20+ Neat Google Tricks You Had No Idea About

Google has a habit of hiding useful little surprises in plain sight, and most people never notice them. Beyond search, it can act like a calculator, a timer, a translator, and a few other things that feel almost too simple to be real.

This list pulls together more than 20 Google tricks, from practical tools like flight info and unit conversions to playful extras like Google Gravity and Zerg Rush. Some are handy in a pinch, others are just fun to try when you have a minute to spare.

Either way, a few of these might change how you use Google every day.

1. Google can be a timer

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2. Google can provide information about festivities

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3. You can compare food nutritional facts

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4. If you type “Google gravity” or click “I’m feeling lucky” - interesting things happen

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5. It can be a calculator

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6. You can calculate a tip

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Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University in California. In May 2011, the number of monthly unique visitors to Google surpassed one billion for the first time.

It is now the most visited website worldwide, and the company owns several of the most popular websites, like YouTube and Blogger. Forbes ranked Google second on its Most Valuable Brands list.

That history makes the next few tricks even more fun.

7. You can even play a bit… Type “Atari Breakout” into Google images and enjoy…

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8. Type “do a barrel roll” and Google will actually do it

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9. If you include the word “anagram” in a search, Google will show anagrams

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10. If you type a minus before a certain word, Google will exclude it from its search

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11. If you don't want to bother with typing, just click the microphone

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12. Use it to get informed about your favorite tv shows

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13. Movies too

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Google's name originated from a misspelling of "googol," a number represented by a 1 followed by one-hundred zeros. Page and Brin said:" We chose our systems name, Google, because it is a common spelling of googol, and fits well with our goal of building very large-scale search engines."

For more globe-twisting surprises, check out hidden corners you’ve probably never heard of.

Even the name has a little story behind it.

14. You can get flight information

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15. You can convert all sorts of measures

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16. You can translate too

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17. If you search recursion - you will get stuck into recursion

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18. If you type “tilt” - this will happen

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19. Get sunset and sunrise information

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20. You cant get information about the global weather

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21. If you type Zerg rush you will end up defending your search results from Google’s o’s

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It affected our lives so much that it even got its own verb. "Googling" is "to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the Internet."

The way the company progresses and expands its services, we can assume that "googling" will soon take on a much broader meaning.

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