Did you know Google Search can be used as a Calculator, World time, Flight Status checker or a Dictionary? These are some of the many things that you can do with a specific type of search in Google.
PCWizKid has put together a video with various quick tips and tricks on how to utilize Google to the fullest. There are many search features that can enhance your experience online. Watch the video for details.
Notes from video
Use Google as your:
- Online Dictionary with define:word
- Calculator for formulas and conversions
- World Time
- Local Movie Showtimes
- Search for Music files using:
-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:"index of" +"last modified" +"parent directory" +description +size +(wma|mp3) "title here"
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Sometimes when you don’t even know how to spell a word, Google and MS word come into play. This is what I usually do. Although the
best dictionary WordWeb has a suggestion capability but usually it doesn’t do a very good job.
Let’s take a look at spelling a word “Gentlemen” and I don’t know how to spell it and I spell it as “Gentalment”. In MS Word I can right click the word and it shows me the suggested correct spelling. To check the meaning of the world I can just press “Shift + F7” but usually this MS Word dictionary sucks. To check the meaning, I would suggest to use
WordWeb.
Another method is using the Google Search Engine (my preferable choice) but only if you have the access to the internet. It comes out something like below “Did you mean: gentlement’s”
When you click on it, it comes out the Wikipedia’s definition. However, I do not really like Wikipedia’s definition too. The explanation is just too long for me. So I would still prefer to use the
WordWeb to check the meaning.
So this is what I did to check a word spelling and it's meaning:
With Internet
- Google It
- WordWeb It
Witout Internet
- Winword it
- WordWeb it
p/s: Too bad the
OpenOffice does not have suggested word capability. I hope one day they will support it.
Btw, I don't think this is something new. I believe a lot of people have been doing this especially using the Google as dictionary.
Written by ChampDog on May 11th, 2008 with no comments.
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Recently
Yahoo introduced a structured web search which is said to be suitable for e-commerce application (e.g. online shopping). However, I can't test it out as it seems like they haven't implemented yet in their search engine. I wonder could it be something similar to the
Cluster Search Engine (Clusty). Could it be yahoo steal the concept from Clusty? Maybe something more advance than this?
So the first question you or I may ask, will Structured web Search by Yahoo can beat Google? I honestly don't know because I can't try. They just said it soon to be rolled out. If I want to give my best guess, I will say "No way, Structured Web Search by Yahoo cannot beat Google". Yes, that is only based on my feeling until I really try it out. Maybe I've already fallen in love with Google. Opss...
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Written by ChampDog on November 28th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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What search engine you're using right? Google or Yahoo? No need to say much, I bet most of you are using the Google search engine. Yes, I'm one of them.
Today I'm going to introduce you a new search engine that you may have never heard of it before. It is called Clusty. It was originally from Vivisimo company. It is a new way of searching the web. Instead of displaying a million of pages in a long list, Clusty uses a "cluster" concept to group meaningful pages together. Most importantly this cluster search engine helps you find result that you may have missed especially those results appears in the third or fourth pages of your Google or Yahoo search.
This is what you may want to do:
1. Search from Google but can't find what you want.
2. Try it out Clusty, it may hits.
Ok here come a sad news based on my personal experience, most of the case whatever I can't find in Google, I can't find it in Clusty too. Only just once in a while for certain keyword the Clusty gives me a better result than Google. Therefore, most of time I'm still using Goolge Search Engine. Why don't you experience it now? Perhaps you can share the results with me here? Doest Clusty find what you want?
Try Clusty Now! and let me know what you think.
Not to talk about the result, the cluster concept is very impressive. It could be next generation of search engine. Both Google and Yahoo will adopt it one day...
Written by ChampDog on November 28th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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