1.TYPE THE UNDERLINE WORD ON YOUR GOOGLE SEARCH BOX AND HIT "I AM FILLING LUCKY" AND THEN SEE THE MAGIC.....ENJOY....
- Google Gravity — Google Search gets a lot harder when you add gravity to the webpage. Grab the fallen Google logo and mess around.
- Pig Latin Google and more — The Google homepage is offered in over 150 languages, including some peculiar ones like Pig Latin, Hacker, Elmer Fudd, Klingon, Pirate, and the Swedish Chef Muppet’s Bork bork bork.
- Google Sphere — Search options orbit the Google logo. Be careful not to have your mind blown.
- Where is Chuck Norris — You may be feeling lucky, but not lucky enough to locate Chuck Norris.
- Google Heart Page — Add a little more love to your search. For the page to work, your Java will have to be up-to-date.
- elgooG — If you spell Google backwards, you should know what to expect.
- Google Gothic — For those dark days.
- Epic Google — Search bigger with Epic Google.
- Weenie Google — Better search quick before Weenie Google disappears.
- Annoying Google — This page lives up to its name.
- Google l33t — Experts in leetspeak will love searching on Google l33t.
- Google Loco — Feeling a little wild? Get loco!
- Google Rainbow — Brighten up your search.
- Who’s the cutest? — Not a Google variation, but aren’t you curious what answer Google provides?
2. Great Google Doodles
Google often creates unique logo art, or Google Doodles, for their homepage to celebrate cultural events. We’ve seen some bad Google Doodles over the years, but several interactive Google Doodles have been so fun Google has kept them around.
- Pac-Man — In 2010, Google celebrated the 30th
anniversary of Pac-Man’s release with its own version of the arcade
classic in place of the Google logo on the homepage. The game lives on here.
- Charlie Chaplin’s Birthday — Google’s first live action video Doodle appeared on the homepage in 2011 to celebrate Charlie Chaplin’s 122nd birthday. It features the Google Doodle team in a silent film as a tribute to Chaplin, shot at the same location of several of Chaplin’s early films.
- John Lennon Doodle — Google couldn’t ignore what would have been the 70th birthday of John Lennon. A sweet animated video spells out Google while you hear the chorus of Lennon’s incredible song Imagine.
- Play the Guitar — To celebrate the birth of electric guitar inventor Les Paul, Google’s homepage featured a playable guitar.
- Logo Repelled by Cursor — When Google Instant launched in 2010, Google utilized html5 to create a bubble-filled logo that is repelled by your mouse. It’s pretty fun to play with the logo.
- Rube Goldberg Machine — A Rube Goldberg machine that sets off a fireworks display lived on the Google homepage in 2010 for the 4th of July (also Rube Goldberg’s birthday).
- Hertz Doodle — No one loved electromagnetic waves more than Heinrich Hertz.
- Martha Graham’s Choreography — Google combines many of the revolutionary choreographer’s signature moves to create this quick video Doodle.
- Valentine’s Day Video — Google gets cute and sweet with this Valentine’s Day video Doodle of a boy’s courting of a girl and her jump rope.
- Jules Verne Doodle — Jules Verne’s 183rd birthday saw Google’s 2011 interactive Doodle, allowing you to explore the deep sea like Verne’s classic 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
- Animal Locomotion Doodle — Google nods to Eadweard J. Muybridge and his pioneering work in cinematography and animal locomotion with this animated doodle.
- Earth Day Doodle — Forget animated logos. Google recorded the growing of a Google logo garden to celebrate Earth Day.
- MOOG
— In an attempt to top 2011′s playable guitar logo, Google honors
synthesizer pioneer Bob Moog by creating a working synthesizer. We’ll
add a link once we find the Doodle’s permanent home. Then you can use Moog Music’s guide to learn how to use the complicated and peculiar instrument.
- Drive-in Doodle — No one celebrates the 79th anniversary of the drive-in like Google. Check out this cool, short video.
- Mother’s Day Doodle — Google wishes a happy Mother’s Day with this adorable doodle.
- The Google Doodle Archives — Google Doodles from the last 14 years are catalogued for you to browse at your leisure.
3. Cool Google Search Tools
“They say we only use 10% of our brain, and I would wager we use even less of our Google.” –unknown scholar
Google has grown up quite a bit over the last two decades (the company is 98 in reverse dog years), and the maturity of their search engine has gone from an untrained puppy to that of a wise, old hound. Here are some cool tools Google Search offers.
- Calculator — Google is better at math than a lot of us. Enter in a math equation and Google will figure it out.
- Weather — To check the weather anywhere in the World, type “weather” followed by the place you want to check.
- Define Words — Save yourself a click or two and have Google define a word for you by typing “define: this word.”
- Stocks — Google will keep you up to date with the market. Just search a company’s ticker symbol for the latest numbers (ex: “TGT” for Target).
- World Time — If time zone deciphering eludes you, just type “time” and a city to get the local time.
- Airline Flight Schedule and Status — To see flight schedules to or from a particular location, type “flights to” or “flights from” a certain city (ex: flights from Austin to Seattle). Check a flight’s status by searching the airline and flight number (ex: Alaska Airlines 143).
- Track UPS, Fedex, or USPS Shipping — Search for your UPS, Fedex, or USPS tracking number and Google will let you know where your package is.
- Search by Phrase — Searching for words in quotes tells Google to only include webpages that use those words together in that order, as opposed to a normal search that looks for the chosen words anywhere on the page, not necessary as a phrase.
- Exclude a Term from the Results — Putting a – in front of any word in your search tells Google to exclude any results with that word, very useful when you’re searching for _____ and don’t want ____.
- Sports Scores — Typing a team’s name into the search box brings up scores for their most recent matches.
- Search Only One Site — Want to search a specific site for an article, but the site doesn’t have a good search function? Search that site’s pages with Google by specifying the website in your query (ex: site:mashable.com New iPad)
- Synonym Search — Place a tilde (~) in front of a word to search for its synonyms as well as the word itself (ex: Chicago ~restaurants).
- Fill in the Blank — Sometimes you don’t know exactly what you’re searching for, and need Google to fill in the blank. Insert a * in place of the word you want Google to figure out for you (ex: Thomas Edison invented the *).
- New Google Things to Do — Google knows that they’re all that and a bag of chips, so they continually update this list of unique ways to use Google tools.
