A simple cheat sheet to make your google search more effective. Nothing amazing yet an effort for new users

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Google Cheat Sheet
MDPWE 2012 – IIM Udaipur
Operands
1) AND : Used to search the pages containing all of the key words. In case no operand is used
the default “AND” operand is used by google
Example: IIM Udaipur
Result page:
2) OR: Searches for either of the keywords.
Example: IIM OR Udaipur: This will search pages that carries either IIM or Udaipur,
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Example: IIM OR Udaipur Rajasthan: This will search pages that carry either IIM or Udaipur
but also carry Rajasthan
3) + : This Operand can be used in place of AND operand
4) -: This operand will exclude a key word from the search results
Example: IIM –indore : This will show the results with pages that contains the term IIM but
does not contain the term “Indore”
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5) ~: This operand will search for the synonyms/ antonym or similar kind words on the internet,
very useful when you don’t know exact term to use
Example: ~loss
6) “” (Quotes): Used to search complete phrases:
Example: “My experiments with truth”
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7) * (Wild card): Can be used in place of any word (Complete word) thus “white *” will show
results with keyword white followed by any other word.
Example: “Brave * boy”
8) Inurl: Searches for words in the URL
Example: inurl:iimu.ac.in
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9) Intitle: Will search for the key words in the page title
Example: intitle:”information technology”
10) Intext: searches the key words in the text
Example: intext:iimu
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11) Site: Searches the keywords only on a particular site
Example: Deepa site:iimu.ac.in
12) Filetype: Searches for a particular type of file
Example: IIMU filetype:pdf
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13) Calculator: Can be used to perform simple or complex calculations
Example: 5894+9984
Example: Sine (80 degrees)
14) Unit Conversion: You can use google to convert your units
Example: 10 feet in meters
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Example: 100000 sq feet in acres
Example: 1500 grams in pounds
15) Finding current time for a particular location
Example: Time Jaipur
Example:Time new York
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16) Find next sunset time for a location
Example: sunset Udaipur
17) Find next Sunrise time for a location
Example: sunrise udaipur
18) Find about a weather at a particular location
Example: weather London
19) Find about common disease
Example: bird flu
20) Find about the movies in the local cenema with reviews and trailers
Example: Movie:battleship
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21) Using google as dictionary
Define
Example: Define: strategy
22) Using Google Translate:
Choose the language to translate from and to translate into (Use phonetic keyboard for
languages using script other than Roman)
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