin of those just itching to give it a whirl. You have to be invited, either by a Googler (someone working at Google) or a friend willing to spend one of their occasionally available Gmail invites on you.
  12. Gmail offers the largest storage space of any e-mail service – 2GB for storing mail.
  13. CapeMail queries Google via email. Send email to google@capeclear.com with the query in the subject line. You'll receive a message back with the estimated results count and the first 10 results.
  14. If you have your trusty cell phone or network-enabled PDA in your pocket, so too do you have Google. The Treo 600, Blackberry, or Sidekick with integrated web browser; base-model cell phone that your carrier gave you for free; Google caters to the "on the go" crowd with its Google wireless interfaces:
  15. There's even a mobile interface to Google's Froogle (http://froogle.google.com) product search.
  16. You can tailor a Google search box to return results of a particular slant (e.g., kids' content, computers: hacking, etc).
  17. An add-in to the Google Toolbar Google Compute borrows a few cycles from your computer as it sits idle and applies this computing energy to solve difficult scientific problems around the world.
  18. You can have a Personalised Search get the search results most relevant to you
  19. Google Maps - View maps, get driving directions, and search for local businesses and services.
  20. Google Maps can be overlaid with satellite photos of the location and combined together.
  21. Google Ride Finder - Find a taxi, limousine or shuttle using real time position of vehicles
  22. Google Scholar offers Search through journal articles, abstracts and other scholarly literature
  23. Google Labs, as the name suggests, sports Google's experiments, fun little hacks, and inspirational uses of the Google engine and database.(http://labs.google.com).
  24. Google SMS (http://www.google.com/sms) provides an SMS gateway for querying the Google Web index, looking up phone numbers, seeking out definitions, and comparative shopping in the Froogle product catalogue service (http://froogle.google.com).
  25. If you've ever wondered what people think of your hometown, your favourite band, your favourite snack food, or even you, Googlism (http://www.googlism.com) may provide you with something useful. For the most part, this is a party hack—a good party hack. It's a fun way to aggregate related statements into a silly (and occasionally profound) list.
  26. Google Alerts (http://www.google.com/alerts), Google's official alert offering, allows you to monitor both Google's Web index and Google News stories.
  27. Google Groups (http://groups.google.com). Its search interface is rather different from the Google Web Search, as all messages are divided into groups, and the groups themselves are divided into topics called hierarchies.
  28. The Google Groups archive begins in 1981 and covers up to the present day. Just shy of 850 million messages are archived.
  29. Google Groups also allows you to participate in Usenet discussions, not all ISPs provide access to Usenet these days.
  30. Google Groups 2 merges Usenet news with mailing lists.
  31. Google News (http://news.google.com/) culls around 4,500 news sources—from The Scotsman to The China Daily, The New York Times to The Minneapolis Star Tribune.
  32. The Google News front page is updated algorithmically without any involvement by humans—aside, of course, from those writing the news in the first place—several times a day. The "most relevant news" rises to the top. Stories are organized into clusters, drawing together coverage and photographs from various news sources around the Web.
  33. AdSense© (http://www.google.com/adsense) is Google's advertising service, intended to deliver just such advertising magic to your web site.
  34. The I'm Feeling Lucky™ button is a thing of beauty. Rather than giving you a list of search results from which to choose, you're whisked away to what Google believes is the most relevant page given your search, a.k.a. the top first result in the list.
  35. Google does not accept more than 10 query words, special syntax included. If you try to use more than ten, they'll be summarily ignored.
  36. The Google Advanced Search goes well beyond the capabilities of the default simple search, providing a powerful fill-in form for date searching, filtering, and more.
  37. Using the Language pull-down menu in the Advanced Search section of Google, you can specify what language all returned pages must be in, from Arabic to Turkish.
  38. Google local allows you to limit searches to a geographical location.
  39. Blogsearch allows you to find Blogs on your favourite subjects.
  40. Google Image search allows you to find images.
  41. Froogle (fru'gal) n. smart shopping through Google. – Online shopping search site to help you find products through the Internet
  42. The Answer to The Ultimate Question Of Life, the Universe and Everything
  43. Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.
  44. A free software download from Google, Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organised by date with folder names you will recognize
  45. Google Talk enables you to call or send instant messages to your friends for free–anytime, anywhere in the world.
  46. Google's strengths are searching, development of Open Source Internet services, and running clusters of tens of thousands of servers
  47. Two years ago Google had one data center. Today they are reported to have 64.
  48. Corporate Motto: Do No Evil
  49. Up to 25% of a Google employees time (GoogleFolk) can be spent on research – not to anything as part of their job, but just for the pure joy of reseach.
  50. Google's underground parking garages in Mountain View.
    There, in a secret area off-limits even to regular GoogleFolk, is a shipping container. But it isn't just any shipping container. This shipping container is a prototype data center. Google hired a pair of very bright industrial designers to figure out how to cram the greatest number of CPUs, the most storage, memory and power support into a 20- or 40-foot box. We're talking about 5000 Opteron processors and 3.5 petabytes of disk storage that can be dropped-off overnight by a tractor-trailer rig. The idea is to plant one of these puppies anywhere Google owns access to fibre, basically turning the entire Internet into a giant processing and storage grid, using GoogleBase as a starting point.<
    from I,Cringley

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