How good can you google?

google.com redirects me to google.fr, and it redirects you to google.de I guess, privileging results in our respective languages. so it's a bit pointless.

ah, but I just found out you only have to fill the "What I am googling" box :). and I can go to google.us ;)
 
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Captain Chickenpants said:
What is missing from the search results in 1.2? ........
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it's nano-????

The first and third hit deal with nano technology the second has something to do with Linux.

There's not many clues.

I'm such an idiot, it's the freaking iPod!
 
_xxx_ said:
This is a "reverse search" game of a kind, you get the results and have to find out the search phrase. Try it here.
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Gave up at the tax question


_xxx_ sounds to me like you might enjoy: http://www.thestoneunturned.com/ which a mate of mine set up. I haven't looked at it for ages but, IIRC, solving the puzzles involved being able to do some clever internet searching.
 
Easy up until I couldn't be bothered to think of more misspellings for 'bocelli' (2.4). Edit: Got it on the next try. Gave up on the '35.8114573' puzzle.
 
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Simon F said:
Gave up at the tax question


_xxx_ sounds to me like you might enjoy: http://www.thestoneunturned.com/ which a mate of mine set up. I haven't looked at it for ages but, IIRC, solving the puzzles involved being able to do some clever internet searching.
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Yeah I got stuck on that one.

Before attempting the ones on the Stone Unturned, you should probably do the example ones on http://www.thestone.com as it will give you an idea of the way you have to think on there.

I can vouch for http://www.thestoneunturned.com/TheInstance/3R.Beekeeper.Problem.htm being an excellent puzzle.
:)
 
I finished it all. There are 16 puzzles. The painting one was the hardest for me.

EDIT: Nevermind, there are more!

EDIT: I'm really stuck at 2.6. This is really hard.
 
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Zaphod said:
What? I'd say both the 'tax' and the displayed results are red herrings.
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Pick a segment of text from one of the search results. Then Google for that segment, enclosed in quotes, and use the site:thesearchresult-domain.com as a qualifier.
Then you'll find the full text on that site, including the ?????? and you're done.

I gave up on the Google images thing (1.c or thereabouts).
 
zeckensack said:
Pick a segment of text from one of the search results. Then Google for that segment, enclosed in quotes, and use the site:thesearchresult-domain.com as a qualifier.
Then you'll find the full text on that site, including the ?????? and you're done.
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Not for the tax question. The solution there is a Google operator/keyword and not part of the result.
 
afaik, it's not an operator. The tax one was a series of numbers.

Also, for the paintings, think about impressionist artists, and you'll find who you want. :D
 
K.I.L.E.R said:
I beat it.
Very easy if you type in the phrases in the real Google.
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I only found this to be true for the first few. I had a hard time with the pictures one (finally found it from the impressionism hint here). Now I'm stuck on 1.e, which is a google finance, but I'll be damned if I can find any hint at all (other than the stock price) as to what stock it is.

Edit:
Nevermind, got it. Turns out just searching for the date, incorporated, and NASDAQ did the trick.
 
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