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Look Ups
Searches wikipedia and also smaller independant online encyclopedias at once. The biggest online encyclopedia regarding anything,-one,-place.
Made for kids to be easy and safe to research, to search by photos or words. The kid-safe version of wiki.com, safe to set as the homepage for your kids' system (or else use yahooligans.com)
To search within any type of media over the past century that's in open domain. or just wander through all their videos and sounds and texts.
This one website lets you choose from multiple other sites which do translation, including versions that can guess the language if you don't know, and it also will translate webpages as well. good to find different translations of a single phrase since it can vary widely.
Did someone call and you don't know who it is? good place to see who or where it came from.
I dont use this service, there's so many 'look up someone' websites that promise to hand out info on someone for some cash, but one never knows who has the most correct info on a person, so i just list one site here which at least tells you who else lives in the house and their age.
Craigslist only lets you search in one area in the US, but these two sites let you search all US cities at once, handy if what you're looking for could be anywhere in the country.
You show them a photo of yours, and they then search the internet for photos which looks the closest to your photo. Good to see if anyone if copying or using a photo of yours, or to find sites which have photos alot like yours. An original concept, still in testing, to search for online photos, not based on text, but based on photo-matching.
This is a genealogy site, but this page lets you upload a photo of someones face, like yours or a friends, and then it will scan 1000s of famous peoples faces and show you who your photo most looks like, it can be funny to try once and you can save/email the results to others.
I use this site as my online tv guide, allthough theres very little i watch it's hard to find anything, so with my account setup here I just scroll thru and, with a hdtv card, just click on any show to tune in to it.
Get too much information about anyones birth day.
More entertaining than informative, it's to search for meanings of slangs and phrases, but since anyone can submit meanings it has no practical value. Just makes one wonder who came up with these meanings, and how they came up with them. Places
Both googles and microsofts online interactive mapping and directions, featuring satellite view and lots of 'show me' options, certainly you already know how to use this handy feature online.
A decent real estate search site to check an address info and value.
Enter in a starting and ending address, hit START, and watch a virtual car drive the actual route in 3d using googles virtual earth and maps. Useful to visualize a drive before you take it, or just neat to try once.
See the actual layout of the night sky at an exact place and time, good for when there's some space event is happening and you need to know where to look.
In nasa tracker, enter your ZIP, then choose 'next sightning' and 'skytrack' to see when you can actually see the space station or the shuttle with your naked eye fly above you, usually they're visible as the sun is setting (thus reflecting and making them easy to see).
They offer factbooks/maps on countries and world leaders, and their section 'freedom of info reading room' offers searches on all declassified documents and a 'foia request' so that you can officially check on your own records. supposedly.
Search for any health-hazard events, places, accidents within any city (just type in a city name and a state to keep it simple, dont get too detailed at first).
See daily gas prices using an interactive google map, and how counties/states differ. or just use it to find the cheapest gas station near you on their main website.
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Locals
Search by place or person and get detailed information on the history/finances/owners/layout of a property.
Good index of legal laws, searches, and forms if you need them from Florida.
Search by name or company and view actual documents going back decades.
Uses google maps to easily find and see where all florida predators are near your own address. According to the news as of writing this, florida just reached the one millionth notice in one year.
Check if someones ever been arrested in the county.
View live I95 cameras and see road conditions in this interactive google map.
The general search for people or business records, a good place to start looking up someone.
Handy interactive google maps to plan your wandering through New York from point A to B.
Translate from one language to another, or translate entire websites into another language.
Google is constantly scanning all known books and magazines in existence, so you can search for any texts ever written in books/maagzines as they add them, and with over a billion books in existence they're keeping busy every day.
This uses google earth and google maps to track your friends and family in realtime with their gps phone or laptop, so that you can see where everyone you know. Relatively new but certainly to grow over the next year. I just add the gadget to my 'igoogle' page to i can use it on the website since I own no cellphone and have no plans to.
Search through millions of news articles going back over a century.
See what people are typing into google, mategorized by country, or timespan, or 'type' of searches. Sometimes its interesting to see what the world, or part thereof, is wanting to know more about.
Like google trends above, but even more ways to see what people are searching for.
A section of google where people, well, anyone thinks they are 'masters' of some type fo knowledge, can create a knowledge-base of their know-how, so that others can refer to this lookup in order to gain further insight into some subject of the world.
This searches all the personal blogs online (remember google 'regular' search does not search everything, only a subset of the internet) so you might find something posted on someones online diary that doesn't show in other google searches.
This is actually a phone number to call whereever you are to get help with looking for somewhere near you, this webpage just shows a brief video on it, but its a handy phone number for a cellphone.
Search or wander through the millions of US patents on inventions both logical and crazy.
Search through googles video collections as well as youtubes.
Even more types of google searches, but they are all early experimental versions that arent complete yet, but still interesting to see what googles working on. |