1. Be Smart with Google Smart Searching

2. Use “…” Searches for that exact phrase

3. Use -word No spaces between –and key word

4. Define: word Find definitions of words

5. Write a Calculation

6. Google Squared http://www.google.com/squared Add more columns to get more information

7. Google Options

8. Images Choose what type of image you want…photo, clip art, line drawing, choose a colour and/or size

9. Videos Select a duration or a relevant date

10. News See the latest news items, filter by country, and time

11. Books Find books, see full views and previews, select time and relevance

12. Realtime Realtime results as they appear (includes blogs and twitter updates)

13. Siteswith images Shows groups of images from sites

14. More with images http://image-swirl.googlelabs.com/ Select a key word for a more succinct search

15. Wonder Wheel Displays more search terms in a mind map

16. Timeline Creates a timeline of events to do with your keywords

17. Education hits :edu Type in :edu after a search word to find sites with an educational content

18. Ctrl or Command F Ctrl F a keyword and all instances of it will be highlighted in the text.

19. Conversions

20. Reading age Click on Advanced search

21. Type in an address

22. Time Type in time and then the name of city or place