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A Google a Day
- mamurphy 10y agoWith this and https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/ https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/, whether I want to play super-obscure-trivia or draw stick figures, google has me covered.
- jasonkostempski 10y agoIs this actually by Google? I couldn't easily figure that out.
- jeron 10y agohave you tried Googling it? Jokes aside, yes it's from google. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Google_A_Day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Google_A_Day)
- emodendroket 10y agoWish it gave me some sense of how my score stacked up to others.
- chrisfosterelli 10y agoFWIW, I had a total score around 1850. It took me quite a while to figure the first one out but the second two were faster.
- barsonme 10y agoSame, 1807. I got hung up on the first one since I didn't know we could click links.
- danso 10y agoFWIW, if you enjoy this kind of stuff, you might like Daniel Russell's (Google research scientist, creator of A Google A Day) blog on using Google Search for research (and research on how people use search): http://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/ http://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/ He regularly posts quirky challenges (What kind of cow is in this picture? Can you see the Farallon Islands from San Francisco, and where should you stand at what time of year to best see them?). Also contains lots of useful information about the state of the query and engine, such as which search operators have been deprecated, or which obscure search operators no one seems to know about.
- petra 10y agoThat's a good start but looking up discrete facts is far less useful that looking up deep answers or articles about very specific subjects. I wish Google taught that.
- danso 10y agoI think researchers might argue that looking for deep answers almost always depends on being able to look up and efficiently collate discrete facts that are straightforward when considered in isolation.
- divbit 10y agoThere should be two parts: part 1. Gather as many facts as possible part 2. Separate the wheat facts from the chaff(sp?) facts in relation to whatever problem you are working on
- jeron 10y agoare the questions always the same?
- homerguy69 10y agoI believe its a set of three new ones everyday
- jannyfer 10y agoIn a review of Google Home, I was amazed to learn that you can ask "Who is the guy that plays God in a lot of movies" and Google will answer back with Morgan Freeman. I'd love to try asking the questions from this site to Google Home and see how it does.
- LouisSayers 10y agoIt's like when you Google 'Eyebrow kid', and you get back Will Poulter... it's like... but how does Google know?! hahaha
- euyyn 10y agoGoogle goes to the movies too! :D
- dwe3000 10y agoGeorge Burns? (kidding - Morgan Freeman does a great job too).
- droidist2 10y agoBurns was good as both God and the Devil in "Oh, God! You Devil"
- squeaky-clean 10y agoThe Google voice stuff is really impressive. It also holds context between queries. One of the things I've asked it that I think was most impressive, I was watching Archer and recognized a voice "Ok, Google, who's the voice actor for Rip Riley on Archer?" "Patrick Warburton" "Ok, Google, what else has he been in?" It then searched for "What has Patrick Warburton been in". Apparently it's the same guy that voiced Joe Swanson on Family Guy and Brock Samson on Venture Bros, that's how I recognized it!
- taneq 10y agoHe's also The Tick!
- magic_beans 10y agoWhat's the point of this? To learn how to use google search? Who is the intended audience?
- wnevets 10y agoI had a trailing space and it said my answer was wrong
- glup 10y agoya, it had a trailing space.
- giarc 10y agoThis seems pretty fun however navigation seems a bit difficult. Some links from Google results wouldn't open and I had to open in a different tab, then go back to the main tab. Not sure if it's my browser or the game?
- supermdguy 10y agoI had the same experience with unopenable links. I just did everything in a separate tab.
- gingericha 10y agoFunny, I thought that was how the game was played. It wouldn't let me open up any external sites so I was forced to find my answers directly in the search results. I wish the answers had a bit more give to them. One of mine only accepted "Art Donovan" instead of his full name "Arthur James Donovan Jr". Regardless, it was enjoyable to test my search skills against the clock.
- hanksy 10y agoI had to open in another tab as well.
- BickNowstrom 10y agoThese days, you can not have Pub Quizes with at least a few teams cheating by using a phone to Google the answers. Knowing trivia of the top of your head seems to have become as useful a skill as calligraphy. A friend of mine was about to fall for a hoax/scam. And even though they changed the words and meaning of quite a few elements, I was able to pinpoint the exact scam using carefully crafted Google queries. With Google there is just no way to bullshit people anymore. Someone would tell a strong story in the 90s during a birthday, and you'd have to go to library the next day to verify or discard it. Not anymore. Someone asked why those old modems made noise, and instead of giving an answer right away, it took all of 15 seconds to find the answer online, much better than I ever could answer it. I remember my first job skill test. It was multiple choice and you were allowed to use the internet. I answered all questions by Googling keywords from the question, in combination with keywords from each answer, and looking which combination gave the most results. Answering this way I got a near perfect score. There were questions about programming languages I hadn't even written a "Hello World"-example for. With all this goodness, comes of course the danger of relying on Google for all your answers. If it is not on the first page of the results it is not true. Especially younger people believe a lot of facts they find online. Another danger is using Google for confirming a bias: With so many pages online, there is bound to be a page in the results that agrees with your initial hunch, however incorrect it is. I participated in the pilot for Google Answers. There were people there that, if the answer was to be found anywhere online, could answer it, no matter their expertise on the subject. Googling well is a valuable skill.
- Lxr 10y agoThe difference in tech skill between me and my 80 year old Grandma is mostly my ability to Google.
- tsm 10y agoI used Google extensively and skillfully throughout my careers as a student and software developer. In the past few years I've been taking the music of 18th century Scotland very seriously, and it's been a major change of pace to have Google be next to useless. Suddenly all the skills I'd let languish—remembering what part of what book I'd read something in, using specialty research databases, inferring the answer to a question from multiple suboptimal sources, etcetera—matter again. Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's incredibly frustrating.
- sksixk 10y agoi remember a game very similar to this (that i used to participate in and do very poorly) back around mid 90s that people used to play online. except you'd use things like archie and gopher. i don't remember the details but someone(s) would come up with questions and you'd have to find the answers online using these tools (before google). anyone remember this game? my recollection is hazy but i think the questions were sent out periodically and teams would rush to get them all answered first.
- pimlottc 10y agoI remember something similar that was based on a website that would post questions that would lead you, after searching, to some particular site. Once you found the right page, there would be a logo for the game (something round with question marks?) that would take back to the original site and give you points for finding it. They kept a running tally that was used for a leader board and I think possibly some sort of prizes? I vaguely recall some sort of name like "Riddler" or something, but I have never been able to track down anything about it outside my own memory...
- notatoad 10y agothis sounds like fun, but the first query i did threw up a firefox "blocked by content security policy" error.
- 0003 10y agoAnyone else's comp become a turbine?
- squeaky-clean 10y agoSome of these were neat, some were really stupid. "What do you learn the definition of on page 21 of the 2011/2012 Official Rules of the NBA" was "legal goal" really? It doesn't say that anywhere on the page. "legal field goal" didn't work, "Scoring and Timing" didn't work (the header of the page). None of the other definitions on Page 21 worked, there's a few. The only mention of "legal goal" is in the Index where it points to page 21.
- hoorayimhelping 10y agoit was field goal, which is the common name used in statistics and broadcasts.
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- squeaky-clean 10y agoAh, when I used the first letters hint, it said they were L and G, not F and G, strange.
- reedlaw 10y ago"field goal" worked for me. I had to click the hint button which showed "legitimate".
- cryptozeus 10y agoVery hard to use it on mobile phone
- stonesam92 10y agoThis reminds me of "The Wikipedia Game" we'd play at school. You'd all start on one random page, and race to get to some completely unrelated target page, only by clicking through links to other pages. It was always surprising how few degrees of separation there were between wildly unrelated topics.
- farnsworth 10y agoWe played that too, I think we called it "five clicks to Jesus (or Hitler)" or something. After a while you learn which pages will probably be very long and general and will be good jumping off places to head in a new direction.
- droidist2 10y agoI just did this starting with the movie "Oh, God! You Devil": - James Cromwell - Category: American people of German descent - Category: Ambassadors of Germany to the United States - Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff - Adolf Hitler
- farnsworth 10y agoThat one is easy if you're trying to get to Jesus :)
- xinyhn 10y agoReminds me of... https://xefer.com/wikipedia https://xefer.com/wikipedia Builds some very cool chain of links all leading to Philosophy
- gberger 10y agoThey should call you out for directly googling the question, as it defeats the point, since you would get the answer only because the exact question was posted on some forum.
- schoen 10y agoIn the early 1990s there was a very conceptually similar game called the Internet Hunt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internet_Hunt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internet_Hunt An example of the very first one, from August 1992: http://www.ibiblio.org/history/1sthunt.txt http://www.ibiblio.org/history/1sthunt.txt Google has definitely made these a lot easier, so the questions have had to get a lot harder!
- Grue3 10y agoThe fact that it requires to type in the exact answer (for its own definition of exact) is annoying. The first question I got was how Hemingway's protagonists are called. Let's say the answer is "A B". Well, the answer I had to type in was "The Hemingway A B". Both "The" and "Hemingway" are mandatory. Later the question was what musical period was the definition of symphony, sonata etc. standartized in. I copy pasted "C period", it didn't work, so I tried some other ones. Well, apparently "C" was the correct answer all along.
- progval 10y agoLooks like a nice way for Google to train a machine learning model to answer trivia questions
- jaimehrubiks 10y agoLooks like a nice way for Google to prove that their ML model has made us into thinking we are indeed teaching it how to answer trivia questions.