Funny ways to search Google

Here are some searching you might find give you interesting results on Google (use exact phrases):

“answer to life, the universe and everything” (normal search)

“xx-klingon” (use I’m feeling lucky)

“xx-hacker” (use I’m feeling lucky)

AdSense made me rich!

0.10$! First click for me! Impressive!

Gmail rocks

I was looking for a pop3 webmail client and it turns out gmail has support for downloading pop3 mail! Very nice feature!

Slow Google Analytics

I’ve found out Google Analytics makes websites slow when using Firefox with the NoScript addon. Apparently the “allow domain” get’s a bit confused since the analytics script use more than the first domain to run the scripts.

More detail and a suggested temporary solution can be found in my main Internet blog:

http://www.fireflake.com/tech/2008/07/18/slow-loading-with-google-analytics/

Hope it helps if you’re having problems with it. Unfortunately if you are experiencing it on a site you’re visiting there is nothing you can do about it. I’ve found the easiest work around is to hit “stop” and then “go” to the page again. The scripts doesnt seem to lock the second time the page is loaded.

Google calender account

I just helped my wife get a Google calender account linked to my own… all of a sudden all my weekends are fully booked.

Google AdSense

I’ve used Google AdSense for several days now and I’m still not a millionare.

Google Site

Google have tons of tools available for use and I’ve been impressed with many of them (AdSense, Gmail, Analytics etc) but today I tried Google Site and I was very dissapointed.

I created this site in a matter of minutes:
http://sites.google.com/site/fireflake/Home

The problem? Well there where not many designs to choose from.. or rather the designs where only variations on color and never layout. The general layout looked more like that of an application and not of a site.

There are some nice features for people who want to create a site but know nothing of HTML or FTP, however these features can be found from many other free sites (like wordpress.com for example) .

I hope they add some nice, non-technical layouts and this tool could become usefull. Other things like support for META-tags would also be welcome.

Google codesearch!

A search engine interface for programmers! Use regular expressions to search in open source code on the Internet! If you have a command you are unsure of just search and see how others have used it!

http://www.google.com/codesearch