Dr. Mercola February 23 2008 47,091 views
You may have mastered some of the basic tricks of Google, but most people use only about 3 percent of this search engine’s available power.There are lots of Google search guides that detail the more common tips, but this site has compiled a long list of truly interesting and useful Google Map searches.
Some of these are really amazing, and remind me why Google has been my favorite search engine for nearly a decade!
Do you want to find a WiFi hotspot? Track world terrorism? Calculate Canadian taxi fare? Explore any location on earth?
Those are just a few of the many, many things you can do with Google Maps mashups! Click the link below for a list of 100 possibilities ... although there are many more.
To learn more about how to use more of the seemingly endless features of Google, try this online Google tutorial. You can spend anywhere from one-half to eight hours looking through it depending on how many sections you elect to skip, and how many of the examples and problems you work through. But you’re sure to learn some new way to use Google that you didn’t know was there before.
what do you mean by that?
I went to my street, found my house, or at least what it must have looked at least four and a half years to five years ago!
How do I know? The farm ute is in the back yard, my long-gone Corolla in the driveway, pineapples on the land next door are ready for harvest, while a patch has just been ploughed, and it is before the pool umbrella was installed! What a nostalgic peep back in time!
Well- the farm is now planted with houses, my home is now a different shape as I am rebuilding, and I now have my health! I wonder how long it will be till it is updated? i wish I could get a copy of my little patch of dirt!!!
Now, cos this is a wellness site I'd better mention that at the time this bit of Australia was photographed, I was so ill- 3x- heavy-duty BP meds, Diabetes Type 2 tablets for 8 years, Lipitor for the dread cholestrol, Vioxx and paracetamol for arthritic pain (ouch!) and always with Ventolin Asthma puffers everywhere I went. And I could no longer go for walks along the beloved Pineapple tracks, as are visible in the Google shot.
After radical dietary changes with brilliant nutritional supplements all that has changed!
It was Dr Mercola's articles that alerted me to the dangers of Vioxx (I had 2 heart events) and as I improved, I was able to wean off them and all the other symptoms faded (whew!). I am no longer being a good little diabetic on diet stuff either, thanks to the Doc! In fact my Doctor said he could not guess from the blood tests and other results that I had ever been a diabetic!
So it just goes to show that when you give your body what it needs and stop giving it what it doesn't, that it can respond and get on with healing itself!
I am so glad I am not locked in that time-zone still.
Like I said though, Mr Google, I still wish I could print it out!
Oh wonderful...more "things to do" to keep your mind "eng(caged)! Just be aware that currently, Google is cooperating with the Chinese government in a BIG way, to censor it's citizenry's Internet information access:
just a hint: www.rense.com/general69/intercens.html
Is there any way to opt out? I can see some real downsides in the case of people being stalked, child molesters looking for targets, etc.