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Haochi reports that he recently encountred, Google search result experiments of displaying optimized information about forum threads i.e. below the title, there’s a new line with the following format:

I did a google search on organ donations in the Philippines and found out that kidney donations fall under the Philippine Organ Donation Program, a unit under the Department of Health. This program produced a manual of procedures to prevent strangers from walking into a hospital to sell their kidneys.

Deep within the Google search engine, not commonly used by the average searcher, there is tool that has taken the internet domain/click-farmers to orgasmic heights of revelry. What is this fantabulous tool of the googlified (can I copyright that term?) generation? It is, of course, the Google Trend Analysis.

Finally, if you are going to commit murder, perhaps best to make sure you don’t leave a Google trail:Cop: Wife googled ‘How to commit murder’ - New Jersey Daily Record, via Slashdot (13 & 15 March):

The following lines result if you try a google search on Quadrant at the moment:

Not surprisingly, charging that X doesn’t get it is very popular. I did a Google search on the phrase “doesn’t get it” and turned up 1.2 million instances. Among those so accused in the first few pages of results are various companies, several businessmen, media personalities, “management” in general, pundits of various stripe, sundry politicians, a publisher, writers, a major league baseball manager, America, Washington, plus some individuals whose names I didn’t immediately recognize.

A quick Google search took me back to “those dark-age years”. Yuck!

One of the best sites to use to find out your keyword’s competition is Google. If you type your keyword phrase ‘corporate gift ideas’ into Google search you will see there are 7,660,000 pages/listings returned. To get the number of pages that have your exact keyword phrase, you need to search your phrase within quotation marks “corporate gift ideas” and you will see it has around 275,000 pages featuring your keyword phrase.

The latest fad to hit my office is this online riddle game called P4X The Riddle. You're given a webpage and a picture, and they contain clues. The clues are used to to figure out how to get to the next webpage. Sounds easy, but it's not. The tools you'll need to get through this challenge is a decent graphics program like Adobe Photoshop or GIMP, a web browser, a text editor, and the Google search engine. Make sure you read the instructions first, it'll save you a lot of frustration.

However, recently I found out a backdoor method to peep into other people’s plugins of top ranking sites. Although, you can’t download their plugins directly, it gives clues to what plugins are driving their sites and the name of the plugins. Keying the names of these plugins into google search pages could easily bring you to the download page of the plugin.