Google Fun and Useful Tools for Web Developers
If you’ve never poked around Google for fun you really should!
Ok let’s start with the Web Developer Tools.
These can be found by going to the Google search page, and clicking more and going into the Google Labs area.
Here are my three favorite areas to look at. Google Trends gives you a good idea of the most popular web sites and what the more popular web sites are going to be by giving you info on the most popular searches search engine-wide. Google Suggest can be used as a light key word research tool, it gives you helpful suggestions for key words to search under as you type your own search in the search bar. Google Page Creator can be used as an HTML editor, and prepares your pages for the Google search engine because that is what is actually creating the pages!
-Google Trends
-Google Suggest
-Page Creator
Here’s another fun Google thing; It actually shows you the “web” of the World Wide Web. You can use it for fun, and it also serves as a great tool to see linking on a site you are working on.
http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html
Here’s a great place to get your gMap: http://www.yourgmap.com/
AND finally the FUN:
Did you know that if you text 466453 (Google) from your phone and in the body of the text message put in a query for any number of things you will get a text message back with the answer?
It’s true! Just a few of the things you can get an answer for: Weather, Glossary, Sports, Maps and the list goes on! Check it out, I love this feature and most people I encounter have never heard of it!