Google Search Tips (ver 1.1)

Last time we discussed about some Google Search tips that made Google Search easy. Though it started as an internet search engine, over years it developed the intelligence to help us in many different ways. Thanks to its constant innovations in Internet Search Technology!

Now we will look at some more interesting search methods that help us find the definitions of words, know Foreign Exchange rates, Scientific Conversions, do Mathematical Calculations and even find products in a specific price range. Isn't that not exciting ?

• Google Search helps us with a way to find the definition of words from around the world. This is achieved by using the search prefix define: to your search term. These definitions are actually sourced from the Glossary pages of many websites and online books. An example is a search on define:AIDS

• Here comes my favorite search method which coverts one currency into another considering the ForEx rates on that day. For your surprise this does not require usage of any prefix or so. Just plain English to tell Google Search the source and target currencies and the quantity. For instance to know the value of a British Pound in Japanese Yen the query would be pound in yen. If you want to know how many Indian Rupees make 3 million US Dollars, here is the query 3 million usd in inr (that's huge!)
  

• One the lines of above tip, you can even do scientific conversions. That means conversion of one unit into another. Be it Electricity, Area, Pressure, Volume whatever it may be. Here are a few examples to make it more understandable.
• To convert Energy 100 watt hours in joules
• To convert Area 1800 square feet in square yards
• To convert pressure 500 psi in newton per square meter
• To convert volume 20 cubic litre in cubic ml

• Now comes the most interesting part of all, Mathematic Calculations. This feature of Google Search (more appropriate to say Google Calc!) almost replaces your desktop calculator. Though limited by own knowledge of Mathematics, I try best to illustrate some of the complex calculations you can perform on Google Search. Here you go.
• power 5^15
  
• percentage 14.4% of 45
  
• Baisc Mathematic 5*(15-3.456)/26+14
  
• Trigonometric tan(45)/sin(30)*pi
  
• Using all 5*(tan(45)*log 100)/(50% of 200)*2^8

• Finally let's discuss how to perform a search for some product in a specific price range. I am sure this is of most interest to many reading this article. The syntax of search string is to suffix the product by a price range which is separated .. (two dots)
  
• notebook $500..$1000
• canon eos 30d $1000..$1500

Having seen such powerful capabilities of Google Search, no doubt it is touted as the most revolutionary search engine in the history of Computing.

I will be posting even more advanced Google Search tips in coming days.

Happy Googling !