Wednesday, December 5, 2007

~ Search like a professional ~


... want to use Google Search effectively...

#1 Weather: Let's say if you wanted to the know the weather condition and temperature of an area, Just type in the area code along with the keyword
Example: Weather:95051

#2 Stocks: If you need to look at a particular stock, a quick gist then type the keyword 'Stock:' and the stock symbol.
Example: Stock:Goog

#3 Phone Book: Let’s say someone calls you on your mobile number and you don’t know how it is. If all you have is a phone number, you can look it up on Google using the phonebook feature.
Example: phonebook:617-555-1212

#4 Word Definitions: If you need to quickly look up the definition of a word or phrase, simply use the “define:” command.
Example: define:web

#5 Movie: If you would like to check out the movies played nearby area you live. Type the keyword 'movie:' and movie name, area code.
Example: movie: spiderman 95051

#6 Calculator: You can uses google as a calculator for all the arithmetic expressions.
Example: 534 + 789
cos(45)

#7 Conversions: One can also check the temperature, foreign exchange conversions.
Example: 12 celsius to fahrenheit

#8 Planetary information: You can also get planetary data
Example: mass of sun

#9 Site search: One can also do search in a specific site.
Example: site: bestbuy.com HP laptop

#10 Safesearch: One can also search by eliminating porn sites.
Example: safesearch: breast cancer

#11 Area code Lookup: If all you need to do is to look-up the area code for a phone number, just enter the 3-digit area code and Google will tell you where it’s from.
Example: 408

#12 Similar Words and Synonyms: Let’s say you are want to include a word in your search, but want to include results that contain similar words or synonyms.
Example: “internet marketing” ~professional

#13 Searching for URLs containing certain words. Use the "inurl:word" modifier.
Example site:www.w3schools.com inurl:ajax

#14 File type search: Type the concept or subject name first and give the file type you wanted to search.
Example: ajax filetype:ppt
Example: -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" mp3 jennifer
Example: +inurl:avi|wmv|mpg site:rapidshare.com

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