1. Different Types of Files at your will
How
many times would you have asked for materials (PDF, PPT, DOC) for a
particular topic from a friend? Its almost everyday that we might have
the necessity to ask them either for knowledge, preparing a
presentation, white-paper or for case studies. Such times it mostly
difficult to look out what to exactly search for because most of the
times you don’t know about the topic at hand. But this petty keyword
unleashes its lethal power at such occasions.
Let’s say I want to
implement a case study on SOA which means I have to read a lot of
information for SOA. So I just have to find materials which might have
already been uploaded on the web in the form of PDF’s, DOC’s or PPT’s.
These materials can be easily obtained by doing a search for:
• PDF - service oriented architecture filetype:pdf
2. Scholarly Search
If
you want some authenticity of the materials then it would be better to
find the materials from educational institutes or universities. For
this use the Google scholar search. But suppose you don’t like to
switch to Google scholar search you can add the same query with an
additional parameter to the normal Google search box,
• service oriented architecture filetype:pdf site:edu
3. Meanings of any word in an instant
Now
you do not have to carry a dictionary or install a dictionary software
just for the purpose of finding out a meaning of a word. With the
wealth of information in Google’s hands, its a piece of cake to find
out the meaning of the word. Just use the define: keyword. The meaning
would of course be displayed but also a set of other links which might
have an alternative definition are also given out with the link to read
more about it.
• define:beureaucracy
You
would argue here that, a dicitionary gives out more information than
this. But what about words that don’t actually fall within the
vocabulary. Suppose you want to know what SOA (Service Oriented
Architecture) is then you would have no choice. Google Search comes to
your rescue in this case,
• Abbreviations - define: SOA
• Jargons - define: Web 2.0
4. Find the time of any location
Many
of us might be probably working for client which are based at different
locations. And communication has to be carried out frequently carried
out in such cases. But before a communication you have to know which
time zone the location is falling into otherwise you would be causing a
disturbance.
I have seen people installing time zone software for
showing the time of the location they would be calling to. But with
Google at your hands you don’t have to install any software. It would
be just simple to use a query for finding the current time such as,
• time new york
psst….look closely the time on the little clock graphic. It also shows the perfect time!
5. Weather at your fingertips
I
had been to GOA for a Christmas vacation in the last week of December.
But I made a mistake of not finding out the temperature of GOA before
leaving. Had I known that it is hot even in the winter I would not have
made the mistake of carrying additional luggage consisting of blankets
and jackets.
If you are thinking to visit a place it is useful to
know what the temperature of the place is before hand, it can make
efficient packing. Google helps you here too. Just use this query
without asking anybody or waiting for the news to make a weather
report. I wish I had thought of this!
• goa weather
6. Google does live commentary too!
Indians
are cricket fanatics. But its amusing to see the organizations here
trying to put together tactics to devoid cricket lovers from wasting
time to watch the cricket scores instead of doing their work. What I
think they fail to understand is that by blocking the live cricket
scoring sites they are actually making the employees more curios and
provoking them to hunt for proxy networks or listen to the radio or
chat with their friends elsewhere.
Jokes apart, you actually don’t
need proxy networks to view the live cricket scores if you at least
have access to Google. If you want to find the latest info about all
the cricket matches then just type,
• cricket
But if you want to find out only about a particular match then use only the names of the two playing nations,
• India Australia
Remember that the scorecard will come only when the play is going on.
7. Calculate with your browser
Every
OS has a calculator inbuilt but when the browser is the thing which is
constantly open whey bother to open up a calculator. Open Google and
straight away type your mathematical expression. You can go all the way
from basic arithmetic to trigonometrical expressions. This is simply
amazing stuff accomplished by Google.
• 26 * 9000
• sin(90) / cos (90)
8. Compare your currency with others
Now
that the dollar is declining, the rest of the world must be busy trying
to check the impact of the dollar on their currencies. But first of all
one must know how much a particular currency amounts to when cashed in
another currency. Google’s inbuilt currency converter just does this.
• 1 USD in INR
• 1 EUR in INR
9. Keep track of the stocks
With
the booming stock market it is very important to track the stocks on a
day to day basis. Putting a stock ticker in the search box is the most
obvious thing you would think of. But it is not always you would
remember the stock ticker, you should add the keyword “stocks:” to the
company name.
The best part of the obtained result is that it
provides a chart which shows the trend in the company’s stock along
with important statistics.
• stocks: INFY
Note: Currently the results are restricted to the companies listed in the US stock markets.
10. Wanna find some faces?
This
is most interesting trick. You might be needing images for various
occasions and searching for images is the most difficult thing because
what we expect might not be possibly mapped to a query. But Google has
a parameter in place for images in situations we need an image which
describes a face.
Suppose I search for the term “happy” then the
Google results page displays smileys. But I would like to use images of
happy people. Even if I choose the term as “happy face” the results
don’t show images which contain people. For this there is a parameter
“imgtype” which you can use with the URL. For this put in the URL as
follows:
• http://images.google.co.in/images?q=happy&imgtype=face
How
many times would you have asked for materials (PDF, PPT, DOC) for a
particular topic from a friend? Its almost everyday that we might have
the necessity to ask them either for knowledge, preparing a
presentation, white-paper or for case studies. Such times it mostly
difficult to look out what to exactly search for because most of the
times you don’t know about the topic at hand. But this petty keyword
unleashes its lethal power at such occasions.
Let’s say I want to
implement a case study on SOA which means I have to read a lot of
information for SOA. So I just have to find materials which might have
already been uploaded on the web in the form of PDF’s, DOC’s or PPT’s.
These materials can be easily obtained by doing a search for:
• PDF - service oriented architecture filetype:pdf
2. Scholarly Search
If
you want some authenticity of the materials then it would be better to
find the materials from educational institutes or universities. For
this use the Google scholar search. But suppose you don’t like to
switch to Google scholar search you can add the same query with an
additional parameter to the normal Google search box,
• service oriented architecture filetype:pdf site:edu
3. Meanings of any word in an instant
Now
you do not have to carry a dictionary or install a dictionary software
just for the purpose of finding out a meaning of a word. With the
wealth of information in Google’s hands, its a piece of cake to find
out the meaning of the word. Just use the define: keyword. The meaning
would of course be displayed but also a set of other links which might
have an alternative definition are also given out with the link to read
more about it.
• define:beureaucracy
You
would argue here that, a dicitionary gives out more information than
this. But what about words that don’t actually fall within the
vocabulary. Suppose you want to know what SOA (Service Oriented
Architecture) is then you would have no choice. Google Search comes to
your rescue in this case,
• Abbreviations - define: SOA
• Jargons - define: Web 2.0
4. Find the time of any location
Many
of us might be probably working for client which are based at different
locations. And communication has to be carried out frequently carried
out in such cases. But before a communication you have to know which
time zone the location is falling into otherwise you would be causing a
disturbance.
I have seen people installing time zone software for
showing the time of the location they would be calling to. But with
Google at your hands you don’t have to install any software. It would
be just simple to use a query for finding the current time such as,
• time new york
psst….look closely the time on the little clock graphic. It also shows the perfect time!
5. Weather at your fingertips
I
had been to GOA for a Christmas vacation in the last week of December.
But I made a mistake of not finding out the temperature of GOA before
leaving. Had I known that it is hot even in the winter I would not have
made the mistake of carrying additional luggage consisting of blankets
and jackets.
If you are thinking to visit a place it is useful to
know what the temperature of the place is before hand, it can make
efficient packing. Google helps you here too. Just use this query
without asking anybody or waiting for the news to make a weather
report. I wish I had thought of this!
• goa weather
6. Google does live commentary too!
Indians
are cricket fanatics. But its amusing to see the organizations here
trying to put together tactics to devoid cricket lovers from wasting
time to watch the cricket scores instead of doing their work. What I
think they fail to understand is that by blocking the live cricket
scoring sites they are actually making the employees more curios and
provoking them to hunt for proxy networks or listen to the radio or
chat with their friends elsewhere.
Jokes apart, you actually don’t
need proxy networks to view the live cricket scores if you at least
have access to Google. If you want to find the latest info about all
the cricket matches then just type,
• cricket
But if you want to find out only about a particular match then use only the names of the two playing nations,
• India Australia
Remember that the scorecard will come only when the play is going on.
7. Calculate with your browser
Every
OS has a calculator inbuilt but when the browser is the thing which is
constantly open whey bother to open up a calculator. Open Google and
straight away type your mathematical expression. You can go all the way
from basic arithmetic to trigonometrical expressions. This is simply
amazing stuff accomplished by Google.
• 26 * 9000
• sin(90) / cos (90)
8. Compare your currency with others
Now
that the dollar is declining, the rest of the world must be busy trying
to check the impact of the dollar on their currencies. But first of all
one must know how much a particular currency amounts to when cashed in
another currency. Google’s inbuilt currency converter just does this.
• 1 USD in INR
• 1 EUR in INR
9. Keep track of the stocks
With
the booming stock market it is very important to track the stocks on a
day to day basis. Putting a stock ticker in the search box is the most
obvious thing you would think of. But it is not always you would
remember the stock ticker, you should add the keyword “stocks:” to the
company name.
The best part of the obtained result is that it
provides a chart which shows the trend in the company’s stock along
with important statistics.
• stocks: INFY
Note: Currently the results are restricted to the companies listed in the US stock markets.
10. Wanna find some faces?
This
is most interesting trick. You might be needing images for various
occasions and searching for images is the most difficult thing because
what we expect might not be possibly mapped to a query. But Google has
a parameter in place for images in situations we need an image which
describes a face.
Suppose I search for the term “happy” then the
Google results page displays smileys. But I would like to use images of
happy people. Even if I choose the term as “happy face” the results
don’t show images which contain people. For this there is a parameter
“imgtype” which you can use with the URL. For this put in the URL as
follows:
• http://images.google.co.in/images?q=happy&imgtype=face
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