Effective Googling!

Harshi
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How Old is Google?

Answer: 9 years (10 on September 7, 2008) In September of 1998, Google Inc. opened its door in Menlo Park, CA.
http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/history.html#1995)

More About Google

Google is a play on the word googol which is the mathematical term for 1 followed by 100 zeros and reflects the company's mission to organize the immense, seemingly infinite amount of information available on the web.

Effective Googling
How does Google interpret basic search?
Google places AND operator between all search terms entered in basic search box. Automatically searches for some plural/singular and grammatical variants.
You enter: Google searches: news reader news AND reader OR readers

Does not search as exact phrase unless quotes present!

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Need Exact Phrase? Use quotation marks!

infosys billion dollar

Expand Search With Synonym? Use a tilde

e.g.: ~infosys finds IT companies similar to Infosys

Search by filetype (pdf, ppt, xls, doc)

e.g.: .Net Framework filetype:ppt

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Negative Search Terms

e.g.: nano car will return the results with word nano but not Tata Nano car

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Limit your search results to a particular web site

e.g.: sparsh site:infosys.com will get the pages from infosys.com where the word sparsh is referred `

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Search for sites that link to a particular website:

e.g.: link:infosys.com

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Youve found a useful website & want to find other sites like it:
e.g.: related:www.infosys.com

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Google is a Dictionary
Find definition of a word or a phrase? e.g.: define: scruples

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Google is a Calculator as well

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Google is Converter too..!

Convert currency, units and a lot more

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Use Specialty Search Functions

Google News: news.google.com Google Images: images.google.com Google Blog Search: blogsearch.google.com Google Finance: finance.google.com Google Scholar: scholar.google.com Google Book Search: books.google.com

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Google News Alerts

Tracking an event in the news? Create your own Google News alert its free! Can choose to monitor latest developments on web pages, blogs, Google news, Google discussion group pages, or all of these sources.
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Google Book Search

Searches full text of indexed books.
If work is in public domain, full contents usually available. If not, users can view bibliographic info (author, title, publisher) and perhaps some excerpts.
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Last but not the least

Localized search Movie search

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local.google.co.in
Effective localized search solution

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google.co.in/movies
Find theatres running your desired movies in your city..wow

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Interesting stuff

Google Docs Google Calendar Google Reader Google Gear Google App Engine Google Sites

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