You Just Thought You Knew How to Google
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Basic rule: Google searches are…
… limited to ten words
… case insensitive
… punctuation insensitive
Stop words: Google generally ignores words like…
… http://www.link-assistant.com/seo-stop-words.html
Operators (http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html)
… plus sign (+)
austin+restaurant
… minus sign (-)
austin+restaurant – thai - cuban
… wildcard (*)
nicholas sparks wrote *
… tilde (~)
~cheap
… quotations (“…”) “i have a dream”
… OR (all caps)
sb OR senate bill
sb1 + texas OR “senate bill 1” + texas
Google Calculator (http://www.googleguide.com/help/calculator.html)
4+6
17-9
sqrt 81
Unit Conversions (unit to unit) 4 tbsp to cups
6 miles to km
500 oz to grams
Sounds like… sounds like puppernickel; fasad
Weather (weather location)
weather austin texas
Sunrise, sunset (sunrise location) (sunset location) sunset honolulu hawaii
Time (time location)
time dubai
Area Code and phone number 254-399-8034
Flight status (flight airline flt#)
flight american 2040
Definitions (define keyword)
define googol
Stocks (stock ticker symbol)
AAPL
Locations (place location or place zip code) Pappadeaux Houston or Sonic 77040
Maps (map location or map zip code) map san francisco or map 76638
Movies (movies location or movies zip code) movies waco texas or movies 76712
Health conditions and medications (condition or medication)
epilepsy
tegretol
Public information (keyword location) population houston texas
unemployment dallas
Left navigation menu options including Advanced Search
Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com)
Google Image
I’m feeling lucky/I’m feeling trendy
Google Alerts