Advanced Google search tips
You’re statistically likely to be someone that uses Google on a daily basis.
As we know, it’s fantastic for finding things out. Questions that would have taken a trip to the library 10 years ago to answer can now be resolved in seconds. Google has some other tricks up its sleeve that you may not know about.
1) If you need to know the meaning of something, type ‘define:’ followed by the word you’re interested in (without the ‘’) e.g. define: computer returns a number of results, the first being ‘a machine for performing calculations automatically ‘ . Very handy.
2) If you can’t think of a word, eg. I know there’s a word that describes curtains and other things that fall into the same category, type a ~ before a similar word (on my keyboard you get the ~ by holding shift and pressing the # key) and google will include synonyms (similar words) in the search results. In the case mentioned above, I type ~curtains and the first result to show up is…aha!.. Drapery.
3) Did you know you can also use Google as a calculator? Try typing in 34 x 5, or (65-5) * 2 and Google will tell you the answer. Try searching for number of horns on a unicorn
4) Google will also convert money, weights, volumes, distances etc for you. Try ‘1 pound in euros’ or ‘6 pounds in kg’ or ‘3 light years in miles’.
5) You need to visit a website that you know answers your question but the site is down at the moment. Or perhaps your boss filters the Internet and you can’t look at certain sites. The good news is that Google keeps copies of web pages! Type ‘cache:’ followed by the website address and voila! E.g. cache:www.pchelpcentre.co.uk
There are many more Google tricks but these are some of the handiest for day to day use I think.
Let me know if you want more!
Dave
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