Showing posts with label Google Search Tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google Search Tips. Show all posts

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Google Search: Time

To see the time in many cities around the world, type in "time" and the name of the city.

for Example: time London

will return:

Clock8:37pm Thursday (BST) - Time in London, United Kingdom
London, Ontario 3:37pm EDT
London, Arkansas 2:37pm CDT

Google Search: Stock

To see current market data for a given company or fund, type the ticker symbol into the search box. On the results page, you can click the link to see more data from Google Finance

for Example: CSCO

will return:

CSCO - Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ)

20.16 +0.21‎ (1.05%‎) 11 Jun 3:34pm ET
Open: 19.96
High: 20.35
Low: 19.90
Volume: 35,508,364
Avg Vol: 54,066,000
Mkt Cap: 116.28B
Disclaimer

To see the weather for many U.S. and worldwide cities using Google Search

To see the weather for many U.S. and worldwide cities, type "weather" followed by the city and state, U.S. zip code, or city and country.

Example: weather New York

will return:

Weather for New York, NY, USA
16°C
Current: Light rain
Wind: N at 8 km/h
Humidity: 97%
Thu
Showers
21°C | 17°C
Fri
Chance of Storm
28°C | 18°C
Sat
Chance of Showers
26°C | 17°C
Sun
Chance of Storm
25°C | 16°C

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Search results labeled 'This site may harm your computer'

This warning message appears with search results Google have identified as sites that may install malicious software on your computer.

If you click the title of the result, you'll be shown the warning rather than being taken immediately to the webpage in question. You can choose to continue to the site at your own risk.

more details in Google, visit here.

Friday, May 29, 2009

Fill in the blanks (*)

The *, or wildcard, is a little-known feature that can be very powerful. If you include * within a query, it tells Google to try to treat the star as a placeholder for any unknown term(s) and then find the best matches. For example, the search [ Google * ] will give you results about many of Google's products (go to next page and next page -- we have many products). The query [ Obama voted * on the * bill ] will give you stories about different votes on different bills. Note that the * operator works only on whole words, not parts of words.

Search within a specific website (site:)

Google allows you to specify that your search results must come from a given website. For example, the query [ iraq site:nytimes.com ] will return pages about Iraq but only from nytimes.com. The simpler queries [ iraq nytimes.com ] or [ iraq New York Times ] will usually be just as good, though they might return results from other sites that mention the New York Times. You can also specify a whole class of sites, for example [ iraq site:.gov ] will return results only from a .gov domain and [ iraq site:.iq ] will return results only from Iraqi sites.

Google Phrase search ("")

Phrase search ("")
By putting double quotes around a set of words, you are telling Google to consider the exact words in that exact order without any change. Google already uses the order and the fact that the words are together as a very strong signal and will stray from it only for a good reason, so quotes are usually unnecessary. By insisting on phrase search you might be missing good results accidentally. For example, a search for [ "Alexander Bell" ] (with quotes) will miss the pages that refer to Alexander G. Bell.

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Search with boolean operators

The Boolean operator AND, OR, NOT can be added to re-fine your searching result when using Google Search.

AND(+): The AND operator forces Google to match the search results against all your keywords. The operator is signified by a plus sign (+). Place the plus sign immediately before any words without a space, for example: Google +search

NOT(-): The NOT operator excludes words. The symbol is a minus sign (-). Place the symbol immediately before a word.
for example: Google -search

OR: The OR operator is helpful when using obscure keywords that might not return much of value if used singly. It also neatly divides a search along two concurrent avenues of exploration. Simply type OR (use capital letters) before a keyword and leave a space between the operator and the following keyword. Google then accepts matches to the keyword preceding the operator or following the operator.
for example: Google Android Maps OR Earth