14 DAY TRIAL // Google is certainly a great tool but every good thing has its negative side effects. For search engines, one of them is that it makes trivia games significantly less challenging, even the most cryptic questions can be answered in minutes if you know how and where to look.
Granted, taking some of the fun out of trivia games doesn't exactly compare against all of the great benefits that Google and modern search engines provide.
But the company felt like it had to make it up to fans, so it has now created A Google a Day, a new website which asks one question each day and encourages users to make the most out of the tools provided by Google Search to find the answer.
"A Google a Day is a new daily puzzle that can be solved using your creativity and clever search skills on Google. Questions will be posted every day on agoogleaday.com and printed on weekdays above the New York Times crossword puzzle," Dan Russell, User Experience Researcher at Google, announced.
"We’ll reveal each puzzle’s answer the next day in the Times and on agoogleaday.com, along with the search tips and features used to find it," he explained.
Interestingly enough, Google has partnered with the New York Times for the feat and the questions will also appear in the 'offline' version of the newspaper.
You can visit agoogleaday.com to see the questions posted so far, they started last week on April 7th. The questions can be quite challenging, though some are easier, and they usually take several linked searches to get to the answer.
One question asks: "How many cubits tall is the structure that houses the ZIP code 10118?" The obvious thing to do is to search for the 10118 ZIP code which will reveal that the building in question is none other than the Empire State Building. Next you have to find the building's height and covert it into cubits, all of which can be done on Google Search.