Google Survival Kit

Following my Firefox tip, here is another one that can save your life if your are a clueless European in the US - works the other way around too.

Google has a nice calculator feature which knows (oohooh magic!) how to convert most currencies and more importantly measure units. That really covers the essentials:

What is "20 miles" in kilometers?
Is 75F cold? (for a beer or for a bath...)
Are 5 gallons that much?
Is that girl on mySpace really that sexy? (I know, that's bad...)
How expensive is that super-super-size-me value meal?

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Patxi said…
Hi!

Here is a Firefox-Google tip I use and abuse: Go to the address bar and type a combination of words. Example: "wikipedia london business school"

Hit Enter.

You will be redirected to the "I'm feeling lucky" result for the search, the 1st result that will appear in Google. *Extremely* useful. "Wikipedia anything" tends to work flawlessly in general.

One thing only, there should be more than one word.

I hope you find it useful.

Best,

Patxi

Patxi (not yet) at London Business School
1/6/06 20:47
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