This morning I was given a tracking number for a parcel I am expecting.  However, I didn’t get the name of the company who were to deliver it.  Not a good start if I wanted to use the tracking number to actually track the parcel.

Then I remembered a discussion at work about Google’s recognition routines, and one of my few remaining synapses fired into life.

I went to Google’s homepage, typed in my tracking number (nothing else, just the number) and hit search.  I have to admit I was very pleasantly surprised when the top of the results page said “Track UPS package 1Z6 …..  70″

Very neat.