Ultimate Collection of Google Search Skills-101 Google skills

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1. Info: the modifier site_name returns information about a specific page.
2. Similarly, clicking "similar webpage" after a common search can link to the page results that Google considers similar.
3. If you only want to search for the content in a certain address, you may use site: for example, search tips site: www.techradar.com.
4. The above technique uses a directory website like www.dw..org to dynamically generate a website.
5. You can also directly access a limited number of manually selected database websites such as Google directory. The website is www.direcory.google.com.
6. boolean operators such as intitle and inurl are also applicable to Google directory like or.
7. When you use Google image search, you can use the site: modifier to search only images on a website, such as a DVD recorder site: www. Amazon. co. uk.
8. Similarly, if "site:. com" is used, only the results of the website with the. com domain name suffix are returned.
9. Google News (news.google.com) has its own boolean operator. For example, "intext" can only query results from a news subject.
10. If you use the "Source:" Operator in Google news, you can get specific News Archives, such as Heather Mills Source: daily_mail.
11. With the "Location:" filter, you can wait for news from a specific country, such as location: UK.
12. The same Google blog search (blogsearch.google.com) also has its own syntax. You can search for the title of a log, such as "inblogtitle: <keword>"
13. Google's normal search can also obtain accurate results. It is better to use "movie: <name of film>" to find movie reviews.
14. The effect of "Film:" is also the same.
15. Enter the release time in the search box. Google will prompt you to submit your zip code, and then Google will tell you when and where there will be a good show.
16. If you want a special movie search page, go to www. Google. co. uk/movies.
17. If you select "Remember location", you only need to enter the movie name next time you query the movie screening time.
18. Google does make some effort in searching movies. For example, in the search box, enter "Director: <movie name>". What do you get? You must have guessed it.
19. If you want to get an actor list, enter "cast: name_of_film"
20. Add "MUSIC:" Before the band name, song name, or album name to get related music information and comments.
21. If you enter "Weather London" in the search box, you can get the complete weather forecast for London over the last four days.
22. Google also has a built-in dictionary. Use "define: the_word" in the search box to try.
23. goolge saves the previous content of the website. You can directly search for the cache of a page on the Google server. The syntax is "keyword cache: site_url"
24. Enter "cache: site_url" in the search box to go To the cache page.
25. If you do not have a calculator at hand, just remember that Google also has such a function built in. Enter "12*15" and click search to try.
26. Google's built-in calculator not only converts the size but also understands the natural language. Search for "14 stones in kilos"
27. exchange rate conversion is also applicable. Try "200 pounds in euros"
28. If you know the code of a currency, you will get more reliable results, such as "200 GBR in EUR"
29. What is the temperature? Google did not let it go. Enter "98 F to C" to convert Fahrenheit to Celsius.
30. How smart is Google? Enter 2476 in roman numerals and click search.
31. You can also save your Google preferences. You only need to register an account on www.google.com/account.
32. Once you have a Google account, you can get a Gmail account for free. The most important thing is that you can freely access the world of Google.
33. log on to your Google account and use "igoogle" to personalize your Google homepage.
34. Click "add a tab" on "igoogle" to add multiple Content modules. Google will adapt to the entire page based on the modules you have added.
35. "igoogle" allows you to change templates for the Home Page. Click "select theme" to change the existing default themes.
36. There are some "igoogle" themes that change with time. For example, "Sweet Dreams" is a theme that changes with the change of day to night.
37. Click "more" under "try something new" to see a more complete Google website list and some new features.
38. "Custom Search" helps you build a Google search engine for your website.
39. In addition, the list also forgets a very useful service "personalised search", but you can use it by visiting www.google.com/?archt. (a service that saves your search records-Translator's note)
40. This page lists your recent searches and classifies them by specific category. Click "pause" to prevent Google from recording your search history.
41. Click "Trends" to view the most visited websites, the most searched entries, and the most frequently clicked links.
42. Personalized Search also includes a bookmarkdonefile service that helps you save bookmarks online and obtain them anywhere.
43. more conveniently, you can add a bookmarks module on "igoogle" to add or access them.
44. Do you know you can search for the results returned by Google? You can find the link at the bottom of the search result page.
45. Add your zip code after your query to search for local information.
46. Find a map? You only need to write a "map" after the search keyword, such as "Leeds map"
47. google search for images (this refers to Google homepage rather than Google map page, Translator's note) is very simple, as long as you write more "image" after keywords ", you will see the relevant image results at the top of the search results.
48. What's amazing is that Google image search can recognize faces. After "& imgtype = face" is added to the URL of the search result page in the browser's address bar, Google filters out all images that are not human.
49. Want to pay attention to the stock market? You only need to fill in the company's stock code after "stock:" to get the results returned from Google finance.
50. Enter the airline or flight number in the Google search box to get the flight information.
51. What time is it now? Add "time" before the location to get the time of the task location.
52. You may have noticed that Google will alternately prompt you for spelling when entering keywords, And the built-in spelling check is working.
53. You can add "spell:" Before the keyword to directly call Google's spelling check function.
54. Click "I'm feeling lucky" to directly access the web page of the first keyword search result.
55. Enter a keyword for statistics-based query, such as population of Britain. Google will tell you the answer at the top of the result.
56. If you see any non-English search results, click "translate this page" to view the English content translated by Google.
57. You can also search for the content of a foreign website, click the language tool, and select the country you want Google to help you translate the query.
58. Another feature of language tools is to help you translate text blocks that can be freely cut.
59. There is also a region where you can directly enter the URL and translate Google into the desired language.
60. You can see a "preference" link on the "language tool" link. This is a page containing some private settings.
61. You can clearly tell Google the language in which you want to return results. You can select multiple options based on your preferences.
62. Google's secure search can protect you from the infringement of pornographic content. You can choose to make the filtering system stricter or disable it completely.
63. In your preferences, you can change the number of results displayed on a single Google search page. The default value is 10.
64. You can also set to open Google search results in a new window.
65. if you want to know what others are searching for or increase the PageRank value of your own website (Google's self-developed webpage quality ranking evaluation algorithm, the higher the PageRank value, the higher the webpage's top search results, note by the translator )? Go to www.google.com/zeitgeist.
66. Another powerful experimental feature can be found at www.google.com/trends. you can find some popular search entries.
67. Enter multiple keywords separated by commas in the Google trend search box to compare their search performance.
68. Would you like to search in kilin tribute? Go to www.google.com/intl/xx-klingon.
69. Maybe the Swedish chefs in your puppets are your example? Click www.google.com/intl/xx-bork.
70. Enter "answer to life, the universe and everything" in the search box, and you will be shocked by the result.
71. Google can also tell you how many horns a unicorn has (funny enough). Enter "Number of horns on a unicorn" to see it.

1. The best way to use Google search more comprehensively is to click Advanced Search.
2. It allows you to search for more precise phrases, "All phrases", or enter a specific keyword of a phrase in the appropriate search box.
3. In advanced search, you can still customize the number of search results displayed on a page, the Information Language and file format you are looking.
4. "Search for the following websites or domains" allows you to limit the search results by entering a top-level domain such as. co. uk.
5. You can also click the "date, permission to use, number range, and more" link to obtain more advanced functions. (Google Chinese text is displayed directly on the page .)
6. Save settings. Most of these advanced functions can be implemented through command line parameters in the search box on the Google homepage.
7. Google's main search can be implicitly combined with the Boolean structure "and". When you enter smoke Fire-It indicates to search for smoke and fire.
8. For Google to search for smoke or fire, you only need to enter smoke or fire.
9. You can also use | to replace or. For example: Smoke | fire.
10. boolean structures like and or are very case sensitive. They must all be uppercase.
11. Search for specific terms and enter one or more keywords enclosed in parentheses, such as water (smoke or fire)
12. Search for phrases and put them in quotation marks. For example: "There's no smoke without fire ".
13. To search for similar information, you only need to add a wavy line in your keyword, for example :~ Eggplant.
14. Use minus signs to exclude keywords. For example, new pram-EBay allows search results to exclude baby carriage information from eBay.
15. Common Words like I, and, then, and if are to be ignored by Google. They are called stagnant words.
16. The plus sign can include these stagnant words, such as fish + and chips.
17. If a stagnant word is contained in a sentence that is referenced as a phrase and marked in the middle, these words are allowed by Google.
18. You can also ask Google to perform a simple search and try: Christopher Columbus discovered *
19. Use the digital range Function to search for a digital range. For example, Sony TV at a price ranging from 300 to 500 can use the following string: Sony TV £0. 5. 300.
20. Google recognizes 13 major file formats through advanced search, including office, Lotus, postscript, Shockwave Flash, and text.
21. To search for these files, you only need to use the modifier filetype: [file extension]. For example: Soccer filetype: PDF.
22. to exclude the entire file format, you only need to use the same Boolean Syntax: rugby-filetype: Doc that we used to exclude keywords.
23. In fact, as long as your syntax is correct, you can mix any Boolean search operator. For example: "sausage and mash"-Onions filetype: Doc
24. google also has many powerful functions but hidden search parameters. For example, "intitle" only searches for webpage titles (titles ). you can use this example to try: intitle: Webpage Design
25. If you are looking for a file instead of a webpage, you only need to use index of instead of the intitle parameter. It can help you find the network and FTP directory.
26. The inurl modifier only searches for the web site. Use this example to try inurl: spices.
27. You can find the online webcam through inurl: Vien/view.shtml.
28. The inanchor modifier is very special. It only looks for texts that serve as hyperlinks.
29. If you want to know how many links are directed to a website, try the Syntax: Link: URL-for example, link: www.mozilla.org.
30. Similarly, you can use related: modifier to find similar content that Google deems similar. For example: Related: www. Microsoft. co