Here are five rather helpful google search tips and tricks to use while searching and using the google search engine.
1. Search for similar sites: Enter “related:” before the url of the site you’d like similar matches for, you could do the following search query related:www.google.com – this result would be a list of search engines similar to google.
2. Search a particular site: To search within the content of one particular site – use “site:” keyword. You can then search for articles relating to google within tutorialcadet.com – the query would be site:www.tutorialcadet.com google
3. Turn google into an mp3 search: By copying this string into google and substituting “Britney Spears” with the artist you’d like to search you’ll find repositories of mp3 files related to a particular artist: -inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(wma|mp3) “Britney Spears”
4. Google as a Currency converter: Ever need to calculate the exchange rate between a price and another currency simply use the following query, again substituting the price and currency short code for your own – 120 GBP to USD
5. Find out the time in any major city: Need to know the current time in new york? simply type the following “what time is it new york” – once more substituting “new york” with your given destination.