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April / May 2008
We all know that we can find almost anything on the web, but sometimes how to start, or the shortest path to the answer, isn’t clear. Here are a few tips to make you a Google Power User.
First the basics.
If you enter a search phrase without quotes, your results will include various combinations of the words and even pages with only some of the words. If you want to make sure that the results contain both or all the words, separate the words with a + sign. To search for an exact phrase (all words, exact word order) include the phrase in quotes. This is useful when you are looking for the entire document from which a quote was drawn.
For example a search for - “shows that you understand, that you have the solution and offers the shortest path to that solution” - will return a link directly to the online version of the CompuWorks newsletter where that quote appears.
Need the weather? Enter weather city state:
and in short order you get results which include the abbreviated current conditions and short term forecast and links to hundreds of pages should you need more in-depth information.
Looking for a stock price? Enter stock:stock-symbol -
Looking for a phone number? Enter phone book: name city -
Time in another location? Enter time: country -
Need a definition? Enter define:word -
Looking for a specific file type? For example, if I am interested in finding Word
document with ms word keyboard shortcuts, I can use "ms word shortcuts filtype:doc" and the results will include only word documents with ms word shortcuts (ie cheat sheats that I could print out and keep by my work station). The same would go for any other file type (ie pdf, etc).
More Google
You can get a “cheat sheet” with all of the Google advanced operators at
http://www.google.com/help/operators.html
Or try a search for - google cheat sheet!
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