A new way to waste time on the internet: Google now makes animal noises [View all]

[steve2470]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/04/04/a-new-way-to-waste-time-online-google-now-makes-animal-noises/

Google describes its mission as a company to "organise the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful". That now apparently extends to making animal noises.

Searching for "what noise does a [animal] make" and you will now get results featuring a short audio sample of the animal in question, ranging from your standard farmyard animals to the more exotic bowhead whale and elephant. Alternatively, try searching "animal noises" for one of the sounds at random.

It might be intended as an educational tool for children, but is possibly more likely to just be a way to waste time at work.

The selection of animals is fairly limited, with the range limited to 19 that we were able to find, but that's still enough to spend at least 90 seconds of your time. The zebra and (rather disgruntled) cat noises are particular highlights. Google also uploaded a turtle sound, but searching for it does not appear to work.