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Unseen Pages of Google

November 22, 2007 – 2:32 am |Ajay M | 5,138 views | Google | Comments (21)

Google has definitely created a niche for them. It is a rare incident that a web surfer has not heard about Google. This is the major search engine that has eveolved out of a PHD project. Pages and products like Doodles, Google Blog, Google Store, Google Docs and Google Labs are well known to every body. But apart from these well known products and pages there are more in the massive repository of Google and some of them are known to a smaller community only. So here goes a list of pages of google which are there accessible to all but known to a few:

1. Google Beta logo

It seems that the logo was being used as Google logo when it was in beta phase. The current Google logo looks quite better than this.

2. Google Newsletter

It was the way of communicating with the users, now-a-days it has been incorporated into google groups. All the happenings and progress were being conveyed to users (members) through this news letter.

3. Testimonials

This is a way to submit your feedback abot google. In google’s word it is like this:

Tell your story in the box below and hit the submit button. Be sure to include details such as the terms you used to search if you think it would be helpful for others. And some information about yourself if you care to share. We’ll be posting some of these stories on the Google website, so look for your story in the near future.

4. Google Moms

A tribute to all mothers. A mothers’s day release from google.

5. Google Heart

Google expresses the valentine day wishes by releasing this to the whole online community of users. Another variant is here.

6. 9/11 Search Stats

And what they say : At 6:51 a.m. on Tuesday, more than 6,200 queries for “cnn” were conducted on Google. Between 6:26 a.m. and 7:06 a.m., the number of searches for “cnn” averaged approximately 6,000 queries per minute.

7. Zeitgeist

It gives a statistical analysis of the search trend. On May 22 it has been replaced by HOT TRENDS which provides many additional functionality including viewing search trends of the past.


8. Google Service Tour

This is the best page I found. Have many google features explained. Read all the features and click on the links to have a indepth knowledge and exploit the full potential of google search.

9. Search Google to locate Microsoft, Linux or FreeBSD related pages. Now you must tell Google hates none.

10. Britney Spears or did I say Britany Spiers?

The spelling corerction system of google found the misspellings when people entered the search key word for Britney Spears.

11. Easter Egg

Taking the term “easter egg” literally (and perhaps to celebrate the Easter holiday), Google has an official Easter Eggs page.

12. Google Moon

On July 20, 2005, Google debuted a version of Google Maps that included a small segment of the surface of the moon. It is based entirely on NASA images and includes only a very limited region. Panning causes the map to tile. Zooming in too much shows a picture of Swiss cheese. The map also gives the locations of all moon landings. Google created the page on the 36th anniversary of the first human landing on the moon.

12. Ride Finder

Google launched an experimental Google Maps-based tool called Ride Finder, tapping into in-car GPS units for a selection of participating taxi and limousine services. The tool displays the current location of all supported vehicles of the participating services in major US cities, including Chicago and San Francisco on a Google Maps street map.

13. April Fool pages

In each April Fool’s day google announces some of the services which later turns out as an April Fool joke. These services are MentalPlex(2000), Pigeon Rank (2002), Lunar Job (2004), Google Gulp (2005), Google Romance (2006), Gmail paper and TiSP (2007).

14. Google language

Apart from many International flavor of Google like Hindi, Chinese, Japanese, German you can find Google Seach in Bork bork bork, Pig Latin, Hacker and Elmer Fudd.

If you have found any other less known pages fro Google, please let me know in the comment section.

Posted On November 22, 2007 – 2:32 am by Ajay M and is filed under Google. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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21 Responses to “Unseen Pages of Google”

  1. Web tools
    November 22nd, 2007 at 5:49 am

    Nice compilation. Certainly a good list to revisit.

  2. djahna
    November 22nd, 2007 at 7:46 pm

    I lovie love Google.. Thanks for introducing me to more of what it’s got!!

  3. Matthew Griffin
    November 26th, 2007 at 3:53 pm

    I must admit, I had only heard of a couple of these before I read this post. The Google balloon seems to be getting bigger and bigger.

  4. desinet1
    November 27th, 2007 at 9:11 pm

    Hi, Ajay,
    I am back.
    I was just checking your stats at Technorati.
    Was very impressed to know that you enjoy a Technorati Authority of 118. It was great for a blog, who has just started blog in this month itself.
    But I was puzzled to find links in Technorati as old as 6 months.
    What is the reason ?
    I mean were you working on teh same domain earlier with some other blog.
    If you could clarify, it will help me out.

  5. Ajay M
    November 27th, 2007 at 9:34 pm

    @ Desinet

    First off all I must say that this is not the appropriate place to ask this question. However to answer this I started this blog in May. If you read my first post in this blog you will get to know about it and hopefully your doubt will be cleared.

  6. Brian Cook
    November 27th, 2007 at 9:59 pm

    I was familiar with zeitgeist and have found it quite useful, but that Google Easter Eggs thing was new and hilarious.

  7. Chris
    November 28th, 2007 at 5:24 am

    Bookmarked this post… nice resource. Thanks for posting.

  8. Manu
    November 28th, 2007 at 10:03 pm

    Great list.
    I really liked it especially the one with videos.

  9. Mario
    November 29th, 2007 at 1:45 am

    Wow, some of these are amazing finds.

    The only one I have seen before was TiSP, which happens to be hilarious!

  10. desinet1
    November 29th, 2007 at 8:21 pm

    Ya Ajay,
    Now I came to know the story.
    Just wanted to clarify that I had to raise this doubt here because I did\t find a contact page on your blog. Although now I can see your other places like facebook etc.

  11. Ajay M
    November 30th, 2007 at 12:43 am

    I am still working on my main site i.e techiezone.in, once that is ready you will find contcat form there…

  12. Dog Grooming Clippers
    November 30th, 2007 at 11:40 pm

    Very nice list, I always become giddy over finding hidden things like this.

  13. USC Trojan Fan
    December 5th, 2007 at 3:10 am

    LOL, Google Romance was my favorite …

  14. coozie
    December 11th, 2007 at 11:53 am

    google moon lol

    can’t wait for the other planets, and we all though google earth was too much :)

  15. seo services
    December 18th, 2007 at 3:19 pm

    some of the pages i have seen before but some pages are totally new for me.

  16. moregadget
    December 20th, 2007 at 3:39 am

    wow, never heard that before, bookmarked it first, really nice information, since it just find it new for me.. the video one is really interesting

  17. tmnicelt
    January 5th, 2008 at 1:37 pm

    wow, quite a number of “secret pages” in Google that i have never seen before.. thanks for sharing

  18. 80s Music
    March 3rd, 2008 at 11:59 pm

    It’s too bad some of these have gone down, I really like these ‘easter eggs’

  19. Mmo
    June 18th, 2008 at 12:17 am

    You guys didn’t mention the google Klingon language translator. If you go to language tools, Klingon is actually on the list [From Star Trek] :D

  20. Ajay M
    June 21st, 2008 at 12:10 am

    Hey that a nice find MMo.
    Thanks for letting me know.

  21. April Bowlby
    September 23rd, 2008 at 2:20 pm

    Google has definitely made its mark. It’s progressed to more than just a search engine, especially with new features like iGoogle and Google Talk.

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