55 Ways to Have Fun with Google

Philipp Lenssen

Lulu.com, 2006 - Computers - 228 pages

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.)

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Contents

• Introduction: 8
• Susan Is: 9
• 2 The Google Snake Game: 15
• Survival of the Fittest Web Pages: 16
• 4 The Google Irritation Game and the Google Image Quiz: 19
• 5 Googling Proverbs: 20
• 6 Browsing Images of a Site: 24
• 7 A Brief History of Googlesport: 25
• 8 What is Google and what do people consider fun about it?: 32
• 9 How Much Time Google Saves Us: 37
• 10 Google Cookin a Lemon Chicken: 40
• 11 Douglas Adams and the Google Calculator: 41
• 12 Oops I Googled Again: 42
• 13 The Disappearing Google Logo a Magic Trick: 45
• 14 Fun With Google Maps the Wiki Way: 46
• 15 Dave Gormans Googlewhack: 51
• 16 Google QA: 54
• 17 Celebrate Google NonWeddings and More: 56
• 18 Design Your SketchUp Dream House: 58
• 19 Kevin Bacon and the Google Network: 59
• 20 The Google Alphabet: 62
• 21 Google Search Tips: 63
• 22 Googlepark: 66
• 23 Googleshare: 76
• 24 The Shortest Google Search and the One Returning the Most Results: 79
• 25 Google Rotated and Mini Google: 80
• How Much Do You Know About Google?: 82
• 27 Recreate Google From Memory: 86
• 28 The Strange World of Google News: 91
• 29 Aliens Attack Google: 100
• 30 Top Ten Signs You Are Addicted to Google: 102
• 31 Dig a Hole Through Earth: 103
• 32 Googlebombing: 105
• 33 Google Ads Gone Wrong: 109
• 34 Life in the Age of Google: 114
• 35 Google Hacking: 118
• Ask the Crowd: 121
• 37 Googlefights: 131
• Five Inventions of the Google Future: 133
• 39 The Google Adventure Game: 150
• 40 Egobot Voice of the Web: 151
• 41 Fun Google Gadgets: 154
• A ScienceFiction Interlude: 160
• 43 The Google Book of World Records: 175
• 44 Spelling Errors Galore: 180
• 45 Google Groups Time Machine: 182
• 46 Growing a Google Word: 188
• 47 Most Popular Words and PopSents: 190
• 48 Create Google Poetry Prose and Collages: 195
• 49 Funny Google Videos: 203
• Telling a Story in Synonyms: 207
• 51 Google Parodies: 210
• 52 The Google Images Prediction Trick: 217
• 53 Fun With Google Translations: 218
• 54 The Giant Google Painting: 219
• 55 Googledromes: 224
• Acknowledgments: 225
• Glossary: 226

Bibliographic information

• Title: 55 Ways to Have Fun with Google
• Author: Philipp Lenssen
• Publisher: Lulu.com, 2006
• ISBN: 1411693418, 9781411693418
• Length: 228 pages
• Subjects: Computers / General; Computers / Information Technology