Google Diddling Sample Round - 1

Set 1

1. What's on Google's homepage? A. Just Google's logo. B. Google's logo, a search box, and two banner ads. C. Google's logo, a search box, a link to job openings at Google, and a copyright notice. D. Google's logo, a search box, some links, a copyright notice, and perhaps a weather report, news headlines, or stock quotes if you personalized Google's homepage. 2. What happens if you enter a query such as google tutorial on Google's homepage and then click the I'm Feeling Lucky button? A. B. C. D. You're shown one of the Google's holiday logos. You're taken directly to the first result for your query instead of Google's results page. Google donates $1 to the charity of your choice. Google displays your fortune along with a cookie.

3. Is Google case sensitive, i.e., does Google return different results for Red Cross than for red cross? A. Yes, use capitalization to fine-tune your results. B. No, ignoring case distinctions increases the number of results Google finds. C. Yes, but Google ignores capitalized query terms, such as OR and AND, which are special operators. D. All of the above. 4. Does Google care if you misspell one or more of your query terms? A. Yes, Google will not find any results. B. No, there's a good chance that Google will recognize your spelling mistakes and suggest an alternative more common spelling. C. Yes, but you can run a spelling checker on your query before you submit it to Google. D. No, Google will figure out what you want even if you just enter the first letter of each query term. 5. What results does Google favor? A. B. C. D. Pages that have your search terms near each other. Pages that have the terms in the same order as in your query. Pages that match your search terms exactly. All of the above.

6. How can you use Google to find the meaning of a word? A. When you include "define," "what is," or "what are" in your query in front of a word, phrase, or acronym, Google displays one Glossary definition above your search results, e.g., define phishing. B. When your query includes the "define:" operator, Google displays all the definitions it finds on the web, e.g., define:deipnosophist. C. Search for the word and then click on the definition link in the statistics bar that appears below the Google search box and above your search results. D. All of the above. 7. How can you translate a word, sentence, webpage, or other material into another language? A. B. C. D. Ask a native speaker. Type in define, colon, whatever word you want defined, e.g., define: suchmaschine. Go to Google Language Tools and enter the text or webpage you want translated. A or C.

8. Does Google return only pages that match all your search terms? A. B. C. D. Pretty much, so select your search terms carefully. No, Google also includes pages with variations of your search terms. No, Google ignores some common words, such as "a," "the," and "how." All of the above though they contradict each other.

9. What variants of your search terms does Google include in your results? A. B. C. D. Google searches for your query words as well as each of their synonyms. None. Google only returns pages that match your search terms exactly. Google searches for your search terms as well as misspellings of each term. Google uses a technique called stemming to search on the stem or root of a word that can have multiple endings.

10. Google limits query to how many words? A. B. C. D. There is no limit. 65 (because the design engineer wanted to impress her colleagues) 32 (naturally because it's 2^5 or 2*2*2*2*2, an easy number for a computer to compute) 8 (who needs more than 8 search terms)

11. What's the quickest way to find driving directions using Google? A. Type the address in the Google search box, e.g., 1099 Lombard Street San Francisco CA, and then click on one of the map provider links. B. Type the address in the search box, e.g., 1 Broadway Ter, New York, NY, and Google will display a satellite view of the street. C. Use Froogle, Google's shopping tool, to buy a GPS system. Then install it in your car. D. Search Google Images for a map, e.g., 1900 Louis Road, Palo Alto, CA.

12. What's the fastest way to find someone's phone number? A. Visit 411.info, and search for a person by last name and city or zip code. B. Enter a person's name and a city, state, or zip code into Google's search box, e.g., Barack Obama Chicago IL. C. Pull out your local phone book and look up the person. D. Buy a CD-ROM phone database and look up phone numbers without being connected to the Internet.

13. What is the fastest way to find where a particular movie is playing at your local cinema? A. B. C. D. Look in the entertainment pages of your newspaper. Call 777-FILM if you are in the United States. Search Google for "movie" followed by your city or zip code, e.g., movie 10001. Search Google for "movie" followed by the name of the film you want to see, e.g., movie March of the Penguins.

14. How can you add a list of numbers, convert from miles to kilometers, or evaluate some other mathematical expression? A. Use your cell phone or PDA, if it has a built-in calculator. B. Use a calculator. C. Enter the expression you want evaluated in Google's search box and hit the ENTER or RETURN key. D. All of the above. 15. What's the fastest way to find the exchange rate between the US dollar and the Euro? A. B. C. D. Buy a newspaper and look in the financial section. Find a currency conversion site, such as XE.com and use their universal currency converter. Search Google for 1 Euro in USD. (USD for US Dollars) You can't find out because the rate is volatile.

16. How would you find a weather forecast for where you live? A. Search Google for weather and your city or zip code, e.g., weather 94010. B. Read the weather report in your local newspaper, listen to or watch the weather report on the radio or on TV. C. Personalize Google's homepage to include a weather forecast for where you live. D. Any of the above.

17. How can you read a page when the hosting website is down? A. You can't find a page if the hosting website is down. B. In Google's search results, click on the title of a webpage, and Google will provide the page even when the hosting website is down. C. In Google's search results, click on the cached link. D. Visit the Wayback Machine, a.k.a., Internet Archive, and search for several snapshots of the webpage. 18. What is the fastest way to find flights between San Jose and Boston? A. B. C. D. Call your favorite travel agent before he loses his job. Go to Expedia.com or CheapTickets and specify the dates you want to fly. Search Google for sjc bos or San Jose Boston. Call United or Delta; they both need your business.

19. Before going to the airport, what's a quick way to find out when your friend's flight will arrive? A. Search Google for your friend's flight to find out when it will arrive and at which gate, e.g. United 42. B. Call a taxi to pick up your friend at the airport and relax. C. Check the travel conditions at the airport by searching google for the 3-letter airport code followed by the word "airport," e.g., sfo airport. D. Call the airlines to find out about when the flight will arrive and where. 20. In addition to the Web, what other things can you search using Google? A. Images, news, stores, dictionaries, books, parking spaces B. Images, news, products, books, recipes C. Images, news, products, Usenet (online discussions), Blogs (online journals), local businesses, books, movies D. Images, news, products, books, Blogs (online journals), genealogy charts 21. How can you check gas prices in your area? A. Search for "gas" followed by your zip code in Yahoo's search box, e.g., gas 94010, and click on the Gas Buddy link. B. Although Google can handle volatile commodities, such as stocks and currency, Google doesn't currently provide a shortcut to gas prices. Given the rate at which Google is adding features, I expect Google will soon include capabilities for checking gas prices. C. Search for "gas" followed by your zip code in Google's search box, e.g., gas 94010, to find your local gas stations and then drive by them and see the prices they posted. D. All of the above.

22. How does Google decide how to rank ads on a page? A. The advertiser that pays the most per click through gets the top spot. B. The ad that gets the most click throughs gets the top spot. C. The ad that generates the most revenue to Google gets the top spot, taking into consideration rate of click throughs and cost per click. D. The exact formula is proprietary information that Google doesn't divulge E. Google doesn't show ads on its website.

23. What ads does Google display next to your search results? A. B. C. D. Ads from advertisers who pay the most for a given search term. Ads with the highest click-rate. Ads that are related to your present search terms. Ads that are related to your previous search terms.

24. How can you improve the ranking of your website on Google? A. Place lots of ads on Google. B. Include useful high-quality information on your site and then publicize and get links to your website. C. Buy lots of Google stock and schmooze with Larry and Sergey at the shareholder's meeting. D. Don't worry about Google. Instead try to get your site included on Yahoo. 25. How can you find the current price of Google shares? A. B. C. D. Search for goo on Google. Search for goog on Google. Search for google on Google. Don't bother looking it up. It will only make you sad that you didn't buy it at the IPO.

Answers: 1-D, 2-B, 3-B, 4-B, 5-D, 6-D, 7-D, 8-D, 9-D, 10-C, 11- A, 12-B, 13-D, 14-D, 15-C, 16-D, 17-C and D both, 18-C, 19-A, 20-C, 21-D, 22- D, 23-C, 24-B, 25-B and D.

Google Diddling Sample

Set 2
1. Google Inc. was founded in ... a) 1996 b) 1998 c) 2000 2. Google Inc. was founded by ... a) Sergey Page and Larry Brin b) Eric Schmidt and Larry Page c) Larry Page and Sergey Brin 3. Which search operator does Google enable by default? a) The AND operator b) The OR operator c) The NOT operator 4. Google once used Yahoo's search result to feed its engine. True? a) Yes, from 1998-2000. b) No, it was the other way round Yahoo used Google once. c) No, Google and Yahoo never had any search relationship. 5. Google Analytics is a service to ... a) Check if your web pages validate b) Check how many people visit your web pages c) Check your Google PageRank 6. In 2006, Eric Schmidt is Google's ... a) Vice President Engineering b) Eric left the company in 2004 to pursue his hobbies c) Chief Executive Officer 7. What was the name of the search engine the Google founders developed before Google? a) PageRanker b) BackRub c) Gogol

8. What is the algorithm behind Google's PageRank? a) The more pages link to you (and the higher their PageRank), the higher your page's PageRank b) You get 1 PageRank point for every web page you own c) The algorithm behind PageRank is kept secret, similar to the Coca-Cola formula 9. Why do some sites get "banned" from the Google index? a) They tried methods to get their pages ranked better which Google considers spam b) They have content which is illegal in this state/ country c) Both a) and b) are true. 10. At which university did the Google founders meet? a) Oxford University b) MIT c) Stanford University 11. What is the "Googleplex"? a) It's where Google employees work b) It's a solar system which shares only the name with Google.com c) It's the server farm Google built up to deliver search results to you 12. Which words are printed on the Froogle homepage? a) Search for any product you want (or discover new ones). b) froogle (fru'gal) n. Smart shopping through Google. c) Froogle. Just shopping. 13. Around how many hits do you get for the word "Hello" (in 2006)? a) 420,000 pages b) 420,000,000 pages c) 42,000,000,000 pages 14. If you want to find a place to grab a pizza, you go to ... a) Google Food b) Google Places c) Google Local 15. At the Association of National Advertisers annual conference in October 2005, who said Google will take 300 years to fulfill its mission to index the world's data? a) Eric Schmidt b) Larry Page c) Marissa Mayer 16. What colors do the letters of the Google logo have, from left to right?

a) Red Blue Green Yellow Green b) Blue Red Yellow Blue Green Red c) Blue Yellow Purple Yellow Red Blue

Answers 1 - b, 2 - c, 3 - a, 4 - b, 5 - b, 6 - c, 7 - b, 8 - a, 9 - c, 10 - c, 11 - a, 12 - a, 13 - b, 14 - c, 15 - a, 16 b.

Google Diddling Samples

Set 3
1. Which of the following will produce the best results? a. new york city b. New York city c. New York City d. NEW YORK CITY e. It doesn't matter, only special query keywords are case sensitive.

2. Which of the following is the correct way to search for an exact phrase? a. +new york city b. "new york city" c. (new york city) d. exact:(new york city) e, +new +york +city

3. What is the best way to ensure that pages containing a particular word are excluded from the results? For example, to exclude sites that contain the word Atkins when searching for information on dieting? a. diet NOT atkins b. diet NO atkins c. diet -atkins d. diet exclude:atkins e. diet ignore:atkins

4. What is the best way to search for a word and to include pages containing words with similar meanings? a. hiking AND similar b. like:hiking c. hiking+ d. ~hiking e. synonyms:hiking

5. What is the best way to search for pages containing one of two words? For instance, pages containing the word restaurant and either Indian or Thai? a. restaurant indian OR thai b. restaurant (indian thai) c. restaurant "indian thai" d. restaurant +indian +thai e. restaurant OR:indian thai

6. What is the best way to search for a term within one particular website. For instance to search for the word blackjack on plentysmart.com? a. register IN www.thecynet.com b. register site:www.thecynet.com c. www.thecynet.com register d. register ON www.thecynet.com e. register ON site:www.thecynet.com

7. How do you include a range of numbers in your search, for example to search for the word olympics, and including pages that have a number between 1980 and 2000 in them? (Works with any numbers, not just dates. a. olympics date:1980 2000 b. olympics 1980..2000 c. 1980:2000 olympics d. olympics "1980 2000" e. olympics 1980 TO 2000

8. How do you search for all pages that have a link to a particular site, for example all sites that have a link to whitehouse.gov? a. show links"www.whitehouse.gov" b. find links:www.whitehouse.gov c. references:www.whitehouse.gov d. link"www.whitehouse.gov" e. link:www.whitehouse.gov

9. How do you show how recent Google's information on a particular site such as plentysmart.com is? a. cache:www.thecynet.com b. recent:www.thecynet.com c. showdate:www.thecynet.com d. crawlinfo:www.thecynet.com e. check:www.thecynet.com

10. How do you search for sites related to a particular site, for instance to Yale's home page? a. like:www.thecynet.com b. showlike:www.thecynet.com c. related:www.thecynet.com d. link:www.thecynet.com

e. references:www.thecynet.com

11. Lets say you need to know what 2 times 6, divided by 3, squared, is. Which of the following queries would you use? (the answer is 16) a. calculate:((2*6) /3)^2 b. ((2*6) /3)^2 c. show results:((2*6) /3)^2 d. calc:((2*6) /3)^2 e. You can't do math in Google.

12. Let's say you need to know how many meters one foot is equal to. Which of the following queries would you use? a. feet to meters b. how many meters in a foot c. one foot in meters d. 1 foot in meters e. Any of the above.

13. Let's say you need to know how many dollars are in a British pound. Which of the following queries would you use? a. how many dollars in a pound b. 1 pound in dollars c. 1 gbp in usd d. pounds to dollars e. Any of the above.

14. How can you quickly find the current price of Google's stock (symbol GOOG) or any other listed stock? a. ticker:goog b. show:goog c. price:goog d. stocks:goog e. You can't do stock quotes in Google.

15. What is the easiest way to get a list of definitions for a word, such as the word quiz? a. quiz b. define:quiz c. definition:quiz d. what is quiz e. ?quiz

Answers.. 1-c,2-c,3-c,4-b,5-c,6-a,7-b,8-d,9-a,10-a,11-b,12-d,13-a,14-c,15-a

Google Diddling Sample Round 2-3

Some Screenshot Given In this round and u have to give the appropriate url of that screen shot.. Q.1)Which Query is done to get this page..

Ans. A. B. C. D. Inurl:login.asp * Intitle:login.asp allinurl:login.asp intitle:login inurl:login.asp

Q.2) Which query Is used To Get the List of active Webcams on the google..?

Ans. A. B. C. D.

inurl view index.shtml inurl:view/index.shtml * inurl view/index.shtml inurl:index.shtml

Q.3) Which Query Is used To Get the above result to hack Admin login panel of the Website..

Ans. A. B. C. D.

inurl adminlogin.asp inurl:admin/login.asp * inurl admin/login.asp inurl:adminlogin.asp

Note.. These are only the ExamplesOnly for Demo Purpose In the Level 3 some screen shots are given to the students and providing internet facility to search the query by which we get the same screen shot. For More Tricks and Help Click on This Or Click on this Thanks Cynet Team