How to Use Google to Find the Worst Band In the World

Written by: Tom on April 6, 2009 at 9:00 am
Category: Fun With Google, Search Tips · Comment on this Article 

Last July, we wrote about how Google knows the answer to life, the universe, and everything.

Since Google knows everything, it’s only natural that our friendliest search engine would know who the worst band in the world is.

How to Use Google to Find Out Who Is the Worst Band in the World

All you have to do is type the following into any Google search box:

worst band in the world

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Google CADIE April Fools Joke 2009

Written by: Tom on April 1, 2009 at 6:38 am
Category: Search Tips · 1 Comment 

It seems like every year, Google has another April Fools joke up its sleeves!

Today, if you head over to the Google homepage, or go to Gmail, you will see a link for Google’s new CADIE system.  CADIE stands for Cognitive Auto-Heuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity.

Here’s a screen shot of the Google Homepage showing a link to CADIE:

Google Homepage Showing the Link to CADIE April Fools 2009 Joke

And here’s the Gmail homepage giving a quick overview of CADIE:

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How to Use Yahoo to Find Local Gas Prices

Written by: Tom on March 31, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Category: Fun With Google, Search Tips · 2 Comments 

Last summer,we featured an article detailing how to use Google to find gas prices.  If you read that article, you will notice that it is kind of a pain in the neck to view gas prices in Google.  In the past year, Yahoo! has been busy rebuilding is brand.  Yahoo has incorporated many new features into its search engine, some may have been even better-implemented than Google’s features.

For example, it is much easier to find gas prices using Yahoo.  First of all, you don’t need to navigate into your preferences, it’s on by default.  Also, the gas prices show up right on top of the search results, rather than buried in the middle of the page like Google’s gas prices.

How to Find Local Gas Prices

All you have to do is go to the Yahoo Homepage and type in gas [your location here].  You can type in the city, city, state, or ZIP code.  Here’s an example:

Using Yahoo to Find Gas Prices

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How to Use Google Stock Screener to Pick the Perfect Stocks for your Portfolio

Written by: Tom on March 23, 2009 at 8:30 am
Category: Search Tips · 2 Comments 

As we showed you last Wednesday, Google Finance is filled with amazing features, such as the ability to view charts of the major stock indices’ performance over a period of decades.  That article drew a pessimistic comment from one of our readers stating that we were just demonstrating another way to get depressed about the current economy.

However, with Google’s Stock Screener, you can easily choose stocks that are high performers, even in this current economic downturn.  It’s easy!  To use the Stock Screener, all you have to do is head on over to Google Finance at www.google.com/finance.

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View an Interactive Graph of the Dow Jones Industrial Average Using Google

Written by: Tom on March 18, 2009 at 9:04 am
Category: Search Tips · 1 Comment 

With all of the publicity the stock market has received in the last six months, I really wanted to see how far the Dow Jones Industrial Average has fallen in the past six months.  As you will find out below, the Dow Jones recently hit a 12 year low in the past week.

Fortunately, Google makes it easy to view a graph of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, as well as other stock indices.  You can also view graphs for individual stocks.

How to Use Google to Find a Graph of the Dow Jones Industrial Average

To view a graph of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, all you have to do is type dji into Google.  Google brings up a page of results showing you the current stock price and a graph of today’s activity, as shown below:

The Dow Jones Industrial Average Results from a Google Search

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