10 powerful tips to use Google search more effectively

Google search is the most popular search tool and the followings tips would help in search web pages using Google more efficiently

Exclude Words

If you want to exclude any word from the search result then you can specify the search string as “Search Terms” – “Exclude Words”

In the above example, the search results would exclude word India from web pages containing search term Cricket IPL

Exact Phrase

If you want to the search results to contain pages matching the exact words then search term must specified with in double quotes “Microsoft Outlook”

Current Time

For finding out the current time of a particular place the search term has to be “What time is it <location>”. Replace <location> with name of the location.

Meaning of a Word

This can be done by specifying the search term after “define”. Shown below is the web definition for word Google

Calculator

Google search can be used as a calculator by specifying the numbers and with the corresponding operators in the search text box

RapidShare

If you want to use Google search for searching RapidShare site for eBooks, Movies et.c then you can specify the following search terms in search text box

PDF – site:rapidshare.com inurl:pdf

MP3 – site:rapidshare.com inurl:mp3

AVI – site:rapidshare.com inurl:avi

RAR – site:rapidshare.com inurl:rar

Movie Reviews

“movie slumdog millionaire” search term would bring search results containing movie reviews for slumdog millionaire film.

Stock Information

Google search can be used for finding stock information of a stock symbol entered in the search text box

Site Search

If you want to search only a specific web site pages then the search term can be specified as “site:<web site>:<search word>”

If you want to search blogmines.com for editplus then search term should be site:blogmines.com editplus

OR Operator

OR operator can be used for doing This or that search. For example if you want to see web pages containing words apples or oranges then the search term has to be apples or oranges.

For more tips check out Google Search Features