This document provides tips and tricks for using advanced search features on Google: - Quotes and minus signs can be used to find pages where terms do or do not appear together. Site and file type limits can focus searches to specific domains or file formats. - Google has special search features for calculations, unit conversions, definitions, weather, currency conversion and more. Alerts, books, and scholar searches provide additional tools. - Other Google services mentioned include translate, transliteration, voice search, image search, and information on Google Glass. The document encourages exploring these advanced features for more powerful searching.

1. Yourself
Akhlesh Agarwal
6th July 2013 1
NIIT University

2. To organize the world’s information
and make it universally accessible and
useful
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Google’s mission

3. Search: Power tips
• Quotes on search string
• In first example, search result will include pages where words
NIIT and university are used separately. E.g. if NIIT does some
project with Delhi university. But in second case it will show
only those pages where both words appear together, so they
will be about NIIT university only.
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NIIT University “NIIT University”v/s

4. Search: Power tips
• Minus sign
• In first example most pages in the result will be about NIIT’s
Raji pawar. But in second case you will be able to search those
pages which have words Rajendra pawar but not NIIT. So you
can search about some other person with same name. This
technique is useful if you want to search about a marketing
guru other than kotler or similar situations.
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Rajendra Pawar Rajendra Pawar -NIITv/s

5. Search: Power tips
• Site:<abc.com>, site:.in
• With this keyword you can search within a website or within
all .in sites or so on.
• Filetype:ppt, pdf
• With this keyword google will return only PDF or PPT files
instead of web pages.
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For more tips on power search view video lessons at
http://www.powersearchingwithgoogle.com/
Search-word site:niituniversity.in Search-word site:.inor
Search-word filetype:pdf Search-word filetype:pptor

6. Special search features
• Calculator:
• Graph
• Currency conversion
• Measurement units
• Define (dictionary)
• Weather
• Time
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45*34+23
Y=sin(x) Y=x^2 Y=2x+2
5 usd in inr
5 Km in Miles
Define university
Weather neemrana
Time london
Type these search strings in google search to use special
google tools instead of conventional search

7. More google power
• Alerts: receive daily mail on new content on
web on area of your interest
• Books: read limited chapters of text books for
free
• Scholar: search in research papers
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http://www.google.co.in/alerts
http://www.google.co.in/books
http://scholar.google.co.in/

8. Translate
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http://translate.google.co.in/

9. Transliterate
Type this:
Mera naam Raam Hai
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http://www.google.co.in/inputtools/cloud/try/
You can copy paste this hindi text in any doc or mail etc

10. Search by voice
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Click on mic icon, search by voice instead of typing the search word

11. Search by image
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Step 1
Step 2
Click on camera icon, upload an image from your computer
and see results of similar images on the web

12. Google glass
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http://www.google.com/glass/start/what-it-does/

13. T h a n k y o u
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akhlesh.agarwal@
@akhlesha