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fizz writes "Well, Google has done it again. This time, simply enter any tracking number or id number into the Google search box, and Voila! You have a link to the shipper and tracking information. They have a funny little mom/son tech talk bit on the blog about this."
Ya-who?
Put them into Google every day to see if they're on the move...
I wonder if you could then call the shipper and tell them the ship-to address is wrong and have whatever it is sent to your house...
Someone's bound to try it, i betcha.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
User types "666" into the Google search box, hits Enter. "AAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
I typed in 42, and the first search result was The Answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything!
I won't belive there's a dupe till I see proof!
It's been like two hours since I saw a Google article.
I've been using this to track packages for a year. The internet archive says it's been available since February of '04.
But anything on the Google blog is news, I guess.
... my car keys. So what good is it?
--- Attorneys Assisting Citizen-Soldiers & Families -
Oh yeah definitly they should stop innovating.
Everytime they add a new feature I have this vague and unsupported feeling they are falling down this slippery slope towards utter evilness.
Please google for the sake of the children stop comming up with cool stuff. If you have to add something make it useless and sucky.
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep in order to gain what he cannot lose."
What numbers could Google search?
;)
How about large numbers you wanted factored into primes?
"Well, Google has done it again"
Yes, they managed to get on slashdot for something really, really old.
That's a hard question to answer. Maybe you should ask Jeeves.
This is what happens when geeks get billions of dollars (from going public) and have no parental supervision. :)
Sugapablo
Just because someone's mom doesn't know something about Google doesn't make it new.
Slashdot: news for moms, one year after.
Starsucks
Microsoft have been trying this one for a while now, and are still considered evil...
Paul
I'm waiting for the day I can type in "F/22/Southern California" and get a list of interested, available women. =P
C'mon Google, help us out! =]
'mmmmmmmmm.... forbidden donut'
I wish I'd thought of this years ago. You mean I can avoid paying income tax just by earning nothing? I'll tell the payroll department right away! Think of all the money I'll save!
Look, up in the sky! it's sarcasm flying over your head!
Did anybody notice this :
Enter anything you want to search on www.google.com input box, click "Google Search" and VOILA!! Google displays the webpages containing those keywords!!!
Everyone is a snob of something. You have sports snobs, fashion snobs, IT snobs, food snobs, anything.
You raise a really, really good point about nerd culture in general. While nerds are seen as being outcasts by and large, we definatly push keep that true. We like unpopular things by choice, and shun popular things, much like popular things/people shun us.
It's great to be a geek.
My personal favorite: the speed of light = 1.8026175 × 1012 furlongs per fortnight
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." - H.L. Mencken