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55 Fun Things to Do With Google - #3 Googling Proverbs
Googling Proverbs
by Donna O'Hanlon
of http://www.oyster-web.co.uk
Last updated: 20 Oct 2006
55 Fun Things to Do With Google is a series of articles design to bring the lighter side of life to using Google. From Egogoogling to Googlewhacking and Google Translations, we show that search isnt all boring.
We will add a new article to the 55 Fun Things to Do With Google series once every few days until the series is complete. The series is adapted from an original book by Philipp Lenssen.
Googling Proverbs
The German author Benjamin Von Stuckrad-Barre wrote his book 'Was Wir Wissen', translated in English as 'What We Know', as an answer to well known proverbs that are used in everyday life. He used Google to do this. By searching Google for 'Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones', he came accross forums and news articles and listed who this saying referred to from the web page results.
The same approach has been followed for the following proverbs:
Who shouldn't throw stones in a glass house?
- The plywood industries of Indonesia and Malaysia
- People who say Michael is guilty
- Those who tell on people who don't follow a site's Terms of Service
- Russia
- People who call Greeks liars
What conquers all?
- Love
- Labour and perseverance
- Courage
- Truth
- Humour
- Linux
What can't a man live by alone?
- Bread
- Rice
- Imcompetence
- Crimefighting
- Choclolate
- Bagels
- Jaffa Cakes
What's not everyting?
- Money
- Winning the prize or the tournament
- Wikipedia
- Salad
- Ecology
- Speed
- Base salary
- Technological supreriority
What best things in life are free?
- Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8.0
- Computers
- The Chicago Cultural Center's top notch music programming
- Online Black Jack
- A smile
- Seattle
Who let the dogs out?
- 49ers
- Karl, Bob and Paulie
- Rumsfeld
- FOX
- Karl Rove
- Nintendo
What is the new black?
- Lurid pink
- Keylogging
- Green Teat
- Fluffy
- Gray, or fuschsia, or red
- Caucasian
- UNPOP
- Benjamin
- Simplicity
- BeOSmodule
- Scrolling
- Blacker
- Polygamy
- Apathy
- Pacifism
- Downshifting
What shouldn't you throw out with the bathwater?
- Musicians
- The crown
- The pervert
- The BabyCenter.com
- The leak
- The monitor
- The culture
- The dressed up chihuahua
- The concept of rural
- The artistic effort
- The Furbies
- The appraisal
- God
- Soap
- Pearls
- The fluoride






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