Improve Your Search Experience
Continue of Part I………………
Here are some tips to use Google search:
4. To use Google’s built-in calculator
function, simply enter the calculation you’d like done into the search box.
Syntax: function(value) or any Expression
Example: sqrt(81)
5. Book Search
If you’re looking for results from Google Book Search, you can enter the name of
the author or book title into the search box. Then, click on “Books” from the
left-hand navigation to view book content. You can click through on the record to
view more detailed info about that author or title.
Example :
6. Public Data
To see trends for population and unemployment rates of U.S. states and counties,
type "population" or "unemployment rate" followed by a state or county. You can
click through to a page that lets you compare different locations.
Example :
7. Unit Conversion
You can use Google to convert between many different units of measurement of
height, weight, and volume among many others. Just enter your desired conversion
into the search box and we’ll do the rest.
Example : 10.5 cm in inches
or
8.People Profiles
If you’re looking for someone you just met or a long-lost friend, enter the name of
that person plus some identifying words about him or her to see a list of people
with that name.
Example :
9. Search The Contents with File type
Google can index the content of most types of pages and files. if you include filetype:suffix query. Google will restrict the results to pages whose names end in suffix.in your The most common file types index include:
- Adobe Flash (.swf)
- Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf)
- Adobe PostScript (.ps)
- Autodesk Design Web Format (.dwf)
- Google Earth (.kml, .kmz)
- GPS eXchange Format (.gpx)
- Hancom Hanword (.hwp)
- HTML (.htm, .html, other file extensions)
- Microsoft Excel (.xls, .xlsx)
- Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx)
- Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx)
- OpenOffice presentation (.odp)
- OpenOffice spreadsheet (.ods)
- OpenOffice text (.odt)
- Rich Text Format (.rtf, .wri)
- Scalable Vector Graphics (.svg)
- TeX/LaTeX (.tex)
- Text (.txt, .text, other file extensions), including source code in common programming languages:
- Basic source code (.bas)
- C/C++ source code (.c, .cc, .cpp, .cxx, .h, .hpp)
- C# source code (.cs)
- Java source code (.java)
- Perl source code (.pl)
- Python source code (.py)
- Wireless Markup Language (.wml, .wap)
- XML (.xml)
When you use the
filetype: operator in a Google search
e.g : Word 2003 filetype:ppt
Google searches for files with the .ppt (presentation) extension,
not for files of file type PPT.
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