9 tips on google
Smarter search in Google 1
If you get too many results, try limiting to a certain filetype.
You can do so by adding "filetype:xxx" where xxx is the extension of the filetype.
For example, if you look for acadmic/official data it is often published in PDF files. Therefore, if you were looking for something about dogs, you should type:
dogs filetype:pdf
Using tilde sign (~) in google
Using tilde extends your search to similar words as well. Very useful when you know there are several words that describe what you're looking for.
For example, if you'll search for "~movie", you will get results which use words similar to movie - such as "film", "video", "DVD", and so on. Try it!
Creativity boost with image search
Image searching tools - such as Google Images or Flickr - are great tools for getting your creative process going. Just enter some related term in the search field to get the related images on the screen. Browsing through the images will bring up various associations to your mind, which may help you getting on the right track.
Checking your english with Google
If you want to use a certain expression, but you are not sure you're using it correctly in the context of what you're writing, just put it in the google search, inside quotation marks.
In the results you will see how other people are using this expression, and it will probably help you decide if you were correct.
Use google cache to browse dead links
You have probably already seen and used the 'cache' link on the google results list. It's useful to get information from pages that do not exist anymore.
But actually, you can often use google's cache to retrieve information from any broken link. Just enter the following string in the google search box:
cache:"broken link"
And hope that google still have the page in their cache.
Submit your site to Search Engines
Use the following links to submit your site to Search Engines:
Google [ http://www.google.com/addurl.html ]
Yahoo! [ http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html ]
MSN [ http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx ]
Open Directory Project [ http://dmoz.org/add.html ]
Rex [ http://rex.skyline.net/add/ ]
Infotiger [ http://www.infotiger.com/addurl.html ]
Netsearch Voyager [ http://www.netsearch.org/addurl.html ]
ExactSeek [ http://www.exactseek.com/add.html ]
LinkCentre [ http://linkcentre.com/addurl.html ]
TrueSearch [ http://www.truesearch.com/addurl/ ]
WhatsNu [ http://www.whatsnu.com/cgi-bin/addlink.cgi ]
Walhello.com [ http://www.walhello.com/addlinkgl.html ]
Dirs.org [ http://www.websbiggest.com/dirorder.cfm ]
Wisenut [ http://www.wisenut.com/submit.html ]
Getting word definitions with Google
Every time you do a search in Google, all the keywords appear on top of the results, on the right side of the screen. Note that they are all underlined.
If you click any of these - you'll get to the definition of the word answers.com!
Disposable GMail addresses
GMail supports creating unlimited number of email addresses from a single account - if your gmail is "someone@gmail.com" then all the emails sent to "someone+something@gmail.com" will also go into your inbox.
The advantage is that you can filter the emails based on the "to" field. So the next time you register at some site just enter a disposable address, and if it turns out to be spam - just filter it out!
Quickly find Wikipedia articles
Here's a quick way I've recently found to quickly find Wikipedia articles using google.
Just enter the term you want to read about in the google search box, and add the word 'wiki' to the list of the search terms. The
first result will usually be the article you're looking for!
For example, to find the Wikipedia article on "Coca Cola", just type in "coca cola wiki".
