14 DAY TRIAL // Math is always a pain in the behind if you're not particularly good at it, but it did give birth to some very interesting idioms so many are willing to turn a blind eye to the pain and horror of not getting the correct result just because of it. Perhaps not all that many, but hearing "it was harder than Chinese algebra" always made me chuckle. Besides, I'm way past having to study math in school.
Matt Cutts, the Google guru, has recently wrote on his blog that he was somewhat surprised to see many conversions being calculated just by throwing in the search box the number and the base he wanted the results. With him being an insider and not knowing this, you might wonder just how big the company's operations are.
He noted that Google Calculator converts to and from hexadecimal, binary and decimal in a second, something to be counting on when you're doing your homework late at night and it's really important to get it right. But these operations are not all the Calculator does, the engineer team in charge of developing it also threw in monetary conversion, at each moment's currency.
Surprisingly, few people know of these features and chances are that if some amount of pushing the Calculator forward into the viewer's eyes was to be made, it would be on of Google's more popular items. But then again, what do I know, it wasn't there when physics homework haunted my nights and now that it's here, I seldom find any use for it.
Some more things to try typing into the search query box would have to be package tracking numbers, airline flight numbers and, come to think of it, pretty much anything that could have been crawled by Google so far. We're not far from the day when some bloke will go live on national television and say that if you can't find it with Google, it's not there.