A collection of strange links on Google.com

Although Google is a search engine, they are also a website. They, themselves, have millions of pages indexed, some are to services they provide and others are to random things on Google. I was digging around Google and I ended up finding at lot of random things, so I decided to compile a list of strange Google links. Enjoy!

If you ever wondered all the misspellings of Britney Spears and their volume, you must check this out. http://www.google.com/jobs/britney.html

These two links are to fun Google games. The first is on Easter and the second is about Valentines Day. http://www.google.com/Easter/feature_easter.html http://www.google.com/heart/heart01.html

Everything works on this page, but it seems like the text has been converted to some sort of hacker text. http://www.google.com/intl/xx-hacker/

The MentalPlex search does not require you to type a query to conduct a search, instead it anticipates your request by evaluating over 1.3 billion variables. http://www.google.com/mentalplex/

If you are thirsty, you might want to check out the Google Gulp. I hope they come out with this. http://www.google.com/googlegulp/product_line.html

These are registry files for IE. I would have never expected to see them on Google. http://www.google.com/default.reg http://www.google.com/google_rsearch.reg

This page is a tribute to Google moms. Can you guess which Googler belongs to which mom? http://www.google.com/moms/

I think this page has something to do with the "I am feeling lucky" button. http://www.google.com/lucky.html

This page looks like a search interface for a cell phone or some sort of portable device. http://www.google.com/mozilla/google.xul2

Google currently does not have an online file backup application that I know about, but this page references it. http://www.google.com/ig/currentcomm/currentlinksmodule.html

These pages reference customizable Google homepages for partner companies. http://www.google.com/ig/dell http://www.google.com/ig/gateway

I am not sure what this page is about, but it might have something to do with IE. http://www.google.com/ie_rsearch.html

It is interesting to see the number of elements pages usually have. http://code.google.com/webstats/2005-12/pages.html

This is a custom page for the Amgen Tour of California with live updates. http://www.google.com/tofc/

Translate text from one language to another. http://www.google.com/translate_t

This page shows that Google has 3 billion documents indexed that you can search. Their current number of indexed documents is probably a lot larger. http://www.google.com/3.html

These are Google logos that were made by Google fans. http://www.google.com/intl/en/customlogos.html

This looks like another page that might be related to IE. http://www.google.com/ie

It seems like Google has coding contest with a good pay out. http://www.google.com/codejam/

The Librarian Center is a page that talks about how Google and librarians have the same goal of organizing information in a more useful and universal fashion. http://www.google.com/librariancenter/

Dream India is a page that discusses Arvind Jain's life, Googler that managers Google?��Ǩ�Ѣs R&D team in Bangalore. http://www.google.com/rec/dreamindia/

Google Copernicus Center is a lunar hosting and research center opening in 2007. http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html

Google tells you that you can block bots in your robots.txt file. This document shows what Google blocks off. http://www.google.com/robots.txt

Scott Adams created some doodles of Dilbert and Google. http://www.google.com/dilbert.html

These 5 links are to topic specific Google search engines. You can search just on Mac, Microsoft or even Linux stuff.
http://www.google.com/linux
http://www.google.com/bsd
http://www.google.com/ig/usgov
http://www.google.com/microsoft
http://www.google.com/mac.html

Meet some Googlers and check out their profiles. http://www.google.com/jobs/meet.html

If you have seen any other strange or interesting Google links, feel free to leave a comment with the link.

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Joe Anderson, July 24, 2006

Don't forget this one

Neil Patel, July 24, 2006

Thanks Joe!

Cristian Mezei, July 25, 2006

Hey Neil,

Just curious, how did you found all those addresses ? :)

Chris, July 25, 2006

The IE pages are used in the IE browser. If you load IE and click search, supposing Google is set as your search, it will load a sidebar with that exact google search page.

PreZ, July 25, 2006

The britney spears page was interesting

Neil Patel, July 25, 2006

I found most of these by doing a site:google.com search on Google.

XINERGY, July 25, 2006

What a great collection! Thanks for sharing these. As if I needed more distractions today. Ha! =)

XINERGY

Dewinant, July 25, 2006

Some other cool languages: Bork Elmer Pig Latin

Jeremy, July 25, 2006

Check out that long tail on "britney spears"!

Man, that's hot.

Torben, July 25, 2006

PDA frindly http://google.com/pda

bob, July 25, 2006

The link to the "online backup" is more interesting then you might think. That is all stuff that current communications offer's. I have them as my ISP, and those links goto there site. it is Broadband over powerlines... interesting

Razvan, July 25, 2006

http://www.google.com/mozilla/google.xul2

That one is for mozilla sidebar ;)

Nebur, July 25, 2006

http://theattacktothemoncadagarrison.blogspot.com/

http://terrorismagainstcuba.blogspot.com/

http://cubaanimportantcountry.blogspot.com/

http://thelasttruth.blogspot.com/

joe, July 25, 2006

http://elgoog.rb-hosting.de/index.cgi

not a google link but funny nonetheless

Tarneeb, July 25, 2006

There is this page also that Google put on 9/11.... http://www.google.com/msg.html

Harry, July 25, 2006

Is everyone aware that Google Translate also serves as a handy Net-Nanny bypass? If your Company/School restricts where you can browse to, just translate the blocked page from english to english and bingo there you go. Nobody blocks google...

Neil Patel, July 25, 2006

Harry, I never knew that. Thanks for the info.

Greg, July 25, 2006

Great post! This makes Google fun again!

Shammie Jayaransie, July 26, 2006

Greate collection!!!

Ivan Minic, July 26, 2006

Cool collection mate! :)

RevLee, July 26, 2006

Try going to the Google Moon map and then zoom all the way in. Very amusing.

Chicago Golf God, July 26, 2006

WOW, I never knew they had such a funny sense of humor...the klingon search takes the cake!

Rahul, July 26, 2006

Razvan is correct. that XUL thing is for some Mozilla/FireFox extension. And by the looks of it, it is for the FF sidebar. BTW, if you have these browsers, you can save that page with a .xul extension and directly load it into the browser.

guy, July 26, 2006