{"id":160474,"date":"2016-04-12T14:56:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T12:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=160474"},"modified":"2016-04-12T14:58:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T12:58:30","slug":"5-awesome-google-features-you-arent-using","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/160474-5-awesome-google-features-you-arent-using.html","title":{"rendered":"5 awesome Google features you aren’t using"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google is known for its search engine, with information on any topic only a few keystrokes and clicks away.<\/p>\n

But many users are not aware that it does more than answer questions like: “What happens if I put metal in the microwave?”<\/p>\n

The company has built many cool features into its search engine, as detailed by a Quora thread on the topic<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The list below details five cool Google features available to users, and one bonus game feature.<\/p>\n

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Timer<\/h3>\n

Type “timer” and the amount of time you want to count down from into the Google search bar, and you have an in-browser clock ticking away.<\/p>\n

\"Google<\/a><\/p>\n

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Build with Chrome<\/h3>\n

Build with Chrome<\/strong><\/a> lets you “build something awesome” out of\u00a0Lego in your browser.<\/p>\n

\"Lego<\/a><\/p>\n

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Number Speaker<\/h3>\n

Take a number you are unsure how to pronounce, and type it into Google followed by “=english”. This gives you the written version of the number.<\/p>\n

\"Google<\/a><\/p>\n

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Google Sky<\/h3>\n

Type “www.google.com\/sky” into your address bar to navigate\u00a0the universe in your browser.<\/p>\n

You can also type in “\/moon”, or “\/mars” to see our moon and the Red Planet in detail.<\/p>\n

\"Google<\/a><\/p>\n

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Find web fonts<\/h3>\n

Type “www.google.com\/fonts” to see what various fonts look like on the web. You can adjust the text written, thickness, slant, and width to find the font you like.<\/p>\n

\"Google<\/a><\/p>\n

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Bonus Feature – Atari Breakout<\/h3>\n

Google Image search “Atari Breakout”, and play an in-browser game.<\/p>\n

\"Atari<\/a><\/p>\n

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More on Google<\/h3>\n

Google VR view unveiled<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is what dominated South African Google searches in March<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are 5 great Google features that many users are not taking advantage of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":82283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[167,35],"class_list":["post-160474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","category-software","tag-google","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160602,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160474\/revisions\/160602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}