Top 10 Google Search Tips and Tricks Techniques - Information Technology

10 Google Search Tips and Tricks Techniques

Google search a staple of our internet experience now using google is incredibly easy but to make full use of what features google can offer as well as to you know sort of tweak its behavior to your liking well that's not quite as easy today we're going to be taking a look at 10 tips that will perhaps make this a little better for before we begin disclaimer if you are technically inclined which I know quite a lot of you are maybe you already know some of the tips that i'm about to share so yeah perhaps i can only hope that we will cover something that you've never heard of but i can assure you that you know the things that we're going to see today are importance they are going to be useful or at the very least extremely cool to play with so without any further ado let us begin with tips 

1. First and most importantly of all use quotes around search terms now this is so important that if you're only going to take away one thing from this article let it be this you see when you actually perform a search normally using multiple words those words can appear in any order this may actually give you results that are not what you expect so well you put quotes around a phrase that should appear together Google will then only give you results in which these words appear together of course you can have multiple of such terms within your search query just have you know multiple sets of quotes at upwards this is also useful if you find that Google is actually dropping certain search terms this can happen when Google thinks they are not important but the ipod's into you so go ahead and put quotes around those words and they will not be ignored in the past you could actually use the plus sign to do the same thing but from what I've read that's not the case anymore Google had a google plus they now use that character for their own purposes.

2. The negative sign now sometimes when you perform a search you may find that there are a lot of results that aren't actually relevant to you and they all have something in common what you can do is you can simply add that term into your search bar but put a negative sign behind it this tells Google to ignore the word and so they will not appear in your search results.

3.  Site now if you ever want to search for things within a particular site well you can do that type in the word site insert a colon and then type out the domain of the site make sure you don't leave a space after the colon the two things must be stuck together the rest of your search will be confined to that particular site.

4. Definition now if you ever wanted to you know do a dictionary lookup for a particular word put into what definition stick a colon after it and then type into what you want to look up this tells Google to actually look towards dictionary sites and more often than not what's gonna happen is a definition is and more often than not what's going to happen as Google is just going to find something that looks okay and presented directly to you that way you don't even have to click through to any sites so what we've just seen I sounds the basic feature some things you can do with in the search box itself let's now actually step a little bit beyond the basic Google search and look at some other features that Google has to offer. 

5. From time to time you may need some kind of a stopwatch or some kind of a timer you know maybe you're rehearsing for our presentation maybe you're making eggs I don't know the point is google lets you do that right on the google search page itself if you search for stopwatch well Google presents you with a working stopwatch if you search for timer well you get a timer that you can set the alternative to setting the timer directly via the interface is by actually just searching the time you want so say if i search for two hour timer then it will be set a calling me and we'll start immediately. 

6. Reverse image search now you know what image search is you give Google you know a query and it'll give you images relevant to that query reverse image search is much more interesting you actually give Google a picture and it will find you relevant pictures to perform reverse image search simply drag and drop an image either from your browser or from you know some file explorer on your computer onto the text field of google image search the image is uploaded to google and they will perform a search using the image of supply this could be useful for plethora of reasons you could be tracing the source of an image maybe you have a very small image and you're trying to find a larger version simply tell google you're looking for all sizes of a particular image and Google will actually present you all the copies that's ever found in descending order of studies. 

7. Units and currency conversion as it turns out google is also great at very quickly converting from one unit to another all you have to do is to simply put in your quantity give it your original unit and then simply say to and a new unit and that's all the only thing Google converts Google can also convert currency types for example I can put a value in USD to convert to JP what which is Japanese yet if you don't know the abbreviation for the type of currency no problem just replace it with the country's name and then write the word currency at the end all these conversions are presented to you in a widget that can be modified what this means is if you want to perform subsequent conversions just type them in a widget and get an immediate response.

8. you can also use google as a calculator in fact you can put in any expression you can even use it as a scientific calculator you know functions like locks work functions like trigonometry works so yeah it's actually a pretty powerful calculator and why stop there you can even combine arithmetic with some of the conversion functions so if you want to do some calculation in one unit and convert it to another just take the two things together and it will work as you expect.

9. Plott grubs now not only can google do math for you you can even draw out your graphs in both 2d and 3d all you have to do is to put in a valid expression in terms of x and y to get a 2d graph all in terms of x y and z for a 3d graph you can then interactive the graph using your mouse you know you can either turn it around if it's 3d or panning around if it's too deep the 2d version also tells you you know all the x and y values so if you're looking for roots this is an easy way to do it finally. 

10. And this is a google maps tip anytime you want to find your way from one place to another simply type from place name to place me that will actually bring up Google Maps and will help you find your wave that some of the advanced things you can't do in this context is you can actually search for postal codes instead of you know addresses or street names sometimes addresses are just too long and I'm really too tight or sometimes maybe an address isn't very clear you know maybe you don't know all of it or if you know that some ambiguity using a postal code helps and as an added bonus you can actually try using from home or to home depending on what settings google actually has it may actually be able to figure out where you live which is kind of creepy in retrospect but that of course saves you a little bit of time telling Google we're home actually is and there you go that's it for this episode I hope you've learned something today especially for you tech savvy people hopefully something in this article was useful to you but yeah that's it that's all...