Hey, I just found a new feature in Google that I hadn't noticed before. Googling <game name> release date, comes up with the actual release date in the results:



That's a pretty neat feature.





(Personally not interested in, but just testing things)



(Works with movies too)


Unfortunately it's not always accurate:

(BlackMesa is still not released... )

It seems to only work with games and movies so far... "Windows 8 release date" doesn't come up with anything.

+1

Strange. This sounds cool, but I'm not seeing it - I only get regular search results (eg wiki on top).

I've been finding more and more google search results that answer directly without returning a link.

One last night that rocked my world, it was something like the maximum number of primary partitions for MBR and it just popped up a table. They took a cue from wolfram Alpha I guess.

Try "2012 Republican Primary" too, that one impressed me when I was looking at it.

Strange. This sounds cool, but I'm not seeing it - I only get regular search results (eg wiki on top).

Apparently they added the feature two weeks ago, at least for some users - but I only got in sometime in the past few days. I bet they roll out new features slowly with groups of users (segments of ip address maybe?) at a time, to help root out bugs. I don't use Facebook, but I hear they do the same thing.

Try "2012 Republican Primary" too, that one impressed me when I was looking at it.

Nice! I was half expecting something like the old 'French Military Victories' google bomb (broken since Google removed the "I'm feeling lucky" button).

Google has been converting currencies, weights, and measurements for several years, and I frequently find it easier/quicker to use google when I need to know the conversions.

They do stock as well - probably been at least a year for that one. If they did intelligent time zone conversion, that'd be great. "5pm GMT-7 to local" should show the time of 5pm GMT-7 in my local time zone.

It's not like they don't know my location anyway, despite me repeatedly telling them in Google and Chrome settings not to record it.

It seems to only work with games and movies so far... "Windows 8 release date" doesn't come up with anything.

Probably intentionally blocked from being helpful in that situation ;)

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Strange. This sounds cool, but I'm not seeing it - I only get regular search results (eg wiki on top).

Apparently they added the feature two weeks ago, at least for some users - but I only got in sometime in the past few days. I bet they roll out new features slowly with groups of users (segments of ip address maybe?) at a time, to help root out bugs. I don't use Facebook, but I hear they do the same thing.

Try "2012 Republican Primary" too, that one impressed me when I was looking at it.

Nice! I was half expecting something like the old 'French Military Victories' google bomb (broken since Google removed the "I'm feeling lucky" button).

Google has been converting currencies, weights, and measurements for several years, and I frequently find it easier/quicker to use google when I need to know the conversions.

They do stock as well - probably been at least a year for that one. If they did intelligent time zone conversion, that'd be great. "5pm GMT-7 to local" should show the time of 5pm GMT-7 in my local time zone.

It's not like they don't know my location anyway, despite me repeatedly telling them in Google and Chrome settings not to record it.
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Yeah the calculate thing pwns hardcore. The other day I mesmerized some older people at work when they needed to know some really insane bullcrap calculation. I just typed, "Convert 3.20 dollars per square foot to euros per square meter" and it popped up the answer. They just sat there gaping.

Oh flight status is another one! Best from my android phone, just hit the voice search button, "Flight status las vegas to new york" or "flight status us airways 1953" and out pops the info.

We live in an interesting world...

Wow, that conversion is pretty impressive - I've only done 1 to 1 conversion.

Wow, that conversion is pretty impressive - I've only done 1 to 1 conversion.

It seems to be "uncapped" and recursive, which means that as long as you convert an overall unit type to a matching unit type (eg ounces/(lightyear * square fathom) to kg/(picometer*acre)), it'll give you the answer. Fundamentally it's actually really simple. It's still badass, though.


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