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Would you like to play a game? That is the question that was found when a sleuthing visitor searched the phrase "text adventure" in Google while the browser"s developer tools were open. The text adventure game from Google can be found inside the Google Chrome browser. It also works on Firefox, and Microsoft Edge browser. It looks like Apple’s Safari browser does not support this. So how can you find the Google text adventure game? How to play Google"s hidden text adventure game. Playing the game is fairly easy. Simply use the commands "north, south, east, west, up, down, grab, why, inventory, use, help, exits, map, and friends" to navigate the map, pick up and use objects, and solve puzzles. During the game you will need to navigate a Google campus and find your missing friends by solving puzzles. Once you find all your letter friends, and complete the word Google, the game will be completed. To play the hidden adventure game in Google, simply follow these...

Google’s 20th birthday  was earlier this month, now it"s celebrating its birthday. Google is marking its 20th anniversary with a special doodle which is sure to evoke nostalgia. The new doodle can be viewed by visiting Google from desktops, mobiles or on the company’s YouTube channel. It starts off by playing the reminiscent old tune of a dial-up internet connection being established and the old Google webpage from the time when the company was named “Google!” The short clip takes the users on a short journey of the most notable search terms of recent times like what will happen on Y2K?, is Pluto still a planet?, 2012 on the Mayan calendar, and more. In keeping with the “popular searches in history” theme, the company has also launched 20years.withgoogle.com , a website dedicated to notable facts from the last 20 years of search trends. Examples: Heath Ledger was the most-searched actor in 2008 (the year of his death), Neymar has been the most-s...

One of the more common and powerful tools marketing experts use to market businesses online is a paid search campaign. While the potential to drastically increase profits is there, it’s also possible to lose a lot of money. Once a business owner decides they want to get deeper into digital marketing, a common question is: should you bring your Paid Search in-house ? To make this important decision, it’s important for website owners to know what PPC is, and how easy it is to lose money when using one of these types of tools. Learn more about additional ways to eliminate wasted spend and save money on your PPC Campaigns below. What Is Pay Per Click (PPC) Marketing? PPC marketing is a focused type of advertising that is found on Google or Bing search results. It gets its name from the fact that the client only pays when someone clicks on their ad. Some common terms used when speaking about PPC include: Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Cost Per Click (CPC) Return on Ad Spend (...

This week, search engine giant Google announced a new search engine for the scientific community that will help them make search millions of datasets present online. The service which is called Dataset Search, it trawls the millions of open data repositories on the web for desired datasets. It looks on publisher sites, digital libraries, and on author’s personal web pages, among other places. But it relies on dataset publishers to correctly label their datasets with the appropriate information, or metadata tags, as their otherwise known. The information gotten will aid scientists, data journalists and geeks find the data required for their work and their stories — or simply to satisfy their intellectual curiosity. The new search engine will work like Google Scholar, the company’s popular search engine for academic studies and reports. Natasha Noy, Research Scientist, Google AI, said in a blog post . “Dataset Search lets you find datasets wherever they’re h...

Over the years, Google has continually improved how search results are shown with things like cards for important figures and businesses, highlights, sports data, and lot more. Now as announced in a blog post the tech giants Google ,  is updating the way it displays table data in search results, which should make it easier to find the information you"re specifically looking for. The idea is to make it easier to discover the data that a lot of these organisations produce and then surface it in an easy to read format on the company’s search results pages. The company is currently working with a few news organisations, like ProPublica , to produce the structured data in the format it needs for its search index. As long as that data is in a table, adding it to the index should be straightforward. Google News Lab’s Simon Rogers wrote in today’s blog post. “Data journalism takes many forms, and it’s not always clear from the headline that there is potential...

With summer in full swing, Google is making it easier for Android users to schedule their events in the calendar, as well as find them in Search. After adding new ways for users to look for events close to them last year —Google is now bringing new features meant to offer personal recommendations and info about interesting events. Today Google has announced that it is adding a few more features to Search thats making finding events even easier . The search feature which will trigger the new event interface will show information like time, location, and ticketing providers in a convenient and easily parsed format. Links to further purchase tickets for events, save them to your own personal list, or share them with your friends are also included. For example, searching for “events near me” or “free concert” around you will bring up a list of events from various sites, along with details about the event. Both will be displayed in the Search window, but if you ...

Figuring out which college you should go to is a stressful task, but Google is rolling out some new search features today that will make your search a little bit much easier. The Google college search features will give you fast access to the necessary information you need to plan your higher education. Announced today in a blog post , Google has introduced a new type of Knowledge Graph card in search results, which will appear when users search for colleges. The college search features give you a concise look at four-year colleges across the U.S. With only one search query, you can see basic information like the school’s location and website, as well as more in-depth stats like the average cost of tuition after aid, the graduation rate, and the admission rate. If you click the “More about cost, outcomes, and students” link, you’re taken to a more in-depth page with incredible amounts of information on the college experience at that particular school. You can eve...

Just like any other aspect of ever-changing and shifting trends of digital online media marketing, the biggest online search engine Google also changes its search engine algorithm. Although it changes around 500-600 times a year, mostly these updates are minor. However, Google sporadically presents significant algorithm update once or twice every year that affects the organic search engine results in a major way. For any digital media marketer, knowing about these updates is crucial, and they have to prepare for it in advance. These updates can affect organic rankings, which further influences organic website traffic, reaches, impressions, conversions and ultimately sales. Knowing the dates of these Google updates can immensely help a marketer to enhance their organic rankings by improving search engine optimization of their websites. So it is important to have a dedicated lead and research department that know all about the Google algorithm updates. Google has a very long history of r...

Google Go comes to Nigeria and 29 other African countries. The internet can be achingly slow and expensive in parts of Africa, undermining fledgling tech ecosystems and the ability of Africans to connect globally. Google, the largest search engine company is giving users a faster and lighter way to search and access the internet, by releasing an app that will make it lighter to browse online, with search results optimised to save up to 40% data. The Google Go app will available in 26 sub-Saharan Africa nations and  is customised to function on Android devices with low storage and will load on slow and unstable connections including 2G networks. At five megabits in size, the app will allow for voice recognition in search instead of typing, while easily switching between languages including Swahili. Speaking at the launch in Ikoyi, Lagos, Google’s Country Director, Nigeria, Juliet Ehimuan-Chiazor, revealed that: “There are about 30 million smartphone users and the number ...