Google Tips

satheesh

Hi,

Here are great tips to use Google. The multi faces of Google. I have given some. Please keep them updated with whatever you find Google useful as.

Phrase your question in the form of an answer. So instead of typing, "What is the average rainfall in the Amazon basin?", you might get better results by typing "The average rainfall in the Amazon basin is."

This is an old one, but very important: Put quotes around phrases that must be searched together. If you put quotes around "electric curtains," Google won't waste your time finding one set of Web pages containing the word "electric" and another set containing the word "curtains."

Similarly, put a hyphen right before any word you want screened out. If you're looking up dolphins, for example, you'll have to wade through a million Miami Dolphins pages unless you search for "dolphins -Miami."

Google is a global White Pages and Yellow Pages. Search for "phonebook:home depot norwalk, ct," Google instantly produces the address and phone number of the Norwalk Home Depot. This works with names ("phonebook:robert jones las vegas, NV") as well as businesses.
Don't put any space after "phonebook." And in all of the following examples, don't type the quotes I have shown you here.

regards,
Satheesh

manumiglani

COol Tips Satheesh

Keep it up!!!!!

meet in rio

Ooh. I didn't know about the hyphen one... Embarassed

Scorpio

That was a quite concise explanation.

Good Job

Even I did not know about that hyphen thing

Thanks for enlightening me

Panthrowzay

Google is a proxy to translate english to english and cache surfing

selim06

thanks i will use these i knew something but i've learned new things right away...

brad31337

You left out an important one: define:apples
Obviously you replace the word apples with whatever you wish to define.

Just give you the definition of words and what not.

Itachi

wow that was really helpful to tell you the truth i didnt know any of it. Oh well i do now and will actually be able to find stuff better now

~Itachi

dray101

Those are real cool! Razz

A knew some of them but not the hyphen and phonebook.

Go to: http://www.google.com/help/basics.html and then you can learn them all.

Also check out: http://www.google.com/help/refinesearch.html
and http://www.google.com/help/features.html

Search on! Wink

LostOverThere

I'm the same as dray101 with knowing those except the Phonebook and the hyphen.

Thanks!

cfackler

Google also works as a calculator. One of the cooler features I find usefull is unit conversions.

ie. "1 ft to cm" would convert feet to centimeters.

jabapyth

here are some of the things you mentioned:
http://www.google.com/help/basics.html

h5n1clan

You can find music off of it. . .
intitle:index.of "mp3" +"Insert song or band name here" -htm -html -php -asp "Last Modified"

finds alot of songs that are on the internet

bluedragon

Thanks everybody. Google is pretty powerful when you know how to use it.

speedlikecy

good for newbie
thanks Very Happy

mstreet

These tips are all that and a bag of chips

Thanks everyone, it's great to find new ways of looking for things

joshdifabio

Google really is amazing now they just add new features all the time it seems. I can't imagine the internet without it now!

dancan

These are super helpful! I will be adding this page to my favorites!
~dancan

{name here}

Adding -con to your searches will remove most blogs.

Donutey

the answer to life, the universe and everything

google says it's 42... lol

sibbahz

Didnt realise about the quotes one, thats useful as im always getting useless search results picking up one of the key words im using.
I use the define: one a lot, basically google dictionary Very Happy

windval

great!!

thx for your sharing

i like that very much!!

toughtrio

I spose everyone would know but i would just ADD to it
like if you need to search for igcse past papers, then dont waste your time, just type past papers + igsce to get the selected results only.
Nice tricks.

snowboardalliance

That define: one is helpful, didn't know about it.

NjRocket

interesting, always seem to get false websites when searching. The sites never have what i want and they always seem to be offtopic. I guess i'll try this out, should be interesting to see if it works. Good find.

myrevolt

http://google.com/search?q=cache:www.frihost.com/

Where frihost is any site; gives you the cached page if available.

OR

just type the below into Google's search box.

curnow

the_mariska

falconfx

Very good tips! Wink

I may suggest also this one: add in the search field "filetype:ext" to find files with a specific extension (e.g. "filetype:pdf").

Of course, don't type the quotes! Very Happy

Jack_Hammer

My main tip, would be to type 'www.google.co.uk' into your address bar, then try searching.
Wink

loveoz

There's a lot, I mean a lot of different GOogle search options.
Examples (however I'm not sure if they're right)
conversion:2 centimetres to inches
length:

I know there are ones like these, but I'm not sure about the two I just said.

Never hurts to try, though.

intrawebdesign

Hey thanks man! I'd written de codes somewhere but I lost the paper.

satheesh

Hi,
I ahve added some more tips that I got.

Google is a package tracker. Type a FedEx or UPS package number (just the digits); when you click Search, Google offers a link to its tracking information.

Google is a calculator. Type in an equation ("32+2345*3-234=").

Google is a units-of-measurement converter. Type "teaspoons in a gallon," for example, or "centimeters in a foot."

Google is a stock ticker. Type in AAPL or MSFT, for example, to see a link to the current Apple or Microsoft stock price, graphs, financial news and so on.

Google is an atlas. Type in an area code, like 212, to see a Mapquest
map of the area.

regards,
Satheesh P R

satheesh

Hi,

I forgot to tell. I have got a superb PDF book "Gmail Hack". This book cooks up in and out of the Gmail. What you want to know and do not want to know about gmail are given here.

If you get to lay your hands upon this book, read it till you are sure that you can extract the entire juice out of your Gmail account.

It is also a great read with pointers to others good sites and also giving guidelines of appropriate usage of your Gmail account.

Regards,
Satheesh P R

satheesh

Hi,
I have got more and more tips for you here.

Google is an aviation buff. Type in a flight number like "United 22" for a link to a map of that flight's progress in the air. Or type in the tail number you see on an airplane for the full registration form for
that plane.

Google is the Department of Motor Vehicles. Type in a VIN (vehicle identification number, which is etched onto a plate, usually on the door frame, of every car), like "JH4NA1157MT001832," to find out the car's year, make and model.

For hours of rainy-day entertainment, visit http://labs.google.com. Here, you'll find links to new, half-finished Google experiments-like Google Voice, in which you call (650) 623-6706, speak the words you want to search for and then open your browser to view the results. Disclaimer: It wasn't working when I tried it. (Ditto a lot of these experiments.)

satheesh

Hi,

These tips were found by my friend. These are also great.

Google is Wal-Mart's computer. Type in a UPC bar code number, such as "036000250015," to see the description of the product you've just "scanned in."

Poke around the "Services & Tools" link on the Google.com home page and you'll find some of the better-known lesser-known Google features, if that makes any sense. For example, there's Froogle (product search), News, Groups (Internet discussion boards), Google Catalogs (hundreds of scanned-in product
catalogs), Images (find graphics and photos from other people's Web sites), Blogger (publish your own online journal), Google language translation, Google Answers (pay a couple of bucks to have a professional researcher find the answers for you) and much more.

Download and install the Google toolbar. Not only does it put the Google search box into your browser full-time, but it also blocks pop-up ads and fills in forms for you. For Windows at http://toolbar.google.com. (Ad blocking, form-filling and Google's search box are already built into the Apple's Web browser, Safari.)

Regards,
Satheesh

Scorpio

Thanks for the info satheesh.

This is one of the very few informative posts and thanks to you.

satheesh

Hi,

Found some more tips that I presume would be useful. Please reply as to the wrth of the tips.

Google also offers suggestions based on what u type...
But, use this instead ...
http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en

This feature learns and adapts to ur usage when u use Google's personalized search (google.com/ig).

i.e., If u often search for tutorials, and type "Java "
it will offer suggestions for Java Tutorials and others and not
"Java Programming" etc.,!!!

Regards,
Satheesh

satheesh

Hi,

Am posting here one tip regarding the usage of Google. If any of you trip upon any site giving out worthwhile information on how to use Google then please post a link to the site here and also give all your tips here.

You can use google as a dictionary to so if you want to find out what forum means just type the following

satheesh

Hey,

Go to the following and you will thank me for going here .. It has hell a lot of information about the various ways of using Google.

These informations are about Google .. from Google..

http://www.google.co.za/intl/en/help/features.html#calculator

Happy time squeezing the juice out of Google... the one and only mega search engine...

Regards,
Satheesh

jaijujacob

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:brinkster.com+(intitle:resume+OR+inurl:resume)+(software)&btnG=Google+Search&num=100

see the url Wink

rajhank

They are way to old! But still thanks for the matter, really useful.

Think

littlegiant

Okay here's my two cents. Google actually serves up different search results depending on the country you're connected to the internet from. I've found that search results will differ even between google.ca (Canada) and google.com (which I'm presuming is the default for the U.S.). So if you go to Google and you keep getting redirected to your country-specific version of Google and instead you would like to go directly to and search from google.com then enter the following URL into your address bar and hit Go:

http://www.google.com/ncr

Smile

kieranleighton

Nice i never know that google could do that much stuff, Thanks for telling Smile

will help in the future