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Thursday, March 1, 2012

Google search tricks


      

        Now  a days, Many People use  google.com  as a search engine. It is a most popular search engine.  But some people have knowledge about how to use search engine very effectively.
In long days ago, My friend ask me  one question. He asked ,  “how can I install debian lenny in my acer laptop ?” . But I told him to search on google and find out.He tried like  this.
How can I install debian lenny in my acer laptop?
He got millions of link.  But he cannot fine answer immediately. So, he asked me another time. I  try out below like this,
Install debian lenny
What is a magic, require  information is available in first link. It will be save more time.
Here I listed few tricks in google search engine base on my experience.

1.  Making   good search string     
      Google use AND logic for the queries by default. If you search install debian lenny to google searches for pages containing   install AND debian AND lenny. You can put OR logic in the search box like this.
Install OR debian OR lenny
Google is not case sensitive regarding search strings. Google and google and GOOGLE produce same result. However the operator such as AND and OR  case sensitive.
While making query try to avoid ‘the’  ‘and’  ‘a’  in google search. Becase google ignores above words.

2. File searching
      Suppose you want to search pdf document only. Then you  can enter  search query below like this,
Install ubuntu filetype:pdf
Google support mostly all type of file format.

3. Searching from specific website
       If you want to search content below any specific domain. For example    Do you want to know about hostel facility in Thiagarajar college of Engineering. But you don’t get immediately in college website.
You can try like this,
Hostel site:tce.edu
You can get require information in first link.

4. Searching url
      If you want to list all  search result pages base on information contain in url,  
You can try like this,
Inurl:install  debian

 5. Searching in google cache
    If you are looking for some old website you can directly search in google cache.   Try cache:tce.edu and see the cached pages.
In some colleges , mostly block website which contain download link for movies and other thing. You can view this website using google cache pages. Since, information is outdated , some information will be use full.
You can install addon  for browsing goolge cache pages.
Install Greasemonkey addon and install user script from this  link,  http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/30878

6. Advance Search in google
   Most of people omit advance search option in google search. I think most of below option available in advance search. You can also use it.

7. Google calculator
   you can use search engine for simple calculation.
2+2  in google search. It display 4.

 8.  Find time in various location
If  you want to find time in  in india,search below like,
Time India

 9. Currency convector:
     you can covert currency below link this,
1$ in inr
It convert one doller  to respective Indian rupee.

10. Looking for definition:
      You can find definition of words around the web by
Define:apple

11.   Image search
   If you want to search similar image which is  your hard disk.
Then, you open image search option in google and upload your image  and search it. 

If you want to know more information about search query
Please refer :
Thanks for reading   :)

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