Useful hints for google seach

1. Hints for effective
google search
By
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(auoracs.lk)
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2. Overview
Some of the features are available
through settings or tools menu
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3. If you’re looking for an exact phrase, use
quotation marks around the phrase.
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4. If you are interested of pages of particular
languages only, use advanced search ->
language option
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5. If you are looking for a result from a particular
domain/site, use advanced search -> site or
domain option
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6. If you know the file type of your interested
content, use advanced search -> file type
option
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7. If you know like to see more latest
information or forum posts etc., use
advanced search -> last update option
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8. If you have an public image and looking for
similar image or different size/quality of same
image use search by image option in google
image search..
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9. If you did a search and go to a site/page, but
now can not remember the site URL or exact
search terms, you may use goole search
history (This works when you have use
google logged in to the google account)..
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10. To use google as a simple dictionary
search “define <<word>>”
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11. To translate from one language to
another type “translate ‘<<sentence>>’
<<language>>”
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Note: If you want to listen click on the speaker icon near the translated sentence.

12. Use google search as a simple
calculator
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13. To check weather search for the
“<<city>> weather”
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14. To check current date/time search
“time”
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Caution: May not work properly, if you are behind a proxy server.

15. To find your public IP address type “my
ip address”
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16. Bonus: If you have a web site and like
to know which sites have links to your
site, type “link:<<your site URL>>”
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18. Thank You !
Presented by
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19. "We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act,
but a habit."
~ Aristotle.
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20. For more resources visit;
http://www.slideshare.net/auroracslk
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21. Contact Information
Premier Study Center
Aurora Computer Studies,
Summerset College,
# 135, 3rd Floor,
DFCC Building,
High Level Road,
Maharagama.
0115 690 290
City Study Center
Aurora Computer Studies,
Summerset College,
# 88/2, 2nd Floor,
BOC Building,
High Level Road,
Kirulapone, Colombo 06
0703 001 010
For further details and enquiries :
Call - 0719 842030
E-mail – info@auroracs.lk
Web - www.auroracs.lk
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