Google Definition and 254 Threads

HI pf! I have a mac OSX and am running the latest google chrome browser, though I cannot view pdfs. Every time I click a link that would send me to a pdf I am sent to a blank grey webpage. Any help?

Hi all, Cam google web search accepet regular expressions? Especially, I need to search strings with any number between two words, for example: "vehicle runs at XXX km/h". Thank you

How many pages can you read for free on a book that's on googlebooks? I mean how do they determine this, is it like a certain percentage of the book, then you have to buy it? How does it work? thanks

Can someone recommend a good source for me to order some of that VR cardboard for the smartphones? It doesn't have to be fancy, probably the cheaper the better. But all the websites I find that sell it seem kind of dodgy, and most get bad reviews. Everything's coming from China and takes...

Does anyone have any idea of participating in Google science fair 2016? Is anyone interested?

Dear PF Forum, Anybody knows how to remove the star? I forgot when I unintentionally put that star, now I want to remove it. But I can't. Some websites suggest by inserting some HTML (or Java script? Can't tell the difference) script. Is there an easy way withouth signing off google? Thanks...

Do we need a keyboard for that.There are apps. Or can we write some code or latex? Or does whatsapp or google having so many developers even accept mathematical symbols like the θ sign or ∫ sign?

Does anybody know of a way that I can protect a Google Sheet in such a way that it can only be edited via scripts? Ultimately I'm putting something together that acts as a very poor man's ticketing system. I have information displayed in a sheet and a set of buttons with scripts attached to...

Hey there guys, I'm an electronics engineer who just finished the course. I'm from India and as we Indians say, we decide what to pursue after doing an engineering degree. I have got job offers from companies such as Deloitte in their consulting division. But recently I joined a startup in the...

the top one from mine is my account on here.

Well well, look at what we have here! https://support.google.com/gmm/answer/6178227?p=insert_coin&hl=en&rd=1 Eat your way through the streets of New York on Google Maps now! The feature is only there for a short time, so I wouldn't recommend that you sit this one out ;) My first score was 4500...

I get most of the solutions of plain text on Google, showing various links or books. But questions having mathematical equation in them are not shown on Google. Is there a way to write latex on Google?

Before I say, I just want to mention that the Danish words for 15 and 18 are femten and atten Atten sounds a bit like the English word "eighteen". So that is where we get our metric prefixes femto- for 10-15 and atto- for 10-18. When you do cosmology the most common quantity, or one of the...

Hi. When I make a search on Google, usually there are more pages in videos search than in web search? This situation bewilders me because, shouldn't web search comprise the video search. This shows that web search doesn't mean everything search in spite of my wrong belief. So what is the...

Dear Computer People, Perhaps most everyone is familiar with google images. There are thumbnail pictures, you click on them and they enlarge. Now when I do this, the whole page jumps to the top every time. Only this last week did this begin. I tried to rejuvenate using the reset to previous...

Google has recently created a challenge to find new employees by having link appear in people's google searches saying "you know our language". This happens for people with large amounts of programming searches in their history. Read all about it...

http://www.integrysgroup.com/ Is its size larger than US google's ?

The aim is partly pedagogical. I want to assemble some examples illustrating how the google calculator can play a role in learning cosmology and related. Suppose you don't remember the Schw. radius of the earth. Paste in "2G*mass of earth/c^2" press return, and you get 0.887 cm...

Hi, When I am in the Google Books I cannot find selecting tool as there is pdf files but there is a hand. But with that hand I cannot copy and paste a phrase. Under what setting I can find selecting tool or there is no selecting tool. Have nice day

Hello, news : http://www.wired.com/2014/09/martinis/ Patrick

Fun watching this project develop. Maybe by 2020 this can be a reality? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csvt6JBAwBk

I'm looking for a native app of Google Scholar on my iPhone. However, I can't find out the best apps.

Hi everyone, :) Recently I came across a thought provoking article in CAIDA. http://www.rumint.org/gregconti/publications/20061101_NSPW_Googling_Conti_Final.pdf

I need some help with this problem. My housemate, a computer-illiterate lady who uses her daughter's old laptop solely to browse the internet, last evening wanted me to help her figure out how to (illegally) stream the Academy Awards Ceremony. I found a link but it wouldn't play on her Google...

I posted this at stackexchange but they deleted it because "don't ask for application recommendations" ?! I use google calendar, but I don't like google. What are some good calendar apps I could run on my lighttpd webserver? Thanks

Do you know any program for downloading Google books?

I like Google glass. What type of engineering major is most appropriate to get to work on similar type of projects? My guess is computer engineering/science, what do you think?

What are some companies that higher Mathematicans? Does Google hire Mathematicians?

Just need someone to check my work. Couldn't find the problem via Google. $f$(W,X,Y,Z) M (0,1,2,7,12,15) + d(3,13). 1)Find the minimum Product of Sums equation using a K-Map. 2)Draw a schematic of a minimized circuit implementing the logic using NOR gates. 1) My Answer: (\bar{w} +...

I just downloaded this software since it is free and can supposedly be used for CAD. Does anyone have experience with this program for basic engineering modeling? Would it be good to have on a resume? I know how to do 3D modeling in AutoCAD to some extend, but it costs a lot of money to obtain a...

Is there any way to manually add a thumbnail to the Google chrome "new tab" tab? I HATE how it won't let you pick which sites you want there, it instead makes the decisions for you. Is there someway to edit the code, perhaps?

Check it out: https://www.google.com/search?q=cubic+cm+to+cubic+m According to my math, 1 cubic centimeter equals 1x10-7 cubic meters not 1x10-6 cubic meters. Is is my calculator broken, or is this why Hubble telescope is near-sighted?

Google's image today is a well known physics subject post here before it disappears... Erwin Schrödinger's 126th birthday cheers Dave

I want to write math symbols along with normal text on my google site. I googled on how to go about doing that. That led me to this page https://sites.google.com/site/gencoreoperative/index/articles-and-hacks/google-s-latex So now what I did was put "Prove that for any natural number <img...

Someone sent a Google Doc link to a number of collaborators (https://docs.google.com/file/etc ). I want to edit it so that everyone can see my input, how should I do it? I've done File>Open with Google Docs, but then it's only in my personal Drive. If I follow the original link again the file...

I have a little problem with Google server to which I send my friends my zipped file of morphological analysis. When I press send button I always have a return message that my file is included with a executable and I can't send it. Thank you.

Wow, a bit scary! http://www.weather.com/sports-rec/weather-ventures/postcards-from-google-earth-20130412

I've two routes in google map: i) A ---> B ii) C ---> D How can I determine if these routes overlap or not?

So i came to know about this GOOGLE SCIENCE FAIR couple of weeks ago and I am thinking about participating in it . I want to do a project related to physics . But i have no idea what they expect me to make . I am sure with my level of physics knowledge there is very less possibility that i will...

Don't know where to put this really .. Just looked at an 1845 map of the area I was raised in and compared it to Google maps. There has been a tremendous amount of change, with industrial works, schools, roads - castles even -disappearing from the landscape and new roads and buildings...

Hi everyone, (Wave) Have you noticed that today's Doodle is about Ada Lovelace. I think it's one of those rare occasions that Google celebrates the anniversary of a mathematician. :) Kind Regards, Sudharaka.

Displaying Mathematics in Google Drive?? Hey, How can I display math written in word with google drives (cloud storge)? I'm trying to create a google drive for my class at university, but we can't view mathematical equations written in word documents with google drive. Would appreciate some...

How do particles moving around a nucleus, planetary and other objects moving around a star, stars.. solar systems and other moving objects moving around a black hole.. and all basically behaving the same in relation to their center nucleus, star, and black hole all get governed by different...

We have many engines to search the literature, such as sciencedirect and so on. And we also have google scholar to search the whole literature. Is it a good idea to use only google scholar since it looks complete enough? What's your opinion?

I've heard before that the process involves determining the eigenvalues of a system of a equation in the form of a matrix but I know very little about what actually goes on and I was hoping somebody could enlighten me.

Best advise: "Don't google". My grand daughter born 8 weeks ago, showed too much weakness in the upper body. She would not move as other babies would. So they tried intensive physiotherapy and exercise and it seems to work out well. Anyway in the first dialogue between the doctor and the...

Dear all, I am facing an annoying problem with Google search and despite spending tens of hours in the net, I can't find the solution. I hope someone can help me out. The problem is that Google search has become is very slow and most of the time it doesn't return results or and remains in a...

So we have been struggling to defeat the google image searcher. This seems to work While we see what it is, google didn't have any idea. I made this with googles Picasa-3. It's very simple with a few clicks, I selected pencil drawing and then some other tricks, changing colors and...

Wasn't sure about where else to post this so I posted it here : I got into an argument with my friend about google search being a DBMS, I disagreed because it doesn't fit the definition that we were given or the one on wikipedia and a few more websites. All that google search does it query a...

It appears that the US government has determined that Google is perhaps too successful, or that in being successful in it's market has abused it's power/influence. U.S. Escalates Google Case by Hiring Noted Outside Lawyer...