As we’ve reported before, our good friends over at Google are starting up a daily puzzle challenge. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. And much to our enjoyment, they’ve decided to share the puzzles with us at GeekDad (hmm… Google a Day? GD? GeekDad?), so each morning at 12:01am ET you’ll see a new puzzle, and the previous day’s answer (in invisitext) posted here. SPOILER WARNING: As a test, we’re going to leave the comments on so people can work together to find the answer. As such, if you want to figure it out all by yourself, DON’T READ THE COMMENTS! Also, with the knowledge that because others may publish their answers before you do, if you want to be able to search for information without accidentally seeing the answer somewhere, you can use the Google-a-Day site’s search tool, which will automatically filter out published answers, to give you a spoiler-free experience. And now, without further ado, we give you… TODAY’S PUZZLE:

All cephalopod mollusks with three hearts are carnivorous, but only one type living in temperate waters is deadly to humans. What does this deadly cephalopod normally feed on?

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER (HIGHLIGHT TO SEE):

Search [grow 20,000 teeth] to learn it’s a shark. Search [largest shark tooth] to find C. megalodon has the world’s largest teeth among sharks. Thankfully, it’s extinct. Swimming in the ocean would be very different if 52-foot-long sharks with seven-inch teeth still cruised the seas.

Advertising Balloons: Power Marketing

A flash of color floating across the sky. Eyes instinctively dart upwards, following the bright object with interest and wonder. The power of flight coupled with the genius of marketing: an advertising balloon. Simple in concept, yet effective in advertising a product. Billboards are ignored, newspaper ads are thrown away, and commercials are fast-forwarded through. In a consumer culture filled with people that try to ignore the marketing that jumps at them from every medium, how can businesses find creative solutions to get their product advertised?

Advertising balloons.

Power marketing with advertising balloons.

While they may seem a silly or trivial solution, they are powerful. The balloons are brightly colored and simple. They give a product name without crowding the consumer’s thoughts with facts or claims. Eyes are naturally attracted to bright colors, and thus advertising balloons ensure people will look at them, whether by unconscious instinct or conscious decision. Americans want to believe that they are the greatest. It is that notion of American exceptionalism that drove our founders to fight for independence; that drove inventors to create what was once fantasy; that drives citizens today to want to be better than each other. An advertising balloon is a simple reminder of everything that makes us American. USA made giant balloons will help drive people to your store or event.

The balloon, the power of flight, it reminds us of our technological advances over other nations. The advertisement, the power of marketing, it reminds us of our capitalistic might dominating the globe. In short, advertising balloons remind those who instinctively view them of our collective history and our great power. No matter what the product on the balloon is – the name will stick in the consumer’s mind after seeing the balloon. There is power in simplicity, power in reminding us where we came from, and thus, there is power in the advertising balloon. In an age of global economic competition in television and print, returning to the simplicity of the advertising balloon may be the best choice.

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As we’ve reported before, our good friends over at Google are starting up a daily puzzle challenge. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. And much to our enjoyment, they’ve decided to share the puzzles with us at GeekDad (hmm… Google a Day? GD? GeekDad?), so each morning at 12:01am ET you’ll see a new puzzle, and the previous day’s answer (in invisitext) posted here. SPOILER WARNING: As a test, we’re going to leave the comments on so people can work together to find the answer. As such, if you want to figure it out all by yourself, DON’T READ THE COMMENTS! Also, with the knowledge that because others may publish their answers before you do, if you want to be able to search for information without accidentally seeing the answer somewhere, you can use the Google-a-Day site’s search tool, which will automatically filter out published answers, to give you a spoiler-free experience. And now, without further ado, we give you… TODAY’S PUZZLE:

I am an animal that can grow more than 20,000 teeth in my lifetime. Which of my species, extinct or living, has the largest teeth?

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER (HIGHLIGHT TO SEE):

Search [Roman god of fire] to get Vulcan. Search [Vulcan process convert tree sap] to learn the process is vulcanization, which makes rubber. Search [vulcanization] to learn that sulfur is added during vulcanization. Search [atomic number sulfur] to find the answer is 16.