Stormseed
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Hi everyone,
Since a couple of years I have seen so many people tend to not use a best resource available on the internet. "GOOGLE" !! Either they are not awre of what Google can do or they *LACK* knowledge of using it to their advantage. I will be showing a number of good points to incorporate in order to search for solutions (solutions can be any - excel or whatever) on GOOGLE.
All of us love Google but only a few of us know how to utilize the search capabilities on Google to its maximum.
Here we go..
1) How old is GOOGLE ?
--> 9 years. 10 years on Sept 7, 2008.
2) What is GOOGLE ?
--> “Google” is a play on the word “googol” which is the mathematical term for 1 followed by 100 zeros and “…reflects the company's mission to organize the immense, seemingly infinite amount of information available on the web.”
3) Number of Employees in GOOGLE ?
--> Over 10,000.
4) Size and Scope ?
--> Now indexing over 20 billion web pages (conservative estimate).
5) How does Google interpret basic search ?
--> Google places the "AND" operator between all search terms entered in the search box. It will automatically search for grammatical variants. It will not search as exact phrase unless quotes present.
6) How to search for a *similar* company or an institute or organization ?
--> Use a tilde (`/~). For example: “~infosys” finds IT companies similar to Infosys !
7) Search by filetype (pdf, ppt, xls, doc) -e.g.: “.Net Framework” filetype
pt.
8) Negative Search Terms -e.g.: “nano –car” will return the results with word ‘nano’ but not the new Tata Nano car.
9) Limit the search results to a particular web site -e.g.: “sparsh site:infosys.com” will get the pages from infosys.com where the word ‘sparsh’ is referred.
10) Search for sites that link to a particular website: -e.g.: “link:infosys.com”
11) You’ve found a useful website & want to find other sites like it: -e.g.: “related:www.infosys.com”
12) Google also can be used as a Dictionary. Find definition of a word or a phrase? -e.g.: define: scruples.
Have a great day
Since a couple of years I have seen so many people tend to not use a best resource available on the internet. "GOOGLE" !! Either they are not awre of what Google can do or they *LACK* knowledge of using it to their advantage. I will be showing a number of good points to incorporate in order to search for solutions (solutions can be any - excel or whatever) on GOOGLE.
All of us love Google but only a few of us know how to utilize the search capabilities on Google to its maximum.
Here we go..
1) How old is GOOGLE ?
--> 9 years. 10 years on Sept 7, 2008.
2) What is GOOGLE ?
--> “Google” is a play on the word “googol” which is the mathematical term for 1 followed by 100 zeros and “…reflects the company's mission to organize the immense, seemingly infinite amount of information available on the web.”
3) Number of Employees in GOOGLE ?
--> Over 10,000.
4) Size and Scope ?
--> Now indexing over 20 billion web pages (conservative estimate).
5) How does Google interpret basic search ?
--> Google places the "AND" operator between all search terms entered in the search box. It will automatically search for grammatical variants. It will not search as exact phrase unless quotes present.
6) How to search for a *similar* company or an institute or organization ?
--> Use a tilde (`/~). For example: “~infosys” finds IT companies similar to Infosys !
7) Search by filetype (pdf, ppt, xls, doc) -e.g.: “.Net Framework” filetype
pt.8) Negative Search Terms -e.g.: “nano –car” will return the results with word ‘nano’ but not the new Tata Nano car.
9) Limit the search results to a particular web site -e.g.: “sparsh site:infosys.com” will get the pages from infosys.com where the word ‘sparsh’ is referred.
10) Search for sites that link to a particular website: -e.g.: “link:infosys.com”
11) You’ve found a useful website & want to find other sites like it: -e.g.: “related:www.infosys.com”
12) Google also can be used as a Dictionary. Find definition of a word or a phrase? -e.g.: define: scruples.
Have a great day
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