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OK, so maybe I’m a bit slow (many of you have probably already figured this one out), but I still think this is cool.

A few weeks ago I was typing search text (actually a part number followed by a manufacturer) into the search bar in Firefox and I noticed that as I typed the auto-suggest was subtracting the numbers on either side of the hyphen in the part number before I had input the manufacturer. After I’d finished with my search, I decided to look into this further. Sure enough, if you typed in formulas, added conversions or input special operators, the Firefox search bar and Google were returning the results – without actually submitting it!

Now call me crazy, but I think this is pretty sweet! I don’t have to waste all that time hitting enter or clicking the search button and waiting for the page to load (OK, so I’m lazy :). All I’ve got to do is punch in the formulas I want and I automagically get results back!

Of course, this got me to wondering what else is going on behind the scenes in my favorite browser. Then I thought better of it. That’s the kind of thing that could keep you up at night…

Link to Nancy Blachman’s Google Calculator (Cheat Sheet)

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