Google Tips and Tricks

[Paramvir]

heres how to use Google to restrict your search for a keyword within a particular site ONLY
(example, you want to search for all things ORANGE available on IKEA, and IKEA's search engine doesnt perform)

type the following code into Google:

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"Orange"site:www.ikea.com

[kikikikikiki]

no it throws up results from other sites also toh

[Paramvir]

no, it does not. run it in google.

I just tried the sample code below, from page 1 to page 10, ALL results are from Google.

try this:

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"Monsoon Wedding"site:www.imdb.com

it will throw up all instances of the words Monsoon Wedding on the website www.imdb.com

[kikikikikiki]

this is so weird! coz u r right. yesterday i did the same thing and got other results, and today i get just ikea sites! how is that possible! in both cases i copy pasted the code. any way. thanks for the tip.

[Paramvir]

Searching for Synonyms: When you are searching for House[/i[ but want to search for Home too, search for

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~house

To get to know which synonyms the Google database stores for individual words, simply use the minus operator to exclude synonym after synonym (they will always show as bold in the SERPs, the search engine result pages). Like this:

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[~house -home -housing -floor]

interesting, if you search for

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[~house -house]

you get no results, as you cancelled out your search word

To see a really large page-count (possibly, the Google index size, though one can only speculate about that), search for

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[* *]

Google has some exciting back-end AI to allow you to find just the facts upong entering simple questions or phrases like

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 [when was Einstein born?] 

or

[einstein birthday]

(the answer to both of these queries is “Albert Einstein – Date of Birth: 14 March 1879”). This feature was introduced April this year and is called Google Q&A. (See some of the various working Q&A sample queries to get a feeling for what’s possible.)

Also Try the Google Calculator

[kikikikikiki]

(reattaching more readable pix-admin)

[TruthHurts]

To get Local Time of a big city

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at time is it mumbai

Convert currency, metrics etc
Google has a powerful built in calculator-converter that can convert/calculate basically anything, i think

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seconds in a year

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quarter cup in teaspoons

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8 USD in Indian Rupees

Find Music and Comic books (from lifehacker)
You can turn Google into your personal Napster. Go ahead, try this search for Nirvana tracks: -

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inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:"index of" +"last modified" +"parent directory" +description +size +(wma|mp3) "Nirvana"

(Sub out Nirvana for the band you're interested in; use this one in conjunction with number 7 to find new music, too.) The same type of search recipe can find comic books as well.

Specific
suppose you are searching for people called Rose. Typing 'rose' in google search bar (in google images ) will thrown up pictures of rose

but i took this URL of the search parameter 'rose'
h*tp://images.google.com/images?hl=en&sa=1&q=rose&btnG=Search+images&aq=f&oq=ros
and changed it a bit by adding "&imgtype=face" to the end of my image search url to restrict to faces

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http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&sa=1&q=rose&btnG=Search+images&aq=f&oq=ros&imgtype=face

see what you get. you can use it to custommake your own search codes.

[TruthHurts]

Local Movie times
Movie Name + City,State
(replace movie name, city state with your relevance)

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Angels and Demons + Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Weather
weather city

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weather mumbai

[Paramvir]

some more from kikikikikiki's earlier post

[Desh Premi]

hahahha, love this one. I typed "Hanuman Mandir Delhi" and I got so many results on the maps!