What is Digg?26 Comments
- cattar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26Digg for providing the information in a straightforward manner without being full of ads.
- billisdog, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13God knows I'm a goggle veteran. I've been there, with the straps, the eye covers. They do nothing!
- NinjaBoy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I want some google goggles!
- vocaro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@cattar
Thank the poster for that, not the site. He simply linked to the printer-friendly version of the article. The "real" version has plenty of ads:
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=675528&rl=1 - Blisshead, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I did not know a few of those, good stuff. Digg for providing the proper syntax instead of just saying that it's possible.
- ECSnorway, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Google, should I invade Greece?
-Xerxes - isthisnametaken, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5The phonebook doesn't seem to work too well. I have had my number for almost two years and it still lists someone else as the owner. Might not be Google's fault, but it's not working as advertised.
- tHePeOPle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm a beer goggle veteran.
- TWillz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The package tracking feature is pretty cool, and I didn't know about it. I track a lot of packages each day so that's gonna save me some time.
- Phegan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3If you get an email confirmation for a package with the tracking number in it sent to gmail, it will come up with a link in your email for it, over to the right side...very handy.
- psykr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Here's some more (in game form):
http://gwigle.varten.net/ - top5design, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Mine showed up and it's a cell phone.
- changyang1230, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Google as a calculator: Combined with the Firefox 2.0's search box suggestion function, you can have a calculator right away in your browser.
- woogley, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2it's cool that google knows units of measure, including "the answer to life, the universe, and everything" .. you can even use that phrase inside a mathematical formula.. like: "square root(the answer to life, the universe, and everything)"
- HonoredMule, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I used the Google calculator frequently this term in Mechanics for unit conversions and constants, as it tended to be more robust than my own calculator (and also less easily misplaced).
- Grimdotdotdot, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Only if you hit "I'm feeling lucky" - it wasn't a proper Google page, just the first site the results brought back made up to *look* like a Google page.
- JackassMcGee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It can also tell time - if you don't know what timezone, say, Istanbul is in, type time istanbul and it'll return the current local time there.
- thatrez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0hey, this article left out finding credit card numbers, socials, and all those other things that I read you could get from google on digg articles in the last month.
- NinjaBoy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Does anyone else remember when you could type in "French victories" and it would reply "Did you mean French defeats?"
- xamox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1yawn.
- berfmurret, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I LIKE!
i have run into some of these accidently at some point or another. its nice to have a compiled list though! - noisician, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1ha! actually it still works. just tried it.
- DarkCheerio, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0I couldn't get it to come up with any numbers at all :(
- cryptoknight, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Most of the items listed are not actual google "features" but more of search terms for example the population one is nothing more than a regular search with a weight on encyclopedia results so they show up at the top.
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