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Updated March 2006, version 0.7
       
Ok, this section may result completely irrelevant, but it is great fun nevertheless... I'm confident that each seeker has encountered some of these 'weird' search engines. And maybe it's nice to have a place where to "dump" them. This will demonstrate -again- that the web is really deep (and really weird).

GREEK PI
    
BIBLE PASSAGES
FIND A GRAVE
    
WEATHER LONG AGO
FIND A LYRIC
    
COMICS
Interesting authors
    
Any phone number
Chessgames
    
Programming code
Chocolate
    







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Funny and weird search engines 


"GREEK PI" SEARCH ENGINE


There's even a search engine for GREEK PI "number sequences" engine (more than 200 million digits)... try searching for your birthday... mine is at position 24.230.405, counting from the first digit after the decimal point (the 3. is not counted).


"BIBLE PASSAGES" SEARCH ENGINE


Try "Psalm 47" or "John 2:16" or try again "Psalm 47" after having chosen "Biblia en Lenguaje Sencillo"



"FIND A GRAVE" SEARCH ENGINE


A tag americanocentric and a tag crap, but hey! You can snoop around cemeteries! Try president, prostitute or poet...

 
  
Enter name and/or bio keyword(s)...


"WEATHER LONG AGO" SEARCH ENGINE



What if I want to know how was the weather, say, three years ago in some place?
-"Tell me about the 3 December 1998, for instance... was it cold in Berlin?"

Easy: Never underestimate the awesome MIGHT of the web: T'was pretty cold indeed: -7 ~ -4 Celsius...
http://www.weatherunderground.com/history/airport/EDDI/1998/12/3/DailyHistory.html

Note how the query is composed:
http://www.weatherunderground.com/history/airport/EDDI/1998/12/3/DailyHistory.html
"EDDI" is here the ICAO code for Tempelhof, the city airport in berlin... should you want, instead, the weather for Paris (Orly) you would use LFPO, for Brussels, you would use EBBR and so on.
You will find all possible (ICAO) airport codes here...

Here the "weather long ago" search mask:
(KCQT is Losangeles downtown... change with a different three (IATA) or four (ICAO) letters airport code)




"LYRICS" SEARCH ENGINE


  Artist Song Lyric  
www.searchlyrics.org




"COMICS" SEARCH ENGINE

http://www.ohnorobot.com/

Search for:  Advanced search
( searching 7893 comics in 125 series! )




Interesting authors

http://www.literature-map.com/
Example: http://www.literature-map.com/hammett.html

Name of the author:


Holy banana: from doyle to canetti in just two steps!





Chessgames

http://www.chessgames.com/index.html
Example: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=11207 (11207 is Botvinnik, Morphy is 16002)
You can of course simply search http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ezsearch.pl?search=morphy

Enter search. E.g., "FISCHER VS SPASSKY"  


And all the games are there as well, for you to peruse :-)



Programming code

http://www.koders.com/
Example: http://www.koders.com/?s=sniffer

 
Languages:
Licenses:  

Code galore



Chocolate

http://chocolocate.com/
Example: http://chocolocate.com/country.php/Switzerland/


Cocoa butter melts at around 37C, which is human body temperature, duh. That's why real chocolate melts in the mouth, while the crap they often sell "as chocolate" (imitations made with tropical oils and no or few cocoa butter) does not. 









							 
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