How to get more out of Google

1. Effective Googling! Hardik Thakkar CMED Infosys Technologies

12. Need Exact Phrase? Use quotation marks! “infosys billion dollar”

13. Expand Search With Synonym? Use a “tilde” e.g.: “~infosys” finds IT companies similar to Infosys

14. Search by filetype (pdf, ppt, xls, doc) e.g.: “.Net Framework” filetype:ppt

15. Negative Search Terms e.g.: “nano –car” will return the results with word ‘nano’ but not Tata Nano car

16. Limit your 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 `

17. Search for sites that link to a particular website: e.g.: “link:infosys.com”

18. You’ve found a useful website & want to find other sites like it: e.g.: “related:www.infosys.com”

19. Google is a Dictionary Find definition of a word or a phrase? e.g.: define: scruples

20. Google is a Calculator as well 

21. Google is Converter too..! Convert currency, units and a lot more

33. local.google.co.in Effective localized search solution

34. google.co.in/movies Find theatres running your desired movies in your city..wow

35. google.com/codesearch search public source code

36. Google hack for finding movies/music (warning: Not to be tried at office but home…!) e.g.: intitle:”index.of”(mp3|mp4|avi|dat|mpeg) mummy