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Duck test: A humorous abductive reasoning test based on the activities of a duck. English as She Is Spoke: A 19th century Portuguese-English phrasebook that became legendary for its overtly literal and inaccurate translations. Engrish: Attempts by East Asian people – especially the Japanese – to construct English words and phrases.
The American technology company Google has added Easter eggs into many of its products and services, such as Google Search, YouTube, and Android since the 2000's. [1] [2] Easter eggs are hidden features or messages that not many people know about, inside jokes, and cultural references inserted into media.
Google Answers' predecessor was Google Questions and Answers, which was launched in June 2001. This service involved Google staffers answering questions by e-mail for a flat fee (US$3.00). It was fully functional for about 24 hours, after which it was shut down, possibly due to excessive demand and the tough competition that Yahoo! set in place.
Google Docs is an online word processor included as part of the free, web-based Google Docs Editors suite offered by Google, which also includes Google Sheets, Google Slides, Google Drawings, Google Forms, Google Sites and Google Keep. Google Docs is accessible via an internet browser as a web-based application and is also available as a mobile ...
Occam's razor. In philosophy, Occam's razor (also spelled Ockham's razor or Ocham's razor; Latin: novacula Occami) is the problem-solving principle that recommends searching for explanations constructed with the smallest possible set of elements. It is also known as the principle of parsimony or the law of parsimony ( Latin: lex parsimoniae ).
Time to Hello World. "Time to hello world" (TTHW) is the time it takes to author a "Hello, World!" program in a given programming language. This is one measure of a programming language's ease of use; since the program is meant as an introduction for people unfamiliar with the language, a more complex "Hello, World!"
Google Questions and Answers ( Google Otvety, Google Ответы) was a free knowledge market offered by Google that allowed users to collaboratively find good answers, through the web, to their questions (also referred as Google Knowledge Search). It was launched on June 28, 2007 and replaces the fee-based Google Answers service, discontinued ...
Sundar Pichai. Pichai Sundararajan (born June 10, 1972 [3] [4] [5] ), better known as Sundar Pichai ( / ˈsʊndɑːr pɪˈtʃaɪ / ), is an Indian-born American business executive. [6] [7] He is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google. [8] Pichai began his career as a materials engineer.