Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Googling

Google has become our default web page where we find answers to our questions whether it is technical or non technical. The word "Google" has been added to Oxford Dcitionary on "June 15 2006" which refers to information search using Google Search Engine.

Here are few tips and tricks to make use of Google effectively.

1.Suppose we wannna perform arithmetical calculations or we can straight away find the result by giving the expressions.

2.To check out the stock price or movie :
movie: followed by movie name
stock: followed by ticker symbol

3.Conversion: (Say dollars to Rupees )
1 US dollar in Indian rupees: displays the results directly

4. Definition for a word or phrase:
Define: followed by the word for which the definition is required.

4.Searching:
a.The ~ operator searches for the synonym of the keyword we have typed in
b.To search for the exact term the keyword should be given within codes.
c.To include a keyword in search give the + operator before that. To exclude a particular word from search include a - operator. In both the cases,there should be a space before the operator.
d. Logical OR, AND also works provided they are capitalised.

5.Google.com/codesearch is a boon which gives the snippet we are looking into straight away.

Happy googling!!

5 comments:

Srini said...

Good one !!

Google has oodles (Infact, i checked 'oodles' meaning now using define :)) of tips and tricks like this. One nice thing that could come handy for ourself is the "link:" keyword. It scans the web and lists the results of who links to you.

Eg: link:http://varalakshmi.blogspot.com

While trying to find around how much of tricks exists like this, I got a one-stop place here. http://www.google.com/help/features.html

Nice work. Keep writing :)

Vadivel said...

Nice to see you back :) Keep 'em coming on a regular basis :)

Varalakshmi said...

You mean the Syntax? www.Google.com/codesearch helps out in syntax.

Deepak Vasudevan said...

1) Google Calculator:
http://www.google.com/help/features.html#calculator

2) Conversion Currency: XE.com (They have a daily mailout option)

3) Dictionary: Lot of them. M-W, Dictionary.com ...

VV said...

Here is one more link that gives you something....

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2005-09-29-n85.html