The New York Times current number one technology article concerns tricks using Google. The average person might just use Google to search broadly on the internet. This article tells of ten alternate uses including:
-Calculator
-Speller
-Dictionary
-Telephone Area Code Finder
-Use the OR operator to be more broad in search terms
-Searching within one site only
-Search for Document types
-Do currency conversions
-Find the time around the world
Many of these features I already use such as the calculator feature and currency conversion. I believe these to be the most useful. I could see potential though in the site specific search. Most of the other uses seem not to be very useful. For example the Dictionary feature is not so important because you could just type in "(word of choice) dictionary.com". Finding area codes is kind of weird because it is almost a feature that would be used to stalk people based on their phone numbers by finding out where they live. The others are just features that are kind of obscure and would not be used very often. Besides these minor flaws, these Google search features are ones that can drastically improve a user experience on that website.
http://www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2010/04/02/02gigaom-10-simple-google-search-tricks-58674.html?src=me&ref=technology
that is very interesting.I never knew google had that.
ReplyDeleteI think being able to find out the time all around the world is useful if someone you know travels a lot and you want to keep in contact via the telephone.
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