From Ionut Chitu:
1. If you want to know if a person is a man or a woman and the name doesn't help, do a search for the name.Posted by dcoates at November 01, 2006 11:42 AM
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3. A better search for Flickr. Google uses information from other sites that link to Flickr photos, so you may find Google search better.
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7. Type the name of a painter and you can take an art class.
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9. Find the color of a word. "Word Color is a windows program that uses Google Image Search to determine the color of a word or string of words. It goes out there, retrieves the top 9 images and loops through all pixels, calculating the average hue, which is later converted to a color."