12 Quick Tips To Search Google Like An Expert

12 Quick Tips To Search Google Like An Expert

1.Explicit Phrase: Lets say you are looking for content about internet marketing. Instead of just typing internet marketing into the Google search box, you will likely be better off searching explicitly for the phrase. To do this, simply enclose the search phrase within double quotes.
Example: “internet marketing”

2.Exclude Words: Lets say you want to search for content about internet marketing, but you want to exclude any results that contain the term advertising. To do this, simply use the “-“ sign in front of the word you want to exclude.
Example Search: internet marketing -advertising

3.Site Specific Search: Often, you want to search a specific website for content that matches a certain phrase. Even if the site doesn’t support a built-in search feature, you can use Google to search the site for your term. Simply use the “site:somesite.com” modifier.
Example: “internet marketing” site:www.smallbusinesshub.com

4.Similar Words and Synonyms: Let’s say you are want to include a word in your search, but want to include results that contain similar words or synonyms. To do this, use the “~” in front of the word.
Example: “internet marketing” ~professional

5.Specific Document Types: If you’re looking to find results that are of a specific type, you can use the modifier “filetype:”. For example, you might want to find only PowerPoint presentations related to internet marketing.
Example: “internet marketing” filetype:ppt

6.This OR That: By default, when you do a search, Google will include all the terms specified in the search. If you are looking for any one of one or more terms to match, then you can use the OR operator. (Note: The OR has to be capitalized).
Example: internet marketing OR advertising

7.Phone Listing: Let’s say someone calls you on your mobile number and you don’t know how it is. If all you have is a phone number, you can look it up on Google using the phonebook feature.
Example: phonebook:617-555-1212 (note: the provided number does not work – you’ll have to use a real number to get any results).

8.Area Code Lookup: If all you need to do is to look-up the area code for a phone number, just enter the 3-digit area code and Google will tell you where it’s from.
Example: 617

9.Numeric Ranges: This is a rarely used, but highly useful tip. Let’s say you want to find results that contain any of a range of numbers. You can do this by using the X..Y modifier (in case this is hard to read, what’s between the X and Y are two periods. This type of search is useful for years (as shown below), prices or anywhere where you want to provide a series of numbers.
Example: president 1940..1950

10. Stock (Ticker Symbol): Just enter a valid ticker symbol as your search term and Google will give you the current financials and a quick thumb-nail chart for the stock.
Example: GOOG

11. Calculator: The next time you need to do a quick calculation, instead of bringing up the Calculator applet, you can just type your expression in to Google.
Example: 48512 * 1.02

12. Word Definitions: If you need to quickly look up the definition of a word or phrase, simply use the “define:” command.
Example: define:plethora

Hope this proves useful in your future Google searches. If there are any of your favorite Google power tips that I’ve missed, please feel free to share them in the comments.

My oral English test's draft

Xin: I have just watched a film about friendship. It is such a touching one that I nearly cried in the end.
Liao: That is obviously of true that friendship plays an awfully important part in our lives. Being moved by friendship is our humanity.
Hu: Friends are who change your life just by being a part of it, who make you believe that there really is good in the world, who convince you that there really is an unlock door waiting for you to open it.
Liang: To human beings, friendship maybe the most important and valuable thing in the world. One can get a lot from a sincere friendship. Here is a famous example. That is the friendship between Karl Marx’s and Friedrich Engels.
Liao: As far as I know they were friends for a life span. Marx spent ten years on his great work The Capital. However, his economy condition is so bad that he couldn’t keep on his writing. As Marx’s friend, Engels provided him material assist and exchanged ideas with him. Depending on Engels’ help, Marx finished his work.
Xin: I also learn of something about them. The Communism Manifesto is the great works of them two. In my opinion, that will do if having such an intimate in my life. A friend brings you happiness and felicity, gets rid of trouble and grief. I f you have good friends; you will have a wonderful life.
Hu: However, though we all know friends are important in our life, it is full of difficulty in getting a friend that truly deserves your lifetime’s sincerity and treasuring. Let’s view on our daily life and we can find many cases about friend-betrayed.
Liang: That is true. A friend is a gift, whose worth cannot be measured excepted by heart. If we want to have true friends we have to pour our trust, respect, generosity and embracement. Above all, we should have something noble in common with the on we want to make friends with.
Liao: I cannot agree more. In any case, we should respect our friends. Because of the intimate relation between our friends and us, we may know many private things about them. If we cannot constrain our show-desire, and spread these privates, it will give our friends a badly hurt and damage our friendship.
Hu: Meanwhile, trust is significant. If we regard someone as our friend, we should trust him/her. No matter what has happened or will happen, tell him the truth. We can not be liar, especially to our friends. If we are in trouble, tell it to our friends. Maybe he/she cannot help us out, but it will make us feel better and it will also make our friends feel good because of our trust.
Xin: I identify with your view. And I think that generosity as well a important fact. Even between the best friends, the quarrel is unavoidable. May be you are right, maybe he is right. It is unnecessary to blame each other, the best method to solve your dispute is to contain, unless the withdraw will break your principle.
Liang: One in all, the most cherished thing in life is friendship, and it brings beauty to our world, nurtures the dearest, the finest and the noblest in our heart and gives the wholeness to navigate safely through the sea of life.
All: Like the saying goes, we are angles with one wing, if we hug tightly together, we can fly high in the sky.