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Presentation of the google search tips and secret event
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Some tips on about Google search
General tips on google search• Start by a simple name or word.• Ignore spelling.• Use web friendly words(head hurts -
headache).• Case insensitive.• Punctuation ignores.
Search with an exact phrase
Put quotation marks around words "[any word]" to search for an exact phrase in an exact order.
Eg: “University of Ceylon”P.S. : searching with quotes might exclude relevant results
Examine public data
Data directly from the country.
demographic terms <Country>
Eg:Population Sri Lanka
Get definitions
Put define: in front of any word to get its definition.
Eg: define : girl
Search within a specific site
Eg: Roshan G. site:pdn.ac.lk
<Search Item> site: <site url>
Search by file type
Eg:Filetype:pdf water
Info:<site url>
• Use info keyword to get information about a website.
Info
Search for Number range
Operator: ..
Eg: laptop 30000..50000 laptop..30000
Asterisk (* operator)
• Use an asterisk within a query for any unknown term.
Eg: “university of *”
Ignoring Search Results
Eg: Sri Lanka -Government
•To ignore specific results
Related Keywords
•Add “~” to any keyword to get related keywords in your search.
Eg: ~prince
Find related pages• Use the related: operator to find pages
that have similar content.Eg: related:pdn.ac.lk
Web history
•Web History offers you a log of websites you've visited.
www.google.com/history
Some other services
Weather Use Google to retrieve weather
related information of a city.
Eg: weather in Kandy
Time
To get the local time.Eg:time Kandy.
Conversion
To convert one unit to another.
Eg: 100km to miles
Calculate anything
Eg: 100*3.14-cos(83)=
Flight Information
<flight number>Eg: SG 873
• To get the flight info for a flight
Get currency conversions• Convert the currency.
Eg:usd in lkr