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Google is awesome. Yes, there have been questions raised about its new privacy policy and creepy
Safari tracking and frankly, it just knows way too much about everyone who has ever created a Google [ advertising enquiries ]
account. But let’s put that aside for a moment and focus on all its cool quirks, shall we?
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1. Walking to Mordor:
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If you’ve ever watched The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (or just seen various versions
of the meme) you may never stop laughing at this Google Maps quirk (or maybe it’s just me). If you try
to get walking directions from “The Shire” or “Rivendell” to “Mordor” (and ignore the suggestions that
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pop up), Google will give you the route… and a warning. In other news, according to my Google Maps,
Mordor is located just outside Cape Town, South Africa. Nice.
2. Barrel roll:
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Endlessly entertaining, this one trended worldwide on Twitter in November. Simply search “do a barrel
roll” — if you have Google’s instant results functions enabled, your results page will be spinning before
you’ve completed the instruction.
3. 42:
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What is 42, you ask? Geez, it’s only the answer to life, the universe and everything. Ok, so if you’ve
never read or watched The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, you won’t get this one. But Google’s built-
in calculator will.
4. Gravity:
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If, by any chance, you feeling like searching “Google gravity” and hitting “I’m feeling lucky”, don’t be
surprised if Google comes crashing down around you the second you move the mouse.
5. Recursion:
Google pokes fun at its own “did you mean” suggestions if you search recursion (repetition or
returning) by questioning your spelling even though you didn’t make a mistake.
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6. Klingon:
So “GoogleDaq ylnej” means “Google search”. Hmmm. Who knew? Well, you, if you speak Klingon.
Yes, there is a Klingon version of Google. There is also a pirate and Elmer Fudd version, if that’s more
your thing.
7. Kerning:
Designers will love this one — kerning is the spacing between letters in a word. When you do a search
for kerning, Google changes the spaces between letters in the word ‘kerning’ in all the results. Heehee.
You see what they did there?
8. Hello, Nessy:
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Picture this: You’re working under a tight deadline, your clock is slowly counting the minutes past 3AM
and your coffee and Red Bull combo is failing. The sleep deprivation is starting to affect you — you are
starting to see things. You click to your home page, and there, rising gracefully from the dark waves in
your iGoogle theme, is the Lochness Monster.
No, you’re not hallucinating — you really did see Nessy. If you are ever awake and online at 3:14 AM
(those are the first three digits in Pi, by the way. Gosh, those Google nerds), and have the iGoogle
beach theme installed, Nessy will come to visit for a minute. If you’re not an insomniac, you can always
just change the timezone on your computer and in your iGoogle settings and just wait until 14 minutes
past the hour (I was in Bangkok last night, as far as Google knows).
9. Nagging Rams:
Similar to the ‘recursion’ response, if you search for ‘anagram’ (rearranging the letters in a word to
make a new word or phrase, in case you didn’t know), Google rearranges the letters to suggest you
were really searching for ‘nag a ram’.
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If you ever want to creep the Antarctic on Google Maps, you may be surprised to find the little orange
peg man you drag and drop to change to Google Street View has transformed into a fat little penguin.
Awwww.
11. Doodles:
What do you get if you don’t actually search for anything, and just hit ‘I’m feeling lucky’? A catalogue of
all the Google doodles — all the way back to 1998. There were just three in that year — there have
already been 69 in 2012.
If you type in the Konami code (a cheat code used in Konami games) in Google Reader, the side panel
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will turn blue and a cute ninja will appear on the left of your screen. Use your arrow keys and keyboard
to enter the code — it’s up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, followed by the letters B and A.
Ever wanted to see the people who work at Google doing cool things like Google Street View? Well, if
you hop along to the back of the Google offices in Mountain View, you can see them all.
14. Laundry:
There are a lot of things Gmail can do for you — filter spam, flood you with ads, apply a plethora of
pretty coloured labels to your messages — but, as yet, it can’t do your laundry. However, it is an option
on the ‘suggest a feature’ page for Gmail.
15. Pacman:
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It started out as a Google doodle to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Pacman in 2010, but the
Google Pacman game was so popular, it was given a permanent home.
Google “zerg rush” and prepare to defend your browser against hordes of the letter ‘o’ in Google’s
logo, which will start to destroy your search results. They’re apparently undefeatable, but you can try to
fight them off by clicking on them and share your high score on Google +. For those who aren’t familiar
with StarCraft, a ‘zerg rush’ is a tactic where swarms of aliens known as ‘zergs’ descend in multitudes in
order to overwhelm their enemies.
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Because Chuck Norris jokes never get old, there is a warning hidden in Google search results to ward
off those who dare to attempt to find him. Just search ‘find Chuck Norris’ and hit ‘I’m feeling lucky’ and
you’ll see what I mean.
Update:
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will be able to persuade you.
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em m a • 10 months ago
google find chuck norris
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An t Si m s • 11 months ago
Probably located above Gandalf's where Mordor used to be...
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ki rs ty • 10 months ago
go to gogologo click im feeling lucky then type your name then press enter
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Am i n Mo ti w a l a • 8 months ago
Superb Collection. Loved the post
Google Tricks
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Bl a h b l a h b l a h • 10 months ago
type in google sphere andclick im feeling lucky
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ki rs ty • 10 months ago
the chuck norris thing didnt work for me
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El vi e • a month ago
For the latest trick, you also are connected as "walker@rangers.tx.gov "
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Ga u ra v Sh a rm a • a month ago
I was surprised not to see the “define:” prefix in there. I constantly use Google as a
dictionary. Just open the browser, hit CTRL+K, then type in something like:
define: pizza
BTW, for zerg rush I used each page of results as a different level.
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Ap p l e • 3 months ago
i tried chuck norris and it showed him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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a n o n ym u s • 4 months ago
Some are good i like it but some are worst
dont work
not finding beach theme and who is nessey all is folks :p
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Mu n n a • 6 months ago
the 17th trick is not working. When I am searching Chuck Norris on google it showing
results.
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l o l ze r • 6 months ago
love it laughed and laughed
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s a i d e co rs • 7 months ago
amazing
http://saidecors.blogspot.in
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n i ce h e re 8 9 • 8 months ago
Those were really nice to me :) thanks for sharing such nice Google Tricks :)
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Carla — Great article. I'm wondering how so many abhishekacmic — Why does google say'sno to
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