Googling T

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 any stock symbol in Google and get a quick chart and set of statistics.

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.

I often use Google to do math and conversions. For example "cups in a gallon" or "feet in 5 miles" or "195435 kilobytes in megabytes" 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" just to find out how much Kelly has grown...

Find out about Google's other special features under Google help: www.google.com/features.