Google Look-Ups
By leelefever on January 18, 2004 - 11:43am
As you may know, the Google search box can take you directly to some resources, based on the words you use to search. These are called look-ups. A couple of basics:
- define: (insert word) will take you to a page of definitions
- link: (insert domain) will list all the pages linking to that site
- Entering an address (street and city) will provide Yahoo!/Mapquest Maps at the top of the page.
Aaron Swartz recently posted a list of new look-ups. These are pretty handy, in my opinion...
Google has added more search by number features:
- Area Codes, e.g. 650, bring up maps.
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What is your Google Number?
By leelefever on December 11, 2003 - 10:31am
While I'm on this Google stuff, I wanted to post this article by Valdis Krebs. Valdis created InFlow, which is a social network analysis tool.
Basically, go to Google and search for your name in double quotation marks. In the blue bar, you'll see a number that represents the results that include your name.
Of course, there are false positives and people with popular names have issues, but it's fun to do. Valdis even provides this scale for understanding your number:
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