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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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55 Ways to Have Fun With Google A cabinet of search engine curiosities, riddles, games, and a little bit of usefulness You can order the book at www.55fun.com Philipp Lenssen 1 55 Ways to Have Fun With Google 55 Ways to Have fun With Google by Philipp Lenssen. First edition 2006. ISBN-10: 1411693418 ISBN-13: 978-1411693418 Publisher: Lulu.com (May 8, 2006) 2 On a spring day you can find your way to a little flower garden where the Googleheads play You know they’re there by the clothes they wear And their Googlehead faces and their Googlehead hair. ‘Cause they’re the Googleheads They shake their doodleheads They’re the goo-ga-goo-ga-goo-gah Googleheads. – Laurie Berkner 3 55 Ways to Have Fun With Google Contents Introduction .....................................................................................8 1. Egogoogling: Susan Is…..............................................................9 2. The Google Snake Game............................................................ 15 3. Memecodes: 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 Gorman’s Googlewhack .................................................. 51 16. Google Q&A .............................................................................54 17. Celebrate Google Non-Weddings, and More ...........................56 18. Design Your SketchUp Dream House .....................................58 19. Kevin Bacon and the Google Network .....................................59 20. The Google Alphabet................................................................62 4 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 26. The Google Quiz: 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............