{"id":1839,"date":"2003-12-16T10:31:01","date_gmt":"2003-12-16T14:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/12\/16\/google-adds-features\/"},"modified":"2003-12-16T10:31:01","modified_gmt":"2003-12-16T14:31:01","slug":"google-adds-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/12\/16\/google-adds-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Adds Features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2049'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/bgoogle.jpg\" width=\"136\" height=\"136\" align=\"left\">Always<br \/>\n          looking for new ways to organize and retrieve information, Google has<br \/>\n          forced me to rewrite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mfeldman\/Google\">&quot;10<br \/>\n          Things I Bet You Never Knew about Google&quot;<\/a>.<br \/>\n          I guess I&#8217;ll wait for one more good one and upgrade to &quot;A Dozen Things&#8230;.&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">Google<br \/>\n            has released a new feature called Search by Number for users to find<br \/>\n            information related to parcel tracking IDs, patents, and<br \/>\n                other specialized<br \/>\n          numbers. For example, typing &quot;fedex&quot; followed by a space and a FedEx<br \/>\n          tracking number will return the latest information on a package.<\/p>\n<p>        Search by Number offerings include:<\/font><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\">\tUPS tracking numbers example search: [1Z9999W999999999]<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\">\tFedEx tracking numbers example search: [fedex<br \/>\n            999999999999]<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\">Patent numbers example search: [patent 5123123]<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\">FAA airplane registration numbers (usually<br \/>\n            found on tail): [n199ua]<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font color=\"#000000\">FCC equipment IDs example search: [fcc B4Z-34009-PIR]\n<p>          Google by Number is available now on Google.com to all English language<br \/>\n                        users throughout the world. International versions will<br \/>\n                  be made available in the coming<br \/>\n              months. More information can be found here: <\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/help\/features.html#number.\">http:\/\/www.google.com\/help\/features.html#number.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <\/font><font color=\"#000000\"> The company seeks suggestions for other types<br \/>\n        of numbers to search.<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infotoday.com\/newsbreaks\/wnd031215.shtml\">InfoToday<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always looking for new ways to organize and retrieve information, Google has forced me to rewrite &quot;10 Things I Bet You Never Knew about Google&quot;. I guess I&#8217;ll wait for one more good one and upgrade to &quot;A Dozen Things&#8230;.&quot; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/12\/16\/google-adds-features\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}