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Google Tips, What Many People Do Not Know About Google

You can use Google:

As a nice and handy Calculator: Enter any formula like this "(500 X 4000) + 600 * sqrt(525)", hit search and you will get the answer 2 013 747.73. Notice that you can use:

1. Arithmetic operators like + addition, - subtraction,* multiplication, / division, ^ exponentiation (raise to a power of), % modulo (finds the remainder after division), choose (X choose Y determines the number of ways of choosing a set of Y elements from a set of X elements) and th root of (calculates the nth root of a number).
2. Functions like sqrt , trigonometric functions (sin, cos, etc.), ln (logarithm base) and log (logarithm base 10).
3. Some operators that come after the number (like ! (Factorial)).
4. Brackets.

As a Unit Converter: For example, if you are reading a car specs and it says that the maximum speed is 200 miles/hour, you want to convert that into Kilometers, simply type "200 miles in kilometers", hit search, and you will get the answer: 200 miles = 321.8688 kilometers.

As a Currency Converter: Try "1000 USD in Euros" hit search and you will get something like: 1 000 U.S. dollars = 743.936914 Euros. The beauty of this Currency Converter -beside the automatic currency rate updates- is that you can use it even if you do not know the currency of a specified country. Try "1000 USD in UAE money" hit search and you will get something like: 1 000 U.S. dollars = 3 672.20435 United Arab Emirates dirhams or even "currency of India in Swedish money" and you will get something like: 1 Indian rupee = 0.17102521 Swedish kronor.

To see a Weather Conditions: Now and a four-day forecast for a particular worldwide location. Try "weather Tunis, Tunisia" (weather + country + city) and you will get the weather conditions of Tunisia or "weather Athens" (weather + city) and you will get the weather conditions of Athens.

To see a definition for a word or phrase: Start your search with the word define, type "define php" and you will get: The PHP Hypertext Preprocessor is a programming language that allows web developers to...

For Q&A: Try typing "the area of London" and you will get: Area 1,579 (609 SQ MI) or "the birth rate of Germany" and you will get something like: Birth Rate: 8.2 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).

To find a map: For a specified address in the US, type the address and hit Search.

To Find Stock and Fund Quotes: try typing "MSFT", hit search and you will get stock and mutual fund quotes of MICROSOFT CORPORATION. You can even click on the links in the result to get more finance information.

In addition to what I have mentioned above, there are many Operators that you can add to Google search to modify your search in some way. I'll show you the most useful ones, don't use a space between the operator and the word (operator:word)

1. site: To search for words in specified site. This operator is very helpful when you want to search something in a site that does not have a search option. Try "site:www.tutorialsroom.com Photoshop " and you will get all the pages that has the word Photoshop in the www.tutorialsroom.com site. Notice that typing site:www.tutorialsroom.com without any additional words will return all the indexed pages of the site (all the pages that Google know about).
2. inurl: Google will restrict the results to the documents that have the specified word in the url, try "inurl:loans cars " and you will get all the documents that have loans in the url and the word car anywhere in the document.
3. allinurl: the same like the above but Google will restrict the results to the documents that have all the words that come after the allinurl in their urls, try "allinurl:real state" and you will get all the documents that have both real and state in the url.
4. intitle: Google will restrict the results to the document that have the given word in the title, try "intitle:pets cats" to get all the documents that have the word pets in the title and cats anywhere in the document.
5. allintitle: The same like the above but Google will return the documents that have all the words in the title so "allintitle: pets cats" will return the documents that have both the words pets and cats in the title.
6. filetype: To get a certain file type documents, try "filetype:pdf car loan" and you will get all the pdf files that have the words car loan somewhere in them and you can click View as HTML to make Google display the pdf file as html page if you don't have a pdf reader.
7. allinanchor: To get the documents that have the specified words as an anchor text for a url , try "allinanchor:tutorialsroom" and you'll get all the pages that have tutorialsroom in the anchor text linking to a page.

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