
Tip #4775 - Google Experimental
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Google
Experimental
Are you tired
of the same old and boring Google?

Oh, that just
makes me yawn!
Luckily, Google
has been experimenting with their search engine and they want you
to help them out! It’s fittingly titled Google Experimental
and with it, you have access to one of the three search experiments
Google is trying out. How cool is that? Let's take a look!
Alternate
Views
1.) Go to http://www.google.com/experimental/
and choose Join this experiment, listed under the
"Alternate views for search results" section.

2.) To try it
out, go back to http://www.google.com,
type in "George Washington view:timeline" and see what comes
up.
3.) It will show
you a timeline of George Washington's life, along with a graph that
shows you when the major events of his documented life occurred. How
nifty!

I bet you want
to try out the rest, don't you? Then let's go!
Keyword
Suggestions
1.) Go back to
the Google Experimental
homepage and click Leave where the Join this
experiment option was before. Then click on the Join this
experiment button, located to the right of the "Keyword
suggestions" section.

2.) Now, click
here
and type in a word such as "WorldStart." Wait a second until
you see a box that looks like this:

3.) If you like
any of the options it gives you, just click on one and you'll be taken
right to the real search results.
Keyboard
Shortcuts
1.) Go back to
Google Experimental
and leave your old experiment to join the next one, under the "Keyboard
shortcuts" section.
2.) For this one,
I’d suggest right clicking on the link labeled "rattlesnake"
and then choose Open in New Window. That way, you
can easily refer back to your shortcuts.
3.) Press the
letter J on your keyboard and see what happens. Then
press the letter K. The arrow is moving up and down.
How handy is that?!
4.) Press the
/ (forward slash) on your keyboard and type in "WorldStart."
Press Enter and then press J three
times. Now, press Enter again and if you’re
still following me, you should be on WorldStart's software store site!
Those are just
a few examples of what you can do with Google Experimental. Check
it out today!
~ Brandon Zubek
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