16 March 2015

Google Feud: Guess Google's Suggestions



Google's suggestions are sometimes surprising, weird, funny. Google tries to guess what you are about to type and uses other people's searches to autocomplete your query. "Apart from the Google+ profiles that may appear, all of the predictions that are shown in the drop-down list have been typed before by Google users or appear on the web," informs Google.



Have you ever tried to anticipate Google's suggestions? Google Feud is a simple game based on Family Feud that shows the first part of a query and asks you to guess how Google autocompletes it. "Google Feud is a web game based on the Google API. We select the questions, then the results are pulled directly from Google's autocomplete," informs the site, which is not affiliated with Google.



Google Feud uses the top 10 suggestions for a query. You can get more points if you guess a suggestion that is more popular and you can only make 3 mistakes. There are 4 categories of queries: culture, people, names, questions.









{ via Techcrunch }

YouTube Global Search



For some reason, when you search YouTube for [site:youtube.com], you're actually requesting a list of all the YouTube videos, playlists and channels. If you combine this query with YouTube's filters, you can obtain a lot of interesting results:



1. Most viewed videos of all time. Use these filters from the dropdown: type:video, sort by: view count.






To add a filter, click the Filters dropdown and select one of the filters from the 5 columns. You can add multiple filters, but you can only pick a single filter from a column. To remove a filter, click the "x" next to the filter. There's also an option that lets you "clear all filters".






2. Most viewed videos uploaded in the past 30 days. Use these filters: type:video, upload date: this month, sort by: view count.



3. Most viewed videos uploaded in the past 12 months. Use these filters: type:video, upload date: this year, sort by: view count.



4. Most viewed videos uploaded in the past 24 hours. Use these filters: type:video, upload date: today, sort by: view count.



5. Most viewed HD videos of all time. Use these filters: type:video, features: HD, sort by: view count.



6. Most viewed 4K videos of all time. Use these filters: type:video, features: 4K, sort by: view count.



7. Most viewed 3D videos of all time. Use these filters: type:video, features: 3D, sort by: view count.



8. Most viewed playlist. Use these filters: type:playlist, sort by: view count.



9. Random videos with no dislikes. Enable these filters: type:video, sort by: rating.



10. Random popular videos. Enable these filters: type:video, sort by: relevance.