Every now and then my mom encounters a computer error that she cannot resolve. By the time she calls or sends a text she has done everything in her knowledge base to fix an issue. I gave her a moratorium during my moves that she must start using the F1 key, click on the question marks, or do a Google search to resolve her technology issues.
So today she encountered an error that displayed Error 15 (net::ERR_SOCKET_NOT_CONNECTED): Unknown error.
A Google Search for this error message produces about 2,180 results. Sometimes clearing the cache and cookies resolves some basic connectivity issues but for this particular error she encountered, this response was helpful. Closing the idle sockets resolved her errors.
If you are using Chrome and come across a site you normally access and receive an unknown error message, check out the Net Internals Test function and see the test results.
The "chrome://net-internals/" webpage is a special URL in chromium that dumps a view of the network stack's internal state. This data can be helpful when debugging performance or connectivity problems. It includes information on request performance, proxy settings, and DNS cache.
Google search features are used for more than searching for the answers you are looking for and during Valentine's Day all types of things flow your social stream.
Heart hacks or graphing cardioids are popular and Google Students showed some love to math lovers http://googleforstudents.blogspot.com/2011/12/showing-some-love-to-math-lovers.html and shared this: (sqrt(cos(x))*cos(200x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.7)*(4-x*x)^0.01, sqrt(9-x^2), -sqrt(9-x^2) from -4.5 to 4.5 (copy and paste into Google search box or Wolfram if you are a member), then some one started sharing this: sqrt(1-(abs(x)-1)^2), arccos(1-abs(x))-π
Graph for sqrt(1-(abs(x)-1)^2), arccos(1-abs(x))-π produces this version:
Keep tinkering and demonstrating that Geeks are cool!
So what else do you use Google Search for with so many options available?
Various categories of popular features range from Everyday Essentials, Reference Tools, Choosing Keywords, Local Search, Health Search, Trip Planning, Query Refinements, and Search by Numbers ...What is your favorite?
Synonym Search - If you want to search not only for your search term but also for its synonyms, place the tilde sign (~) immediately in front of your search term.
Currency Conversion - To use our built-in currency converter, enter the conversion you’d like done into the Google search box and your answer will display directly on the results page.
Fill in the Blank - Sometimes the best way to ask a question is to get Google to ‘fill in the blank’ by adding an asterisk (*) at the part of the sentence or question that you want finished into the Google search box.
Related Search - To search for web pages that have similar content to a given site, type “related:” followed by the website address into the Google search box.
As always, comments, recommendations +1s, and reaction check boxes are always appreciated.
