Travel and Transportation
Travelers and those who want to learn more about their city can use these Google tips and tools.
1. Google Earth: Ditch the compass and use this app to find your away around a new city. You can even track your flight status.
2. GOOG 411: Look up local businesses, restaurants and more with this tool.
3. Google Maps: Find addresses, get recommendations for local hotspots, and explore a new city or state.
4. Translate: If you’re traveling internationally, use this tool to translate menus, conversations and more.
5. Mobile Maps: Using Mobile Maps, you can view maps, get directions and find local information easier and faster.
6. Currency Converter: Check currency rates and conversions with this mobile-friendly tool.
7. Area Code Map: Get areas codes with this shortcut.
8. FAA Airplane Registration Numbers: Get an airplane’s history and description by searching its FAA airplane registration number.
9. Flight Status/Flight Tracker: Subscribe to this shortcut to get flight tracking information.
10. Gchart: Find out what time it is anywhere in the world using Gchart.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
GOOGLE AND YOUR BUSINESS RELATED SEARCH
Business and Work
When you want to save time on meetings, organize your files and cut down on wasted time during the week, use these tools.
1. Google Pack: Use Google Pack as a free solution to a desktop organizer, notifier, 3d model maker and more.
2. Archive your e-mails: Use this simple system to keep your e-mails safe and organized without having to waste time with hard files.
3. E-mail encryption: Google helps you send encrypted messages to your business associates with this system.
4. Google Video: Avoid lengthy meetings by hosting web conferences with Google Video–a safe, private feature.
5. Google Checkout: Cut out the middle man when you use this online shopping app for your site.
6. Finance: Use Google Finance to quickly catch up on the stock market and all other finance news that will affect your business in the blink of an eye.
7. Knol: Knol is a Google app that lets business professionals and other experts share their knowledge online and network with other members.
8. Calendar: Keep all of your to-do lists and appointments straight in one spot with Google Calendar.
9. SketchUp: Architects, web designers and other professionals can use this tool to create 3D models online.
10. Sites: Use this feature to give you a head start on creating a website for your business, which can save you time with marketing, networking, selling products and more.
When you want to save time on meetings, organize your files and cut down on wasted time during the week, use these tools.
1. Google Pack: Use Google Pack as a free solution to a desktop organizer, notifier, 3d model maker and more.
2. Archive your e-mails: Use this simple system to keep your e-mails safe and organized without having to waste time with hard files.
3. E-mail encryption: Google helps you send encrypted messages to your business associates with this system.
4. Google Video: Avoid lengthy meetings by hosting web conferences with Google Video–a safe, private feature.
5. Google Checkout: Cut out the middle man when you use this online shopping app for your site.
6. Finance: Use Google Finance to quickly catch up on the stock market and all other finance news that will affect your business in the blink of an eye.
7. Knol: Knol is a Google app that lets business professionals and other experts share their knowledge online and network with other members.
8. Calendar: Keep all of your to-do lists and appointments straight in one spot with Google Calendar.
9. SketchUp: Architects, web designers and other professionals can use this tool to create 3D models online.
10. Sites: Use this feature to give you a head start on creating a website for your business, which can save you time with marketing, networking, selling products and more.
GOOGLE AND YOUR EDUCATION RELATED SEARCH
Teachers and students can benefit from these time-saving tools and hacks for research, project collaboration and more.
1. Geo Education: Forget field trips to the museum or planetarium. Use Geo Education to quickly zap your kids into outer space or around the world with this set of tools.
2. iGoogle: Set up your own homepage for your classroom, or if you’re a student, customize your iGoogle page to include helpful study resources, news updates and more.
3. Custom Search Engine: Save time during your searches by limiting the kinds of sites, the display and more for your search.
4. Google Notebook/Google Docs: Use this simple, remote access text document for taking notes, recording class information and more.
5. Google Groups: Set up a study group or help your students organize their own group projects with this feature.
6. Page Creator: Use Page Creator to set up an attractive, easy-to-access web page for students, parents and more.
7. News: Quickly pull news stories off the Internet with this feature.
8. Book Search: Using Book Search, you can quickly find full text books, excerpts, nonfiction texts and more.
9. Google Scholar: Students and teachers can use this search engine when they need quality, authoritative information for lectures, research projects and papers.
10. Patent Search: Use Patent Search to search over 7 million patents, images and more.
1. Geo Education: Forget field trips to the museum or planetarium. Use Geo Education to quickly zap your kids into outer space or around the world with this set of tools.
2. iGoogle: Set up your own homepage for your classroom, or if you’re a student, customize your iGoogle page to include helpful study resources, news updates and more.
3. Custom Search Engine: Save time during your searches by limiting the kinds of sites, the display and more for your search.
4. Google Notebook/Google Docs: Use this simple, remote access text document for taking notes, recording class information and more.
5. Google Groups: Set up a study group or help your students organize their own group projects with this feature.
6. Page Creator: Use Page Creator to set up an attractive, easy-to-access web page for students, parents and more.
7. News: Quickly pull news stories off the Internet with this feature.
8. Book Search: Using Book Search, you can quickly find full text books, excerpts, nonfiction texts and more.
9. Google Scholar: Students and teachers can use this search engine when they need quality, authoritative information for lectures, research projects and papers.
10. Patent Search: Use Patent Search to search over 7 million patents, images and more.
Ten Tricks to Using Google You Probably Don't Know
You may have mastered some of the basic tricks of Google, but most people use only about 3 percent of this search engine’s available power.
Some of the obscure but very useful Google Web search tricks. Some of these are really amazing, and that is why Google is favourite search engine.
10. Get Local Time: Type in What time is it followed by any city to get the current time.
9. Track Flight Status: Enter the airline and flight number to find out the departure time and estimated arrival for any flight.
8. Convert Currency, Metrics, Bytes and More: Google has a built-in converter calculator. You can enter quarter cup in teaspoons, seconds in a year, 5 US dollars in Euros and countless others.
7. Search for Pages That are “Better Than,” “Similar to,” or “Reminds me of”: Enter “better than keyword” or “similar to keyword” to find Web pages you never knew existed.
6. Use Google as a Free Proxy: Enter cache:website.com to view a Web page that’s been blocked from the computer you’re using.
5. Remove Affiliate Links From Product Searches: To avoid seeing search results from certain sites, enter –site:website.com.
4. Find Related Items: Enter ~ before any search term to find related items as well.
3. Find Music and Comic Books: Enter -inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:"index of" +"last modified" +"parent directory" +description +size +(wma|mp3) "Band or comic book name" to find music files and comic books.
2. See Images of People, Objects, Etc.: Type in a search term, and click on images to see photos of the results.
1. Search for Faces: If you’re looking for a photo of a person named Rose, and don’t want to see photos of the flower, add &imgtype=face to the end of your image search. It will show you only images of faces.
Some of the obscure but very useful Google Web search tricks. Some of these are really amazing, and that is why Google is favourite search engine.
10. Get Local Time: Type in What time is it followed by any city to get the current time.
9. Track Flight Status: Enter the airline and flight number to find out the departure time and estimated arrival for any flight.
8. Convert Currency, Metrics, Bytes and More: Google has a built-in converter calculator. You can enter quarter cup in teaspoons, seconds in a year, 5 US dollars in Euros and countless others.
7. Search for Pages That are “Better Than,” “Similar to,” or “Reminds me of”: Enter “better than keyword” or “similar to keyword” to find Web pages you never knew existed.
6. Use Google as a Free Proxy: Enter cache:website.com to view a Web page that’s been blocked from the computer you’re using.
5. Remove Affiliate Links From Product Searches: To avoid seeing search results from certain sites, enter –site:website.com.
4. Find Related Items: Enter ~ before any search term to find related items as well.
3. Find Music and Comic Books: Enter -inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:"index of" +"last modified" +"parent directory" +description +size +(wma|mp3) "Band or comic book name" to find music files and comic books.
2. See Images of People, Objects, Etc.: Type in a search term, and click on images to see photos of the results.
1. Search for Faces: If you’re looking for a photo of a person named Rose, and don’t want to see photos of the flower, add &imgtype=face to the end of your image search. It will show you only images of faces.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks
When it comes to the Google search box, you already know the tricks: finding exact phrases matches using quotes like "so say we all" or searching a single site using site:lifehacker.com gmail. But there are many more oblique, clever, and lesser-known search recipes and operators that work from that unassuming little input box. Dozens of Google search guides detail the tips you already know, but today we're skipping the obvious and highlighting our favorite obscure Google web search tricks.
10. Get the local time anywhere
What time is it in Bangkok right now? Ask Google. Enter simply what time is it to get the local time in big cities around the world, or add the locale at the end of your query, like what time is it hong kong to get the local time there. 9. Track flight status
Enter the airline and flight number into the Google search box and get back the arrival and departure times right inside Google's search results. 8. Convert currency, metrics, bytes, and more
Google's powerful built-in converter calculator can help you out whether you're cooking dinner, traveling abroad, or building a PC. Find out how many teaspoons are in a quarter cup (quarter cup in teaspoons) or how many seconds there are in a year (seconds in a year) or how many euros there are to five dollars (5 USD in Euro). For the geekier set, bits in kilobytes (155473 bytes in kilobytes) and numbers in hex or binary (19 in binary) are also pretty useful. 7. Compare items with "better than" and find similar items with "reminds me of"
Reader Adam taps the wisdom of the crowds by searching for like items using key phrases. He writes in: Simply search for, in quotes: "better than _keyword_"Some example results:
Results 1 - 100 of about 550 English pages for " better than WinAmp".
Results 1 - 57 of 57 English pages for " better than mIRC".Results 1 - 100 of about 17,500 English pages for " better than Digg". (Wow. Poor Digg.)
The results will almost always lead you to discovering alternatives to whatever it is you're searching for. Using the same concept, you can use this trick to discover new music or movies. For example, " reminds me of _someband_" or "sounds like _someband_" will pull up artists people have thought sounded similar to the one you typed in. This is also a great way to find good, no-name musicians you'd probably never know of otherwise.
Examples:
Results 1 - 88 of 88 English pages for " reminds me of Metallica".
Results 1 - 36 of 36 English pages for " similar to Garden State".
Results 1 - 66 of 66 English pages for " sounds like The Shins".Just get creative and you'll, without a doubt, find cool new stuff you probably never knew existed.
6. Use Google as a free proxy
What, your company blocks that hip new web site just because it drops the F bomb occasionally? Use Google's cache to take a peek even when the originating site's being blocked, with cache:example.com. 5. Remove affiliate links from product searches
When you're sick of seeing duplicate product search results from the likes of eBay, Bizrate, Pricerunner, and Shopping.com, clear 'em out by stacking up the-site:ebay.com -site:bizrate.com -site:shopping.com operator. Alternately, check out Give Me Back My Google (original post), a service that does all that known reseller cleaning up for you when you search for products. Compare this GMBMG search for a Cruzer 1GB flash drive to the regular Google results. 4. Find related terms and documents
Ok, this one's direct from any straight-up advanced search operator cheat sheet, but it's still one of the lesser-used tricks in the book. Adding a tilde (~) to a search term will return related terms. For example, Googling ~nutrition returns results with the words nutrition, food, and health in them. 3. Find music and comic books
Using a combination of advanced search operators that specify music files available in an Apache directory listing, you can turn Google into your personal Napster. Go ahead, try this search for Nirvana tracks: -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. 2. ID people, objects, and foreign language words and phrases with Google Image Search
Google Image search results show you instead of tell you about a word. Don't know what jicama looks like? Not sure if the person named "Priti" who you're emailing with is a woman or a man? Spanish rusty and you forgot what "corazon" is? Pop your term into Google Image Search (or type image jicama into the regular search box) to see what your term's about. 1. Make Google recognize faces
If you're doing an image search for Paris Hilton and don't want any of the French city, a special URL parameter in Google's Image search will do the trick. Add &imgtype=face to the end of your image search to just get images of faces, without any inanimate objects. Try it out with a search for rose (which returns many photos of flowers) versus rose with the face parameter.
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