Google search tips
A bunch of useful google tips to improve your searches and allow you to do a lot more than just basic searching with google.
Reference : The google story by David A.Vise
(1) Google can be your phone book – Type a buisness name, city and state to get a number or type the number to reverse search it.
(2) A Calculator – Type in a maths problem to compute it. words or numbers
(3) More search words the better – To narrow your search
(4) Use quotation marks for precision searches – ideal for exact search occurances.
(5) Google dictionary – Type define followed by the english word.
(6) Capitalization doesnt matter – Google ignores words like the, and , is, of.
(7) Forget Pluralism – Typing dances, dances or dancing returns the same results.
(8) Get the picture – To search for images click on the images link first
(9)Browse bookshelves online – Search for a topic at print.google.com and you will see information from actual books scanned and indexed by google
(10) Dial googl when youre on the go – Get phone numbers, directions, movie times, stock quotes and more delivered to youre mobile. Send a text message with the query to 46645 and you will be text back answers
(11) Weatherman – Type weather followed by your zip code or a city name to get a weather forcast.
(12) Get a stock quote – Type a stock ticker symbol into the search box
(13) Translate into other languages – Hit the language tools link on the right side of the search box
(14) Take a magic ~ ride – Type in a tilde before a word and google will search both the term and synonyms
(15) PG rated results – Select preferences and change the safesearch settings
(16) More results per page – Adjusted under the preferences option
(17) Google search guide – google.com/help/cheatsheet.html
(18) Newscaster – Reachable via the news link or news.google.com
(19) Become a scholar – Tap into thousands of acedemic journals at scholar.google.com
(20) Focus your search – restrict searches to a specific domain, site or page by putting site,domain after your search phrase ie. pirates site,disney.com only return “pirates” from disney sites. To eliminate specific pages from a search add a minus sign prior to site ie. vista -site,microsoft.com filters out results from the microsoft sites.
(21) Search google cache – To find sites which arnt responding or no longer available then you can search googles cache (copy of the internet). Type cache, infront your search string or select cache link at the bottom of the results page.