Want advice, opinions, and recommendations that haven’t necessarily been edited?
Then consider using Google Groups, which provides access (posting and reading) to thousands of discussion forums — an enormous storehouse of discourse, including
Forums on practically everything from aviation to zymurgy (brewing beer)
Opinions, advice, and resource information, e.g.,
Opinions on laser eye surgery
Reviews for small OR compact digital […]
Looking for an image, map, graphic, photo, design or drawing? Try Google’s Image Search by clicking on the Images link above Google’s search box
or visiting images.google.com.
Enter your query and click on the Google Search button. Alternatively, enter your query and then click on the Images link above the search box. Google Image Search works best […]
In this course segment you’ll learn how to take advantage of Google’s specialized search services.
Google started by providing generalized web search. It also offers specialized searches that are accessible by clicking on the links at the top of many Google pages — e.g., the results page (which we show just after this paragraph) and the […]
“Parcel tracking IDs, patents, and other specialized numbers can be entered into Google’s search box for quick access to information about them,” according to the Google Web Search Features page, www.google.com/help/features.html.
Special searches by number types include:
Examples
Area Code Map
[ 212 ]
Package Tracking
[ 999444666222 ]
Flight Tracking Information
[ united 42 ]
Vehicle Information
[ JH4NA1157MT001832 ]
Patent Search
[ patent 5122313 ]
FAA Airplane Registration Numbers
[ n199ua ]
UPC […]
Google provides a shortcut for learning about delays and weather conditions at a US airport. Just enter the airport’s three-letter code followed by the word “airport” into Google’s search box.
Note: This feature may not work if you search from any of Google’s non-US sites, e.g., google.de, google.com.co, google.ca nor from a foreign-language site, e.g., Swahili […]
When you include “define,” “what is,” or “what are” in your query in front of a word, phrase, or acronym, Google displays one Glossary definition above your search results. Google Glossary provides definitions for words, phrases, and acronyms that Google finds on web pages. The Glossary is good for finding definitions for terms that aren’t […]
Looking for Google’s stock symbol? It’s GOOG on Nasdaq. Click here for Google’s stock price or search for it on Google.
Note: Entering a ticker symbol in the search box and then clicking on I’m Feeling Lucky will not take you to that symbol’s financial information page. Instead, Google displays the first search results, whose link […]
Want to find where something is or how to get there? Just enter an address into Google. You can also copy and paste addresses, even ones with embedded carriage returns, into Google’s search box. When Google recognizes your query as a location, the results page includes a map for that location.
Google Maps’ coverage of the […]
Finding the phone number of a person who lives in the United States used to mean searching the white pages of the telephone directory. Printed residential phone books are getting scarce, but Google has an alternative: the Residential PhoneBook service. Just enter a person’s name and a city, state, or zip code in the standard […]
Want to add up a list of numbers, convert from miles to kilometers, or evaluate some other mathematical expression? Instead of using a piece of paper, your calculator, or a computer math software program, you can now solve mathematical problems with Google’s built-in calculator function.
Simply enter the expression you’d like evaluated in Google’s web search […]
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