3 September 2008
Eric Rasmusen, erasmuse@indiana.edu
This file is now at http://www.rasmusen.org/a/google-rasmusen.htm
These notes are latest tips and tricks that I have found useful or
thought might be useful. I wrote these for my own use and have not tried
to make them clear for others, but some other people will find them
useful.
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Searching Google Scholar
Searching Books
Searching Blogs
Searching News
Special search FEATURES
of Google
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Calculator
5+2*2
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define protagonist
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pizza bedford indiana
(for locations and phone numbers)
pizza 47401
(for locations and phone numbers)
movies 47401
(for showtimes)
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The word "site" followed by a colon enables you to restrict your search
to a specific site.
admission site:stanford.edu
This would limit the search for "admission" to the stanford. edu site
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To use Google to find street maps, enter a U.S. street address,
including zip code or city/ state (e.g. 165 University Ave Palo Alto
CA), in the Google search box. Often, the street address and city name
will be enough.
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To see delays and weather conditions at a particular airport, type the
airport's three letter code followed by the word "airport." For example,
San Francisco International Airport updates can be found by searching
for "sfo airport."
To check the status of a U.S. flight, type the name of the airline
followed by the flight number. For example, to see the status for United
Airlines flight 134 search for "United 134."
weather palo alto, ca
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The query, link:siteURL,
shows you pages that point to that URL. For example, link:www.google.com
will show you pages that point to Google's home page.
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