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Robert Scoble
I love that on Google you can ask it what time it is in some part of the world (like London) and it answers. More here:
Here's the result for "what time is it in London?" http://www.google.com/search... What other questions can you ask Google and it will answer? - Robert Scoble
Bing also supports that these days; http://www.bing.com/search... - Menno te Koppele
Menno: I know, I checked, but I like the formatting Google does much better. - Robert Scoble
Welcome to my home town Robert! - Jim Connolly
Maths questions :) - Simon Wicks from iPhone
I usually use it for conversion between US measurements and metric/grams and all that. Also good for temp celsius to fahrenheit. My wife brought a couple of American Cookbooks over so I need to translate sometimes. - Ras - Dago-Baadass! of FF
Oh yeah simple calculation questions are good also - Ras - Dago-Baadass! of FF
and other such conversions... - Kamath (नमः)
Thats pretty cool, I always knew you could ask Google math questions - David Hintze
I like the currency and other conversion ( http://www.google.com/search... ) - Mihai Secasiu
How many tablespoons in one cup? (16 in case your wondering). Great for halving recipes (or doubling them). - Joe Luft
Mathematics, like: how much is 2+2? http://www.google.co.il/search... - Nir Ben Yona
and of course the big question: http://www.google.com/search... - Mihai Secasiu
Conversions - Paul Rawlings from iPhone
Yes Nir... I'm a bit simple .-P - Ras - Dago-Baadass! of FF
Robert: I agree with you on formatting, but hey at least Bing has it these days. That's a step in the right direction - Menno te Koppele
You can ask it the answer to life, the universe, and everything: http://www.google.com/search... - Jesse Stay
42! Look, I beat Google! - Jim Connolly
You can ask about the date of birth, like: how old is Michael Jordan? http://www.google.co.il/search... - Nir Ben Yona
I constantly use google for math and conversions - Neil Bernhart
Height of people, http://www.google.com/#hl=en... and Adriana Lima's bust size http://www.google.com/#hl=en... - Burcu Dogan
Seems not to work for smaller towns (e.g. Fort Totten, ND) - bing doesn't either, but wolframalpha answers. - Matthew McCowan
Bruce :-) Google not first mistake its just 84cm http://www.jurgita.com/models-... have a great wknd - Johni Fisher
Robert, Bing does this as well. http://cliq.cc/IqIdk - Darren
Have used this feature many times and Google has never let me down. - ashish
exchange rates? "how much is 1 eur in usd" - aurelian
No need to be so verbose. "time in london" and "10 usd in sek" suffices. - Oskar Lissheim-Boethius
They still can't answer "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?" alas - Justin DeMerchant