Friday, June 12, 2009

Google Search Tips

There is plenty of little shortcuts we could produce better search results via Google.

Dictionary search
Syntax= define:
Type define: constituency for example.


Unit Conversion
Examples:
10 EUR in GBP
25 miles in km

Weather report:
tokyo weather
london weather

Search on a particular website
Syntax= site:
transformers site: www.imdb.com

Find related site
related: msdn.microsoft.com

Find pages that has links to a specific site
link:http://www.bbcnews.co.uk

Display a cache version of your website by Google
cache:www.zippie.net

Find Info about a page
info:www.fgsman.org.uk

Google group search
author:Mark Russinovich insubject:"process debugging"

Find word widgets but has to contains red or blue keyword
widgets (red OR blue)

Return results based on specific file type
intitle:j2ee visual tutorial filetype:pdf
service oriented architecture filetype:pdf site:edu

Search all words in title
allintitle: msdn .net framework 4

Search any words contains 2009 in url
intitle:msdn .net inurl:2009

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