29+ Extra Ordinary Quick Tips To Become Search Expert in Google

1. Explicit Phrase: Lets say you are looking for content about internet marketing. Instead of just typing internet marketing into the Google search box, you will likely be better off searching explicitly for the phrase. To do this, simply enclose the search phrase within double quotes.

Example: “internet marketing”

2. Exclude Words: Lets say you want to search for content about internet marketing, but you want to exclude any results that contain the term advertising. To do this, simply use the “-“ sign in front of the word you want to exclude.

Example Search: internet marketing -advertising

3. Site Specific Search: Often, you want to search a specific website for content that matches a certain phrase. Even if the site doesn’t support a built-in search feature, you can use Google to search the site for your term. Simply use the “site:somesite.com” modifier.

Example: “internet marketing” site:www.smallbusinesshub.com

4. Similar Words and Synonyms: Let’s say you are want to include a word in your search, but want to include results that contain similar words or synonyms. To do this, use the “~” in front of the word.

Example: “internet marketing” ~professional

5. Specific Document Types: If you’re looking to find results that are of a specific type, you can use the modifier “filetype:”. For example, you might want to find only PowerPoint presentations related to internet marketing.

Example: “internet marketing” filetype:ppt

6. This OR That: By default, when you do a search, Google will include all the terms specified in the search. If you are looking for any one of one or more terms to match, then you can use the OR operator. (Note: The OR has to be capitalized).

Example: internet marketing OR advertising

7. Phone Listing: Let’s say someone calls you on your mobile number and you don’t know how it is. If all you have is a phone number, you can look it up on Google using the phonebook feature.

Example: phonebook:617-555-1212 (note: the provided number does not work – you’ll have to use a real number to get any results).

8. Area Code Lookup: If all you need to do is to look-up the area code for a phone number, just enter the 3-digit area code and Google will tell you where it’s from.

Example: 617

9. Numeric Ranges: This is a rarely used, but highly useful tip. Let’s say you want to find results that contain any of a range of numbers. You can do this by using the X..Y modifier (in case this is hard to read, what’s between the X and Y are two periods. This type of search is useful for years (as shown below), prices or anywhere where you want to provide a series of numbers.

Example: president 1940..1950

10. Stock (Ticker Symbol): Just enter a valid ticker symbol as your search term and Google will give you the current financials and a quick thumb-nail chart for the stock.

Example: GOOG

11. Calculator: The next time you need to do a quick calculation, instead of bringing up the Calculator applet, you can just type your expression in to Google.

Example: 48512 * 1.02

12. Word Definitions: If you need to quickly look up the definition of a word or phrase, simply use the “define:” command.

Example: define:plethora

Hope this proves useful in your future Google searches. If there are any of your favorite Google power tips that I’ve missed, please feel free to share them in the comments.

13. Searching for URLs containing certain words. Use the “inurl:word” modifier.

Example site:forumw.org inurl:discuss

Actually I have gathered the information above from some site, below is the list created by AJM Rafi.

14. Google Book Search:
Google search box can be used to search books
example search : books about philosophy

15.Currency Conversion
Use search box for currency conversion.
example search : 3.5 USD in GBP
example search : USD in Euros

16.Product Search
Search any Products
example search : coffee maker

17.Groups
example search : google maps api help

18. I am feeling lucky
You may wonder what is “I am Feeling lucky” button while we search. Google lists the first web page on the internet that appeared for a particular keyphrase.

example search : batadase

19.Images
example search : sunrise pictures

20.Local Search
example search : pizza London

21. Movies
To find reviews and showtimes for movies playing near you, type “movies”, “showtimes” or the name of a current film into the Google search box.

example search : movies
example search : Casino Royale
example search : movie: never say never again

23. Music Search
Find information about artists, songs, albums and places to buy the music you are looking for. If you enter the name of an artist popular in the U.S. into the search box, we will display user reviews, song titles, stores to purchase the music and other useful information related to that artist at the top of your search results.

example search : pixies

24. News Headlines

When searching on Google you may see links at the top of your results marked “News”. These links connect you to reports culled from numerous news services Google continuously monitors. The links appear if the terms you enter are words currently

in the news and clicking on them will take you directly to the service supplying them

example: election

25. Q&A

Want to know the population of Japan? What currency is used in Algeria? The birthplace of Bono? Hit us with a fact-based question or query (like “population of Japan”) by typing it into the Google search box. We’ll search the web and display the answer at the top of your search results page. We also link to our source for this information so that you can learn even more.

example: population of Japan

26.Street Maps

map icon

To use Google to find street maps, enter a U.S. street address, including zip code or city/ state (e.g. 165 University Ave

Palo Alto CA), in the Google search box. Often, the street address and city name will be enough.

example: 165 University Ave Palo Alto CA

27.Travel Information

To see delays and weather conditions at a particular airport, type the airport’s three letter code followed by the word

“airport.” For example, San Francisco International Airport updates can be found by searching for “sfo airport.”

Search: sfo airport

To check the status of a U.S. flight, type the name of the airline followed by the flight number. For example, to see the

status for United Airlines flight 134 search for “United 134.”

search: united 134

28.Weather

To see weather conditions and a four-day forecast for a particular U.S. or worldwide location, type “weather,” followed by the location. Usually a city name will be enough, but you may also want to include a state or zipcode or the country for worldwide cities. For example, to see Palo Alto weather, you could search for

“weather palo alto, ca” or “weather palo alto 94301″.

If you like to see the weather of this location on your personalized Google homepage, you can do this by clicking on the button ‘Add to my Google homepage’ in the upper right corner.

Search: weather palo alto, ca

29.Who Links To You?

Some words, when followed by a colon, have special meanings to Google. One such word for Google is the link: operator. The

query lin1k:siteURL shows you pages that point to that URL

link:www.google.com

Recently I have received a news letter from Entireweb.com, I would like to share it with my readers.

History of the Search Engine - What Came Before Google?

Although we credit Google, Yahoo, and other major search engines for giving us the system we use to find the information we seek, the concept of hypertext came to life in 1945 when Vannaver Bush urged scientist to work together to help build a body of knowledge for all man kind. He then proposed the idea of a virtually limitless, fast, reliable, extensible, associative memory storage and retrieval system. He named this device a memex.

But there is a long list of great minds that have given us the information system we now use today. This article illustrates some of them. Here is the History of the Search Engine:

Ted Nelson
Ted Nelson created Project Xanadu in 1960 and coined the term hypertext in 1963. His goal with Project Xanadu was to create a computer network with a simple user interface that solved many social problems like attribution. While Ted’s project Xanadu, for reasons unknown, never really took off, much of the inspiration to create the WWW came from Ted’s work.

George Salton
George Salton was the father of modern search technology. He died in August of 1995. His teams at Harvard and Cornell developed the Saltons Magic Automatic Retriever of Text, otherwise known as the SMART informational retrieval system. It included important concepts like the vector space model, Inverse Document Frequency (IDF), Term Frequency (TF), term discrimination values, and relevancy feedback mechanisms. His book A theory of indexing explains many of his tests. Search today is still based on much of his theories. History of the search engine uses some of the same techniques even today.

Alan Emtage
In 1990 a student at McGill University in Montreal, by the name of Alan Emtage created Archie; the first search engine. It was invented to index FTP archives, allowing people to quickly access specific files. Archie users could utilize Archie’s services through a variety of methods including e-mail queries, telneting directly to a server, and eventually through the World Wide Web interfaces. Archie only indexed computer files. With Archie, Alan Emtage helped to solve the data scatter problem. Originally, it was to be named archives but was changed to Archie for short.

Paul Lindner and Mark P. McCahill
Archie gained such popularity that in 1991 Paul Linder and Mark P. McCahill created a text based information browsing system that uses a menu-driven interface to pull information from across the globe to the user’s computer. Named for the Golden Gophers mascot at the University of Minnesota, the name is fitting, because Gopher tunnels through other Gophers located in computers around the world, arranging data in a hierarchical series of menus, which users can search for specific topics.

Tim Berners-Lee
Up until 1991 until there was no World Wide Web. The main method of sharing information was via FTP. Tim Berners-Lee wanted to join hypertext with the internet. He used similar ideas to those underlying the Enquire (a prototype created with help from Robert Cailliau) to create the World Wide Web, for which he designed and built the first web browser and editor, called WorldWideWeb, and developed on NeXTSTEP. He then created the first Web server called httpd, short for HyperText Transfer Protocol daemon.

The first Web site built was at: http://info.cern.ch/ and was first put online on August 6, 1991. Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web Consortium in 1994. Tim also created the Virtual Web library which is the oldest catalogue of the web. The history of the search engine is a fascinating story.

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Experts predict that 95 percent of all South Korean households will be wired for broadband Internet by the year 2010. Ninety-four percent of Japanese homes will have broadband access, with Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia expected to be nearly 80 percent wired. By 2010, China will have replaced the US as the largest Internet market in the world.

Wow. I am thinking over the internet market and Search Engine’s servers. Tough competition and a strong growth with worst prices ever could be expected.