AMAZING THINGS YOU NEVER KNOW THAT GOOGLE CAN DO
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AMAZING THINGS YOU NEVER KNOW THAT GOOGLE CAN DO

System Engineer

Get the local time anywhere

Try – “Time India” (without the quotes)

The syntax - time(India) and what time is it in India will also give the same result.

Convert currency, metrics, bytes, and more

Try – “10 US Dollars in Indian money”

Try these also: 10 USD to INR will also give the same result.

Quarter cup in teaspoons - how many teaspoons are in a quarter cup

Seconds in a year – how many seconds in a year

21376 Bytes in Kilobytes – Bytes to KB Conversion

19 in Binary – Numeric to Binary conversion

Use Google as a free proxy

Try – “Cache: www.orkut.com

The provided website will be showed as a result of google search. Even that site is blocked in your company’s proxy or firewall or whatever it may be.

Flight Schedule Finder

Try “Kingfisher flight 3631”

The provided flights schedule will be provided as first result. But I don’t think that will work on all flights.

Find related terms and documents

Adding a tilde (~) to a search term will return related terms. For example, Googling ~nutrition returns results with the words nutrition, food, and health in them.

Finding the same type of sites

Try – Madras site:edu

Adding “site:edu” to search university and college sites. Good for finding reliable information and in depth analysis on the subject of interest.

Weather Report of your area

Try – “Weather chennai”

Just look into the first result. It’s amazing Current temperature, Sky status, Wind details, Humidity and next 3 days expected temperature details. Cool na.

Definition of a term

Try – “Define: computer”

Which will gives you a large definition details about the term – computer.

Need to find the movie schedules

Try – “Vaaranam aayiram, Chennai, india

Try – “Movies Chennai”

It will give the movie schedules in Chennai theatres of vaaranam aayiram movie. Second one will provide the all movies schedules in Chennai theatres.

Calculator

Try some calculation like 5+5*8..etc.

It will work like a calculator. And I’m giving you a intresting calculation. Take any number from 1 to 9. And multiply that number by 8. And multiply that number with 12345679 (Note: Digit 8 missing). Intresting result…???? For Ex: 5*8*12345679. Enjoy

Location Finding

Try “Panagal Maligai, Saidapet, Chennai”

You can locate the address in google maps. Intresting….!!!

And more tips and tricks… http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html

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