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

MAIN GOOGLE

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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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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