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Author Topic: 55 Ways to Have Fun With Google - free ebook  (Read 6,441 times)

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55 Ways to Have Fun With Google - free ebook
« on: June 22, 2006, 09:29 PM »
free pdf (or buy it printed)

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You probably use Google everyday, but do you know... the Google Snake Game? Googledromes? Memecodes? Googlesport? The Google Calculator? Googlepark and Google Weddings? Google hacking, fighting and rhyming? In this book, you’ll find Google-related games, cartoons, oddities, tips, stories and everything else that’s fun. Reading it, you won’t be the same searcher as before! (From the author of Google Blogoscoped.)
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Re: 55 Ways to Have Fun With Google - free ebook
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2006, 03:27 AM »
Sounds pretty neat...but too big for me to download right now so I will have to try to get it later.

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Re: 55 Ways to Have Fun With Google - free ebook
« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2006, 07:57 AM »
That's got some good material!
I already had played some of the games mentioned (i mean, who never searched for his own game?), but i'd never thought of some of the ones mentioned there!
That ebook deomonstrates much imagination (or good collectiong powers :P ).

I specially love the snake game.
Quote from: http://www.55fun.com/
The goal is to create the longest phrase that Google can find by
alternately adding one word to the end of the other player’s search
phrase.

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