{"id":405,"date":"2003-09-10T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-10T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/the_web\/blog_google_calculator.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T05:00:00","slug":"blog_google_calculator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2003\/09\/10\/blog_google_calculator","title":{"rendered":"Google Calculator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- keywords:The Web --> <\/p>\n<p> New cool feature: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/help\/features.html#calculator\">the google calculator<\/a>. Type all sorts of mathematical expressions in as your google search, and you get the result as your answer! It must all be part of google&#8217;s scheme to replace the URL with the google search. Actually, to replace your whole computer with a google search. <\/p>\n<p> Aside from things like simple arithmetic (e.g., <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%2824*7%2F3%29%5E2+mod+5\">(24*7\/3)^2 mod 5<\/a>, you can also ask it things like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=three+cups+in+tablespoons\">three cups in tablespoons<\/a> (and it tells you how many tablespoons!). <\/p>\n<p> I also read somewhere that one of the top searches in google is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=cnn\">cnn<\/a>. That is, many people go to google and search for cnn rather than going to the fairly easy to remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\">cnn.com<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/products\/firebird\">Mozilla Firebird<\/a> now seems to take you to the &#8220;I&#8217;m Feeling Lucky&#8221; google search result if you just type some random string into the URL bar. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/laniels.org\/cgi-bin\/weblog\">Steve<\/a> points out that you can also do searches for things such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=radius+of+earth\">radius of earth<\/a>, and get a nice numerical result back from the google calculator. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New cool feature: the google calculator. Type all sorts of mathematical expressions in as your google search, and you get the result as your answer! It must all be part of google&#8217;s scheme to replace the URL with the google search. Actually, to replace your whole computer with a google search. Aside from things like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}