This document provides an overview of Google Search tips and tricks to refine search techniques. It discusses using special characters and operators like the minus sign, asterisk, double quotes, brackets and OR to narrow searches. It also explains how to search for images, videos, maps, news, definitions and do calculations. Additional Google products covered include Drive, Calendar, Translate and tools for flights, weather, currency conversion and unit conversion.

1. Google Search Tips & Tricks
Presenter:
Ousman Faal
www.faalictacademy.com
11/26/2013

2. Overview
Searching Google
This guide covers selected tips and tricks to
refine your search technique.
Please note:
The tips and tricks described on this guide are
subject to change.
Google can personalise search results. Your
search results may be different from
someone else’s.

3. About Google
• Google was founded by Larry Page
and Sergey Brin while they were
Ph.D. students at Stanford University
in January 1996.
• Their mission statement was "to
organize the world's information and
make it universally accessible and
useful“.

4. Simple search query

5. Using the minus sign (-)

6. Dictionary Definitions

7. Fill in the Blank using the Asterisk sign (*)

8. Fill in the Blank using the Asterisk sign (*)

9. Using double dots (..)

10. Using double quotes (“”)

11. Using Intitle

12. Using (OR)

13. Synonym search using tilde sign(~)

14. Using (brackets)

15. Image Search

16. Downloading Images

17. Public Data

18. Time search

19. Downloading word files

20. Downloading pdf files

21. Downloading Video files

22. Calculating in Google search

23. I’m Feeling Lucky

24. I’m Feeling Lucky

25. Other Google products

26. Google Maps

27. Google News

28. Google Drive

29. Google Calendar

30. Google Calendar

31. Google Plus

32. Google Translate

33. Sports Scores

34. Sports Scores

35. Weather Search

36. Currency conversion

37. Google Voice Search

38. Related search

39. Flight Schedules

40. Profile search

41. Unit converter

42. Spell checker