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Saturday, May 03, 2008

Little known google tips and tools

  1. Cheat Sheets:
  2. Google Advanced Operators
    Google Calculator
    More: Interactive online Google tutorial and references - Google Guide
  3. Try these searches:

    for Music: link to find James Taylor
    -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” mp3 “james taylor”

    for a Movie:
    -inurl:htm -inurl:html -inurl:php intitle:”index of” (mpg,mov,avi,wmv) “Movie Name”
  4. ebook : 55 Ways to Have Fun With Google pdf

    Try these searches from the ebook:

    chicken lemon (inurl:allrecipes.com inurl:epicurious inurl:recipesource site:cooking.com inurl:Recipezaar )

    answer to life, the universe and everything

    10 + 7 * 3 – 12

    seconds in a year

    (result: 31,556,926 seconds)

    15 USD in EUR

    (12.74 Euro)

    120 pounds * 2000 feet in Calories

    (77.77 kilocalories)

    furlongs per fortnight
    (0.000166309524 m / s)

    speed of light in knots
    (582,749,918 knots)

    Albert Einstein birthday

    define:nasa


    "love you twice as much * oh love * *."

    Cartoon:
    Googlepark: Scoble goes to Google

    To hack badly protected sites:
    (password passcode) (username userid user) filetype:csv

    More hacking:
    intitle:index-of last-modified private

    Finding webcams:
    powered by webcamXP
    or
    ProBroadcast

    Google Rhyming
    The first line is: “I’m writing a book on love”
    So we search for: “* * * * * above”

    ~gazebo 2000..2005
    Synonyms for gazebos (pergolas, etc.) from the year 2000 to 2005

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    One mashup, called Housing Maps (http://www.blogger.com/www.housingmaps.com), takes rental
    listings from the popular classifieds site Craigslist and adds it to
    Google Maps.

    a Googlewhack happens whenever you enter two words into
    Google and you receive exactly one result.

    Spelling Words With Google Images Letters

    Google Rotated 180° (blog.outer-court.com/rotated/)

    Dig here through the earth: 55fun.com/31.1

    Egobot (http://www.blogger.com/www.55fun.com/40) is a tool which uses the web itself as its
    brain. For every question you ask Egobot, he’ll try to find answers on
    Google within a second or two.

    Google Groups search Usenet back to May 11 1981. Sometimes funny.

    video.google.com sometimes funny. Lookup:
    overworked
    drunk
    blue man


    ~home -home
    Since Google now can’t show you results with “home,” it must show
    you synonyms of home only.