Google Secrets Many of us just use a search engine to look up a particular thing. We might be looking up something we want to buy because we want to find the cheapest price. On the other hand, we might be hungry for news about our favorite movie stars or singers, but some search engines offer a lot more and the leader in that field is, guess who? If you said Google, you would be correct. The Google search engine can do many different things. If you want to find out what is the top subject being searched for on Google there is a place in the search engine which allows you to access this data and gives you a graphic. I don’t think most of the people using Google for personal use might know this. If you type Google.com/trends you can access this data. It could be handy for reports and especially useful to those running a website. If you know the most popular subjects being searched for, you can tailor your site to those searches and get more viewers. A lot of people like nostalgia and if you would like to see Google’s very first search engine and try it out, just type this query into the current one, https://elgoog.im/google1998/ When I first started investigating Google search, it was before smart cell phones hit the market so all the experimenting by me with Google search was done on a computer. There are different symbols you can add to your search on Google. An asterisk * can be used as a placeholder for an unknown fact or word. If you surround your search with quotes “”, the search will look for the exact word or phrase. Use a hyphen – before a word or part of a search to exclude it from the search. If you are interested in getting current stock prices for a particular stock, enter its symbol into the Google search. Want to try it, here is the symbol for Apple, AAPL. You can ask Google search just about anything. One of the favorites seems to be define life. Google will steer you to a dictionary definition. I bet you thought it was going to be a trick answer. Would you like to see gravity in action? Type Google Gravity in the search engine and it will bring up Google Gravity – Mr.doob. Click on this link and you will learn what Google thinks gravity is. Be patient it takes about 5 seconds. The Google window can be tilted by entering https://elgoog.im/tilt/ into the search area. If you type Atari Breakout into the search area of Google it brings up pictures of an Atari Breakout game. Click on one of the pictures and the game will actually start. I leave it to you to find out how to play it. You will actually get 5 lives I have been told. There have been quite a few tricks hidden in the Google search, the group has gained the name Easter Eggs. The acquired this name because an Atari Manager liked hidden surprises and said they reminded him of searching for eggs on Easter morning. Google is just not sitting by without watching what you do with their search engine it is collecting data and you can see some of it by typing in to Google search My Activity. Most people will be shocked by what they find because they never realized Google was watching. The good new is you can turn this stuff off if you want. If you type My Account into the Google search engine and click on My Account you will find tons of info about yourself. Want to see something cool? Go to elgoog.im/terminal/. It will bring back memories of the days when we had to use those old slow phone modems. Try elgoog.im/underwater/. You can even ask for more fish. If you want to experiment type elgoog into the search area of the Google search engine. Then click on Google Mirror. By doing this you will find the easter eggs which were killed by Google but restored. One site claims to have the total easter egg list, I can not verify they are all there but I am going to give you the address so if you want to go there you can paste in into Google’s search engine. The address is See the written article to better understand the addresses given.
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