52 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Google

  1. Browse the classics without opening a book
  2. Never wake up your Australian relatives at 3am again
  3. Convert £ to Yuan instantly
  4. See the Cerne Giant in your bedroom
  5. Automatically save every draft of your wedding list/seating plan
  6. Flight arrival and departure times in real time
  7. Say ‘I don’t speak Italian’, in Italian
  8. Are you big in Uzbekistan?
  9. Settle trivia disputes in the pub
  10. Watch your favourite YouTube clips in high-resolution
  11. Stargaze on a bright sunny day, or on a cloudy afternoon
  12. Get directions when you’re on the move
  13. Find out who’s free for lunch without asking
  14. Keep your family videos in the family
  15. Know not only when the FTSE moves, but why
  16. Find local cinema times
  17. Make your homepage YOUR homepage
  18. Inspiration, insight or information for your essay, dissertation or thesis Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II video
  19. Turn your email into a conversation
  20. Show your kid where the Komodo dragon lives
  21. Go back to work without going back to the office white alive mp3
  22. What Coleridge actually wrote was…
  23. Have your daily schedule sent to you every morning
  24. Map out the local sights for visiting friends
  25. Share your YouTube favorites on the bus
  26. Get the latest weather forecast for Hyderabad, or anywhere else on Earth
  27. Search the web Elmer Fudd style
  28. Fill in web forms with one click
  29. Add comments directly into your videos
  30. Star or label important emails for easy reference
  31. See tomorrow’s storm coming a thousand miles off
  32. Multiply 27,334.56 by 21.3 without a calculator
  33. Tart up your holiday snaps before sending them out to mates
  34. Read a newspaper written in a language you don’t speak
  35. Learn a new skill in a minute
  36. You are here. The pub you want is there
  37. Work on the same document from four corners of the Earth
  38. Know when to take the high road or the low road
  39. Make yourself feel better - convert your weight from pounds to kilos
  40. Translate your website into 13 languages with a single line of code
  41. Glam up your YouTube channel
  42. Find the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything
  43. Find the email in the haystack
  44. DJ at your friend’s party…take your playlist with you
  45. See the effects of climate change for yourself
  46. Survey your mates to conclusively agree on the best film of all time
  47. Be famous for 15 seconds, minutes or days
  48. Travel as the crow flies, or go right around the houses
  49. Work on your online documents even when you’re offline
  50. Love this video? Don’t miss the sequel
  51. Preserve instant message conversations
  52. Add a YouTube player to your website

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