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How to Use Google to Find the Beijing 2008 Olympics Medal Count
If you like to keep up on the medal count during the olympics, chances are that you end up going to some sports-related website and sifting through their links to find out who’s in the lead. I usually end up getting distracted for a few minutes by the other articles. However, I just discovered a much easier way to find out the medal count using Google!
How to Find the Olympic Medal Count Using Google
All you have to do is type in the words olympic medal count into any Google search box. You’ll end up with the following:
As of today, the Chinese have the most Gold medals. You may notice that the first link that shows up is from Wikipedia, which shows the all-time Olympic Games medal count. It’s interesting to note that of the grand total of 12,793 medals awarded, the United States has earned 2,188 - About 17% of all Olympic medals!
Have you found any other interesting olympic-related Google features? Let everyone know below!
How to Use Google to Find the Cheapest Gas Prices in Your Area
To find cheap gas using Google, we will use a feature called subscribed links. You can access Google Subscribed Links by clicking on Preferences on the main Google Homepage, outlined in pink below:
Once you arrive at the preferences page, you need to scroll down to the section entitled Subscribed Links. You will then need to click on the link to the Subscribed Links Directory, as shown outlined in pink below.
If you are unable to see the Subscribed Links section, then you need to sign into your Google Account, and return to the preferences page.
You can either scroll down until you find the GasBuddy subscribed link, or you can simply perform a search at the top of the page for GasBuddy.
If you scroll down (which is the route I took), you will see the following:
You need to click on the Subscribe button, that I have circled in pink. Once it is activated, you should see the Subscribe button turn into an Unsubscribe button as shown below.
You’re all set! Now you can perform Google searches and Gas Prices will show up in the 4th search result. Google makes all subscribed links show up in that position, I’m not quite sure as to the reasoning behind this however.
If you type in gas chicago, you will get these results:
You can also search by area code, here’s what you get when typing in gas prices 15216:
Lastly, the city, state method works very well also:
If you have any questions about the GasBuddy subscribed link, just let me know in the comments section below.
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