Unseen Pages of Google
Google has definitely created a niche for them. It is a rare incident that a web surfer has not heard about Google. This is the major search engine that has evolved out of a PHD project. Pages and products like Doodles, Google Blog, Google Store, Google Docs and Google Labs are well known to every body. But apart from these well known products and pages there are more in the massive repository of Google and some of them are known to a smaller community only. So here goes a list of pages of google which are there accessible to all but known to a few:
It seems that the logo was being used as Google logo when it was in beta phase. The current Google logo looks quite better than this.
It was the way of communicating with the users, now-a-days it has been incorporated into google groups. All the happenings and progress were being conveyed to users (members) through this news letter.
3. Testimonials
This is a way to submit your feedback abot google. In google’s word it is like this:
Tell your story in the box below and hit the submit button. Be sure to include details such as the terms you used to search if you think it would be helpful for others. And some information about yourself if you care to share. We’ll be posting some of these stories on the Google website, so look for your story in the near future.
4. Google Moms
A tribute to all mothers. A mothers’s day release from google.
5. Google Heart
Google expresses the valentine day wishes by releasing this to the whole online community of users. Another variant is here.
And what they say : At 6:51 a.m. on Tuesday, more than 6,200 queries for “cnn” were conducted on Google. Between 6:26 a.m. and 7:06 a.m., the number of searches for “cnn” averaged approximately 6,000 queries per minute.
7. Zeitgeist
It gives a statistical analysis of the search trend. On May 22 it has been replaced by HOT TRENDS which provides many additional functionality including viewing search trends of the past.
8. Google Service Tour
This is the best page I found. Have many google features explained. Read all the features and click on the links to have a indepth knowledge and exploit the full potential of google search.
9. Search Google to locate Microsoft, Linux or FreeBSD related pages. Now you must tell Google hates none.
10. Britney Spears or did I say Britany Spiers?
The spelling corerction system of google found the misspellings when people entered the search key word for Britney Spears.
11. Easter Egg
Taking the term “easter egg” literally (and perhaps to celebrate the Easter holiday), Google has an official Easter Eggs page.
12. Google Moon
On July 20, 2005, Google debuted a version of Google Maps that included a small segment of the surface of the moon. It is based entirely on NASA images and includes only a very limited region. Panning causes the map to tile. Zooming in too much shows a picture of Swiss cheese. The map also gives the locations of all moon landings. Google created the page on the 36th anniversary of the first human landing on the moon.
12. Ride Finder
Google launched an experimental Google Maps-based tool called Ride Finder, tapping into in-car GPS units for a selection of participating taxi and limousine services. The tool displays the current location of all supported vehicles of the participating services in major US cities, including Chicago and San Francisco on a Google Maps street map.
13. April Fool pages
In each April Fool’s day google announces some of the services which later turns out as an April Fool joke. These services are MentalPlex(2000), Pigeon Rank (2002), Lunar Job (2004), Google Gulp (2005), Google Romance (2006), Gmail paper and TiSP (2007).
14. Google language
Apart from many International flavor of Google like Hindi, Chinese, Japanese, German you can find Google Seach in Bork bork bork, Pig Latin, Hacker and Elmer Fudd.
If you have found any other less known pages fro Google, please let me know in the comment section.
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