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...nds.google.com/trends/explore?q=tumblr,blog,wordpress,livejournal&date=all Google trends for the terms "blog", "tumblr", "wordpress", and "livejournal"]. ...012. As of the date of this comic, 'blog' still beats 'Tumblr' in terms of search volume, but a dotted line projection of the trend shows that on October 12,

...nstantly]] [[135: Substitute|referred]] [[1110: Click and Drag|to]] [[155: Search History|before]] [[758: Raptor Fences|in]] this comic. ...ari browser in Texas, iPhone 5 Chrome Browser in Minnesota, long version - Google Chrome browser in Indiana, Windows 8 Laptop

:[4. Rectangle] Google the name of the program plus a few words related to what you want to do. Fo [[Category:Google Search]]

...es easier to read, some remove ads (the third extension is [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom AdBlock]) and ...ve around text replacement are humorous in nature (such as [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cloud-to-butt-plus/apmlngnhgbnjpajelfkmabhkfapgnoai?hl=

...how how many hits (or web pages) are returned as relevant based on a given search replacing <X> by different numbers. ...is generally considered a bell curve around a B or C cup, yet the hits on Google describe almost an exact opposite trend. Taken with the above male penis le

...that those trying to solve tech problems have. Typically, people search on Google to try to find solutions to the problem. Sometimes the solution can be foun | style="text-align:right;"|As when I Google an error

...h algorithm}} and {{w|Dijkstra's algorithm}} are {{w|Graph traversal|graph search}} {{w|algorithm}}s. And what study of algorithms would be complete without :Donald Knuth: Why is A* search wrong in this situation?

...y 2017, Google's AI AlphaGo [http://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/google-ai-becomes-world-s-top-ranking-go-player-1.3097756 defeated the world's top

| titletext = Facebook, Apple, and Google all got away with their monopolist power grabs because they don't have any ...st cases concerning [https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/12/googles-new-search-results-raise-privacy-and-antitrust-concerns/ privacy] and [https://www.blo

| titletext = The Street View van isn't going to find out anything Google won't already know from reading my email. ...SN of all time.] The retinal scan takes this even further, indicating that Google's cameras are collecting fine enough images to identify people by {{w|Retin

...m. Randall thought the sort of people who would be curious enough to go to Google and type them in are probably the sort of people who would like xkcd, so he

...that these don't clearly peak on any one day indicates that (according to Google, at least) big days are spread out fairly evenly throughout the week (with :Polar graph of what stuff happens on which days, based on number of Google results for phrases like "company meeting on <day>."

...me strategy as comic [[715: Numbers]], in which [[Randall]] uses Google to search for phrases and then charts the results. This one is charted as a timeline, ...s predicted or announced by anyone at any time (the ones you see on Google search using "by the year..." or similar statements).

...s Library Project}}, by using the {{w|Google Ngram Viewer}} ([http://books.google.com/ngrams link]). ...h landed in George Washington's own plantation, which likely bolstered its search volume. Yet the significance of the globally significant terrorism incident

...://www.google.com/search?q=1%2F28+*+1%2Fdays+in+nanohertz as shown here by Google Calculator.]

...mably considered the "best" wheel by the world, using a daily Google image search for "wheel" to determine the highest ranked wheel, and then using that whee ...invent the wheel too seriously. When these people have a problem, they may Google to find a solution to that problem, and when they find a piece of online co

...remember what the letters stand for without looking them up, such as with Google. The joke here is that a "tar" command with perfect syntax on the first try [[Category:Google Search]]

...[adjective]"'' and ''"[adjective] as shit"''. Plot data is based on Google search engine result count, or ''hits''. The graph's formula uses the {{w|natural ...y with which various adjectives are intensified with obscenities (based on Google hits)

| title = Google Trends ...rsonal parts of this data under the banner "[http://www.google.com/trends/ Google Trends]."

...oogle's first social networks before Google made [https://plus.google.com/ Google+]. It shut down in 2014. ...e playing video games to questionably-legal uploads of cartoons and films. Google had purchased YouTube.

{{w|SETI}} is the "Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence" project trying to find messages from ali ...velty)|a novelty item}} based on an optical effect, not actual x-rays. {{w|Google Glass}} did not exist at the time when this comic was created.

| title = Search History ...e {{w|Jurassic Park (movie)|Jurassic Park}} movie he saw when younger. The search "{{w|Utahraptor}}" may be a reference to Dinosaur Comics, which xkcd has pa

...ay] (now defunct, [https://web.archive.org/web/20150608073106/https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.drewhannay.xkcdtime archive]). :+1632:00 [They search for another location to climb the cliff.]

...s called the "Google of China" for the similar services it provides. Baidu Search results follow the censorship dictates of the Chinese authorities, causing |Google

...requency of strip versions of various games is measured by means of Google search results. Strip versions of popular games are a common activity at parties, The last column features games of which strip versions are (according to Google) nonexistent. While the other columns named sports or board games where a s

...t combination of ''x'' = 2 and ''y'' = 1 generates a significant number of search results, being 257 times as frequent as the runner-up, "1 Girl 1 Cup." ...rench hens and 2 turtle doves to 1 cup. All are phrases with apparently no search results.

| title = Google Maps | titletext = Apparently Google assumes you're traveling during the ferry's normal operating hours. We lost

| titletext = I love how Google handles dimensional analysis. Stats are ballpark and vary wildly based on t ...will enter the equation with the example parameters into the {{w|Google}} search engine. The built-in calculator will output the result in the correct {{w|

...Yahoo!]''' was the most popular search engine around 1998, but lost out to Google. It remains in business due to diversification (it now owns Tumblr, for ins * '''[http://orkut.com Orkut]''': A social media network launched in 2004 by Google, it became hugely popular in Brazil, India, and, to a lesser extent, Japan.

...during the election season. As soon as he says this, however, he starts to search for information on the {{w|United States presidential election, 2012|2012 e :Google '2012 polling statistics'

...ic was released, the search results for ''"I'm glad I saw Epic Movie"'' at Google did grow up to more than 8,000 results. :Number of Google results for: "I _____ have kissed her" (or him)

...t the time of this comic, if you enclosed search terms in quotation marks, Google looked up the exact phrase rather than the individual words in any order (t ...ly, both snake charming and haberdashery accidents also return hundreds of Google results.

...he screen in the cinema). "<tt>_BLURAY_CAM</tt>" would probably indicate a search-keyword-stuffed fake copy; fake pirated media often contain viruses (althou ...//www.google.com/search?q=site:edu+filetype:dll reputable websites (Google search)] or here at [https://signin.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll eBay], indicating th

...ort.google.com/websearch/answer/106230?hl=en autocomplete] that guesses at search queries before they are fully typed out. These guesses are generally made b :[This strip is a rectangular word cloud, titled 'Questions found in Google autocomplete'. Embedded in the cloud are five single panels, with illustrat

...s in order to sell personalised advertisement. The idea of secret plans of Google has been mentioned in comic [[792]]. ...y, FEMA, the New World Order, the Federal Reserve, Citigroup, Halliburton, Google, the Vatican, Bilderburg, Walmart, the Rothschilds, the Knights Templar, HA

...s typically number in the tens of millions (or more; in fact, more popular search results are in the billions), only the very first results are mapping to th ...and penalizing web sites for such tactics. Webrings were also used in pre-google days to make it easy to find websites sharing a common theme, but since one

| title = Google Announcement ...at Google+ was going to be shut down, despite the continuing comments from Google that it would remain active and updated. It lasted five more years, finally

Cueball searches [http://lmgtfy.com/?q=where+do+birds+go+when+it+rains%3F Google] to find out where birds go when it rains. He finds that the question is as :Cueball: "Where do birds go when it rains?" is my new favorite Google search.

...imagination. (Then again, there is not anything tailored to this on image search.) ...arently unimaginative, even humorously so,{{Citation needed}} Google image search does recognize that the subject of Megan's photograph is a cloud, which is

...voice activated intelligent personal assistant software such as Google's "Google Now", Apple's "Siri" or Microsoft's "Cortana" to respond without having to ...e if you're logged in and your phone runs on the Android operating system. Google will, in fact, find your phone (to the precision allowed by GPS and assumin

...to type "what the heck is a leftpad algorithm" into your browser and have Google return a list of relevant results, including correcting "leftpad" to "left- |style="padding-right:8em;"|Google<br>Search<br>backend

...earch?site=&tbm=isch&q=upside-down%2Bmap%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bworld Google Images] search reveals many examples of upside-down maps with the text-oriented correctly

| [https://www.google.com/search?q=low-end+bicycle+price A quick google search] will tell us that this is still a fairly realistic price. | [https://www.google.com/search?q=men's+suit+price A quick google search] will tell us that this is a fairly realistic price, although much cheaper

| titletext = [10 years later] Man, why are people so comfortable handing Google and Facebook control over our nuclear weapons? ...uld have suspected just 20 years ago; to the point that companies like {{w|Google}} or {{w|Facebook}} get almost unimaginable amounts of data from their user

...e name for the character {{w|asterisk}} and the name of the popular {{w|A* search algorithm}} in computer science. ...| New || {{w|Google Earth}} || {{w|Google Earth}} is a service, similar to Google Maps, which projects satellite data on a 3D globe that can be zoomed in on.

*The comic is a link to [http://goo.gl/forms/B5RaBeZ6nw The xkcd survey] on Google, which is closed. ...es, it links to a survey created with [https://www.google.com/forms/about/ Google Forms], containing a series of questions. The questions range from mundane

...{{w|HTML}} code for the page was quite simple. But in less than 20 years, Google developers have vastly expanded it, with over 300 kilobytes of {{w|Minifica ...ve: [https://web.archive.org/web/20151118000129/http://www.google.com/ www.google.com homepage (18 Nov 2015)].

...ns, except for parking lot navigation. Other than Tesla, companies such as Google, Waabi, and Euler Motors are working on self-driving vehicles, though Tesla ..."Jeeves" as a less than superb robot butler presumably refers to the early search site {{w|Ask Jeeves}}, and may be a reference to the robot of that name tha

...ery is shown in a frame to indicate what Cueball has searched for with the search button below in gray text:] :<font color="gray">Search</font>

...placing its suggestions in a drop-down box beneath the input area. If the search box is clicked on but nothing is typed, the drop-down box by default shows Here we see a list of search queries, each of which suggests the author is perversely misusing or overex

...is no recursive loop, any loop is your mistake). See also {{w|Depth-first search}}. ...eans "Eastern Capital") when it became the capital in 1868. [https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Tokyo%2CTokei&year_start=1870&year_end=1880&corpus

...= For even more info, see blarbl(2)(3) and birb(3ahhaha I'm kidding, just Google it like a normal person. ...a program does is going the long way round, when it's much simpler to get Google to tell you.

.... Other companies, including [https://bitly.com/ bit.ly], [https://goo.gl/ Google] (ultimately fully discontinued March 30, 2019), and [https://t.co/ Twitter ...s://reports.internic.net/cgi/whois?whois_nic=tinyurl.com&type=domain whois search] as of February 2021 finds that the tinyurl.com domain is next due for rene

| titletext = When you Google an error message and it gets no results, you can be pretty sure you've foun ...debugging, often leading to useful information. However, when there are no search results for a given message, it may mean the problem is so obscure that alm

All names provide an indirect link to the first {{w|Google Search}} result on that specific person and position. As common, {{w|Democratic Pa : Megan: Google Steve King.

| titletext = [Google search] how do I block my lawn The title text expands on this, with him searching {{w|Google}} for how to "block the lawn". Blocking someone refers to a standard settin

| titletext = Google and Yelp keep deleting my scathing reviews of the Mariana Trench, the Chern Many online advertising services and social media networks (like {{w|Google}} and {{w|Yelp}}, both mentioned in the title text, and for instance {{w|Fa

|At some border crossings, government agents may search computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices. The usual advice for ...ne on a computer would not help one's internet security. May also refer to Google Chrome [https://www.proofpoint.com/us/threat-insight/post/EITest-Nabbing-Ch

| titletext = The top search for every state is PORN, except Florida, where it's SEX PORN. ....com/GoogleTrends/status/869624196921303040 this map] posted on Twitter by Google Trends the day before the comic was posted. Many web companies use maps lik

...at those mean without googling, basically revealing that he used Google to search for the codes, and has created a list for us to memorize. In fact, this lis

|Google ...he site (or even outside of it) with a name that appears to be an official Google account. For any of the examples in this section, you would select the name

...air saying "Frank ... Johnson. That sounds like a real person! Let me just Google him real quick." ...made impossible when the "Francis Drake" domino was played.) In a google search as of the day the comic came out the first hit was {{w|Frank Johnson (baske

...rends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F03x0cd,%2Fm%2F0b22w a comparison of Google search frequency for the years 2004-2018] shows that Garfield is indeed searched f

...ing alarmingly mathematical is happening, and you should probably pause to Google my name and check what field I originally worked in." A brief Google search reveals that Augustin-Louis Cauchy originally worked as a junior engineer i

| title = Google Trends Maps ...picture of what topics people are interested in (as evidenced by what they search for) at particular times and in different places. Used improperly, it can s

...suggesting that the term was popularized by Xkcd fans after [https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=they+did+the+math&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1 ...0ShannonMaxEntBoltzmann.pdf Jaynes (1957)] cited more than 12,000 times on Google Scholar, including by [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234147180_M

...ds/explore?date=today%203-m&q=covid Google search results for "COVID"] are search hits for that word. There is no relation between these two, and furthermore ...ting methodologies are refined. Given that and depending on the trends in Google searches for COVID, it's entirely possible for multiple points in time to m

| title = 2020 Google Trends ...lour,pangolin a Google Trends graph], showing massive spikes in a group of search terms, all around the same time. Some of the terms (flour, webcam, sewing m

...online platform, but Megan reveals they are instead shifting towards image search results. ...mers are going to the Google Image search page for [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22worst+ladder%22&source=lnms&tbm=isch "worst ladder"]. Even the meeting

...dlinks!' but then 6 months later you're doing some extremely cursed Google search like 'javascript ext4' and wondering where things went wrong. [[Category:Comics with cursed items]] <!-- Google search-term in title text -->

A search of google scholar indicates many articles with a score of 2 (e.g. [https://www.tandfo

| title = Google Solar Cycle | titletext = From Google Trends, it looks like the lag between people Googling cocktail recipes and

...around them. Skeletal remains are more often found [https://www.google.com/search?q=human+bones+in+trees in the roots of fallen trees]. They are mostly{{Actu

{{w|Google Scholar}} is a search engine for academic publications, and [[Randall]] has been having fun with :<big>Number of search results on Google Scholar</big>

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...th hard-to-spell words like "plagiarism" by entering their best guess into Google, then copy-pasting the correct version. He also does not consider the option to cite his Google search of the often misspelled word as a source when including the correct spellin

...://what-if.xkcd.com/108/ Expensive Shoebox], with the title text "A Google search for unsolved+packing+problems very nearly got me just now."