Tools For Thought - Intelegia

Users of Google Docs and Spreadsheets should be aware of GoogleLookup.

GoogleLookup is a function that allows individuals to launch a search on the web regarding information about people, places and things. For example, entering =GoogleLookup(”Canada”; “internet users”) in a cell will produce the number of internet users in Canada. By replacing Canada with others countries such as Mexico and United States creates a spreadsheet as seen below.

For the purposes of creating this spreadsheet, Google selected to pull the data from the CIA’s World Factbook.