tips on google search

Some tips on about Google search

General tips on google search• Start by a simple name or word.• Ignore spelling.• Use web friendly words(head hurts -

headache).• Case insensitive.• Punctuation ignores.

Search with an exact phrase

Put quotation marks around words "[any word]" to search for an exact phrase in an exact order.

Eg: “University of Ceylon”P.S. : searching with quotes might exclude relevant results

Examine public data

Data directly from the country.

demographic terms <Country>

Eg:Population Sri Lanka

Get definitions

Put define: in front of any word to get its definition.

Eg: define : girl

Search within a specific site

Eg: Roshan G. site:pdn.ac.lk

<Search Item> site: <site url>

Search by file type

Eg:Filetype:pdf water

Info:<site url>

• Use info keyword to get information about a website.

Info

Search for Number range

Operator: ..

Eg: laptop 30000..50000 laptop..30000

Asterisk (* operator)

• Use an asterisk within a query for any unknown term.

Eg: “university of *”

Ignoring Search Results

Eg: Sri Lanka -Government

•To ignore specific results

Related Keywords

•Add “~” to any keyword to get related keywords in your search.

Eg: ~prince

Find related pages• Use the related: operator to find pages

that have similar content.Eg: related:pdn.ac.lk

Web history

•Web History offers you a log of websites you've visited.

www.google.com/history

Some other services

Weather Use Google to retrieve weather

related information of a city.

Eg: weather in Kandy

Time

To get the local time.Eg:time Kandy.

Conversion

To convert one unit to another.

Eg: 100km to miles

Calculate anything

Eg: 100*3.14-cos(83)=

Flight Information

<flight number>Eg: SG 873

• To get the flight info for a flight

Get currency conversions• Convert the currency.

Eg:usd in lkr