If you haven’t already, you should definitely check out Google’s Inside Search site, where you can explore a cool interactive graphic explaining how Google search works.
What I found especially cool is that Google decided to put all of their search tips and tricks in one place – 50 of them to be exact. While many of you are probably familiar with a good portion of Google’s search functionality, I am fairly certain that you will learn at least 1 new thing, if not quite a few more things that you can do with Google that you didn’t know that you could.
Here is the list of all 50 Google search tips and tricks:
- Web history
- Start simple
- Ignore spelling
- Use web friendly words
- Less is more
- Search with an exact phrase
- Use descriptive words
- Don’t worry about cases
- Search within a specific site
- Don’t worry about punctuation
- Search by file type
- Include or ignore words and characters in your search
- Find related pages
- Find recipes
- Search numbers in a range
- Get number conversions
- Get the time
- Get currency conversions
- Search the web in all languages
- Check the weather
- Get realtime stock quotes
- Check sport scores and schedules
- Search with Goggles
- Track your packages
- Get definitions
- Search by advanced image search
- Calculate anything
- Locate earthquake activity
- Search by location
- Search locations by zip and area codes
- Shop and compare
- Get local sunrise/sunset times
- Discover local business
- Get movie times
- Read public domain books
- Hone in on a particular range
- Check flight schedules
- Research health conditions
- Check flight times
- Get world news
- Search for an address
- Similar terms
- Search by voice
- Examine public data
- Get interactive financial info
- Find medication information
- Instant on mobile
- Use instant preview on mobile
- Search by location
- Get interactive weather
If you’d rather navigate Google’s search functionality through their interactive graphic, click below:
Also, while high level, you will probably enjoy quickly navigating through Google’s interactive graphic on how their search works.
Click on the image below to be taken to the live page where you can mouse over many sections within the graphic to reveal additional information:
