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 Since, information is outdated , some information will be use full.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.
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 :)
