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.)
Buy, download, share
The book contains over 220 pages and is available to buy Amazon for $19.66.
You can also download the full book as PDF (or Word)... it’s free to share & remix & do fun stuff with.
Reviews
“Loved it! My wife (who rarely reads, and isn’t really into Google)
has even picked it up and she’s all over it.”
– Garett Rogers, ZDnet
“The variation in style of each chapter was quite refreshing. Some chapters are quite short, others consist of just pictures, there are a couple of quizzes, short stories, a few games you can play with Google, plenty of interesting facts ... an excellent book for anyone who has an interest in Google or just wants to know what else you can do with the most popular search engine in the world. This isn’t a complicated reference guide on how to use Google as a tool – it’s an entertaining book on how to use Google as a toy!”
– Tony Ruscoe, Programmer, UK
“This is an excellent read for both the geeky and the non geeky folks. ... Verdict: Highly Recommended reading.”
– Peter Dawson, Canada
Other versions
Thanks to the great work of you guys there is a Chinese translation effort available at 55fun.cn (there are already different Chinese versions), as well as two English HTML versions (some of these projects are works in progress). Contact me if you also have a conversion or translation online.
Chapters
- Egogoogling: Susan Is...
- The Google Snake Game
- Memecodes: Survival of the Fittest Web Pages
- The Google Irritation Game, and the Google Image Quiz
- Googling Proverbs
- Browsing Images of a Site
- A Brief History of Googlesport
- What is Google, and what do people consider fun about it?
- How Much Time Google Saves Us
- Google Cookin’ a Lemon Chicken
- Douglas Adams and the Google Calculator
- Oops, I Googled Again
- The Disappearing Google Logo, a Magic Trick
- Fun With Google Maps, the Wiki Way
- Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack
- Google Q&A
- Celebrate Google Non-Weddings, and More
- Design Your SketchUp Dream House
- Kevin Bacon and the Google Network
- The Google Alphabet
- Google Search Tips
- Googlepark
- Googleshare
- The Shortest Google Search (and the One Returning the Most Results)
- Google Rotated and Mini Google
- The Google Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Google?
- Recreate Google From Memory
- The Strange World of Google News
- Aliens Attack Google!
- Top Ten Signs You Are Addicted to Google
- Dig a Hole Through Earth
- Googlebombing
- Google Ads Gone Wrong
- Life in the Age of Google
- Google Hacking
- Googlepolls: Ask the Crowd
- Googlefights
- What If Google Was Evil? Plus: Five Inventions of the Google Future
- The Google Adventure Game
- Egobot, Voice of the Web
- Fun Google Gadgets
- Forty-Two, or: A Science-Fiction Interlude
- The Google Book of World Records
- Spelling Errors Galore
- Google Groups, Time Machine
- Growing a Google Word
- Most Popular Words, and PopSents
- Create Google Poetry, Prose, and Collages
- Funny Google Videos
- The Realplayer Fish, or: Telling a Story in Synonyms
- Google Parodies
- The Google Images Prediction Trick
- Fun With Google Translations
- The Giant Google Painting
- Googledromes
Special thanks to Mark Draughn, Iolaire McFadden and Miel Van Opstal for helping out with the book.
You can post your feedback in the Google Blogoscoped forum or on the Lulu page.
Got questions on the book? Please email me at philipp.lenssen@gmail.com
Bonus link: Make Google logo black and white!