{"id":359,"date":"2005-11-19T10:51:35","date_gmt":"2005-11-19T10:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2005\/11\/googling_t\/"},"modified":"2005-11-19T10:51:35","modified_gmt":"2005-11-19T10:51:35","slug":"googling_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2005\/11\/googling_t\/","title":{"rendered":"Googling T"},"content":{"rendered":"

After reading Ted’s single letter posting<\/a>, I wondered what would happen if I Googled the letter “t”. While Ted’s blog posting did not appear (yet) a little chart and stock quote for AT&T did. It turns out you can type any stock symbol in Google and get a quick chart and set of statistics.<\/p>\n

\"Google-T-1\"<\/p>\n

Google has a number of special searches like this. If you google my phone number it will show my name, address, and a map to my house! Scary.<\/p>\n

I often use Google to do math and conversions. For example “cups in a gallon<\/a>” or “feet in 5 miles<\/a>” or “195435 kilobytes in megabytes<\/a>” will automatically go to the Google calculator. Kelly reported last night that she has grown three centimeters since her birthday. Kathy and I both responded that we don’t talk metrics. I Googled “3 centimeters in inches<\/a>” just to find out how much Kelly has grown…<\/p>\n

\"Google-3Centimeters-1\"<\/p>\n

Find out about Google’s other special features under Google help: www.google.com\/features<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Now playing: Perpetual Change<\/strong> by Yes<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After reading Ted’s single letter posting, I wondered what would happen if I Googled the letter “t”. While Ted’s blog posting did not appear (yet) a little chart and stock quote for AT&T did. It turns out you can type … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}