Brian White

Inside Google, we email queries around a lot. An example might be

Hey Brian, check out “mexican food in Dublin”

Now, does the person who sent that to me want me to search in quotes, or without? When we email queries around, we use brackets ([]) to represent the search box:

[mexican food in dublin]

If I want the quotes,

["mexican food in Dublin"]

Saves an email back, “did you want me to put that in quotes or not?”

While we’re on the topic, this will probably help me:

["* mexican food in dublin" +ireland]

Looks like I’ll be taking the DART out to Howth…

The Onion killed off Herbert!

Yahoo ad spotted in center field at AT&T Park in San Francisco:

Matt’s super-fast cat, Ozzie, needed some LOLcat love, so I fired up Gimp and cranked this out. Enjoy

Update: Matt pointed me to the addictive LolCat generator. Much more professional with the stroke effect!

(We’ll cap the search engine in-jokes at two).