Using Google Search Tips

To match a fraise exactly, you use double quotes (") around it like "this", and google will search specifically for that fraise. Ex: "Mount Everest", "German Sheperds"

Dashes are also able to do the same thing as double quotes, or the minus sign (-). You simply need to put it between what your looking for. Ex: Burning-Sun, Northern-Star

To exculde terms from what you're searching for, use a minus sign (-) and whatever word you wish to exclude to be put after it, unlike what we used from before. Ex: Cow -pigs, Spiders -webs

When you search for information on Google, it will automatically correct the word you spell if it looks wrong/is wrong. For example, rde (red) would automatically be corrected to red. Ex: rde=red, bl ue=blue

However, if you spelled a word that was supposed to remain as it is, say 'rde' was an actual word, you would put a plus sign in front of it, that tells the computer to not do anything with it. Ex: +rde, +geern (Note, not actual words.)

You could also type in the number of a package to track it. Ex: 2Z126X90100, 8Z000X00000

You could type in flight numbers. Ex: American flight 2005, American flight 9985

You could also see what time it was in different places of the world. Ex: Time in China, Time in England.

You could use it as a calculator. Ex: .05 * 105 = 5.25, or even logarithms, like log(5.0) = 0.698970004.

You could also use it to search for definitions, with define: (Whatever word you're looking for). Ex: define: squash
You could also type in a multi-word fraise, and the browser will ask whether you wish to find the definition, or provide a link to the said word/fraise. Ex: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

You could use to see the currency conversion. Ex: 10 U.S dollars is 894.694462 in yen. 10 Canadian dollars is 833.436521 in yen.

You could easily find documents/ppts/etc easily by writing down what you're searching for, space, filetype: (Whatever type of file you're looking for.) Ex: World War I filetype:ppt (Powerpoint) or World War II filetype:doc (Document).

You write down a question in the form of an answer. By using * for the answer, google automatically puts the answer down for it, or the fill-in-the-blank feature. Ex: Mount Everest is * feet high, or a shark is * feet long.

When you're searching for something, putting a number range will make it easier to, say, search for something not too expensive or not too cheap to buy. Ex: TV $100...$200 means it will search for a TV priced between $100-$200.
Not just limited to just money though. You could use this to limit measurements as well. Ex: Mount Everest base camp 10000...20000. This would help located Mount Everest's base camp that's somewhere between 10000-20000ft high, as we don't need to know how high Mount Everst is to find the base camp.

You could use google to find a movie that's showing somewhere in your area, in theaters. To do so you must put down the name of the movie along with your zip code. Ex: Avatar K22 L893, or Wall-E 36P E456. Note, these zip codes aren't real.

By using a site:, we can find information regarding whatever website (without the www in front of it) we put down after it, and only that website. Ex: video cards site:dl.tv, which means whatever we're searching for will only have information coming from that site only. If you put the 'www' in front of the site, it would limit the sites to select from to get information, as the 'www' asks specifically for this site.
You could also type site:(domain) in order to get information from a certain grouping. Ex: site:gov mortgages to find out what the government thinks about the mortgages.

This new knowledge will help me use Google better in the future, as no doubt I will have to find difficult and specific pieces of information. By learning how to use Google more efficient, I can spend less time finding these pieces of information and the information itself will be more accurate.