The Basic Google Search Tricks--- Google Hacking

The Basic Google Search Tricks

Google is the most popular search engine on the web, but most people do not know how much more powerful they can make their Google search result with just a simple tweak.

You may be using Google multiple times per day to find something on the web. Learning how to use Google effectively can boost your productivity instantly. Today we share some basic Google search tricks to boost your search result.
1. Get currency conversions

Get current exchange rates by searching [currency 1] in [currency 2].

Google Currency Conversion
2. Check flight times

View live arrival and departure information for U.S. flights (Google may be not support for other countries) just by searching the name of the airline and the flight number.

Google Flights Checker
3. Check the weather

Search weather followed by the name of any city in the world to get the current weather and forecast.

Google Weather Checker
4. Get the Time

To see what time it is anywhere in the world, search time followed by city or country.

Google Time Checker
5. Get local sunrise/sunset times

To see the exact times of sunrises and sunsets in cities around the U.S. and the world, search sunrise or sunset followed by the city name.

Google Sunrise Checker
5. Search for an address

To map any location, type in the city name or zip code followed by word “map“, and you’ll see a map of that location. Click on the map to see the detail on Google Maps.

Google Address Checker
6. Check flight schedules

To see flight schedules to or from a particular destination, type flights from or flights to followed by the city or airport of interest.

Google Flights Checker
7. Check sport scores and schedules

Get scores and schedules for favorite sports teams by typing the team or league into the search box. All sports data provided by STATS, Inc.

Google Scores Checker
8. Get number conversions

Convert any measurement – like ton to kg by typing in the units of measurement.

Number Conversions
9. Get realtime stock quotes

Typing any ticker symbol into the search box will get you realtime stock quotes that update live in your search results. Click the link on the results page for a detailed market analysis from Google Finance.

Google Stock Checker
10. Search within a specific site

Precede your query with site: if you know you want your answer from within a specific site or type of site (.org, .edu). For example: site:edu or site:googletrickslist.com.

Search with specific site
1.Searching for the exact phrase

Place the exact phrase you are looking for in quotation marks (” “), not each of the words separately.
Search for the exact phrase
2. “OR” or “AND”

Put the operator “OR” to includes either of the keywords or “AND” to includes both of the keywords in search results.
Operator OR
Operator AND
3. Searching for numbers range

Type “…” between the numbers to search for specific range numbers.
Search for range numbers
4. Finding related sites

Including “related:” and the URL to search for results that are somehow related to that URL.
Find related sites
5. Including and Excluding the keywords

Place “~” before keywords to search for that words and all its synonyms. Place “-” before keywords to exclude the keyword from search results. Example: Searching for “totti ~champion” gives the results contain Totti along with champion, winner etc. Searching for “totti -champion” gives the results contain Totti without champion, winner etc.
Include keywords using ~Exclude keywords using -
6. Searching for definitions of word

Get definitions of word from multiple sources by adding “define:” before the word.

Finding definitions of word
7. Math Search using Google Calculator

Input any math expression for Google to solve. You can use the expression of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponents, remainders, trigonometry, etc.

You can also use Google to convert expressions with different units.

Google CalculatorGoogle ConverterThere are many other tricks on Google search, but for this time we cut up here, we will resume in the next article.  May this article can help you to improve the productivity of your search results in Google.