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How to Use Google Earth to Track Santa Claus
He sees you when you’re sleeping. He knows when you’re awake. He knows if you’ve been bad or good. If “He” knows all of that, you should at least be entitled to know his whereabouts. Now, using the technology of two groups you can!
There seems to be lots of ways to track Santa Claus nowadays, but nobody does it better than the North American Aerospace Defense Command! Fortunately for us, NORAD has combined their Santa tracking power with the versatility of Google Maps. It’s a winning combination, as you can see below:
So, how can you use Google Maps to track Santa Claus? It’s easy — just go to Google’s Official NORAD Santa Tracker. Don’t make it too obvious though, you never know when you’re being watched. After all, He sees you when you’re sleeping, and knows when you’re awake!
Merry Christmas from Easy Googler!
How to Use Google to Find the Worst Band In the World
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
Google CADIE April Fools Joke 2009
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:
And here’s the Gmail homepage giving a quick overview of CADIE:
How to Use Yahoo to Find Local Gas Prices
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:
How to Use Google Stock Screener to Pick the Perfect Stocks for your Portfolio
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.