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I'm feeling lucky with more intelligence !!

Written by Quakeboy on Sunday, November 25, 2007

Everyone of us use google almost everyday, but not all of those know the use of the wonderful I'm feeling lucky button

If you already know Whats Im feeling Lucky button, then this short article tells you about a more intelligent version of it, which is nothing but
your firefox browser's Address bar. I'm feeling lucky button, automatically takes you directly to the first web page Google returned for your query

Its a handy feature which is preferred by a large amount of googlers, But not everytime it will fetch you the exact page you wanted, also it will take a long time before you become a google search experts who always uses the most optimum keywords and make the best use of it.

Lets have an example, open firefox and type in the address bar 'Times of India' and press enter. You will be amazed that it takes you straight to timesofindia.indiatimes.com. "

Hey this is what the I'm feeling lucky button does !", Yes hold on, but give another try with the keyword 'Bangalore bloggers' in your firefox address bar and press enter. It just displays the normal google search result.

NOW ISN'T THIS A IM FEELING LUCKY BUTTON WITH INTELLIGENCE ??



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Google - Tricks, Tips, and Shortcuts

Written by Quakeboy on Thursday, April 05, 2007


Here are some not so familiar google search tricks and tips that are very useful.

  • NOT MORE THAN 10 WORDS - Google limits searches to only ten words entered, so keep your search phrases as short as possible.
  • ORDER IS IMPORTANT - Google searches the words in the order they appear. So TRAVEL WORLD will get you results which are different from WORLD TRAVEL.
  • INTITLE - Search only the Webpage Titles. Example: intitle:funny pictures
  • SPECIFY FILETYPES - There are a number of file types searched by Google in addition to standard HTML-formatted pages. Example: Typing filetype:swf ninja games brings back only flash movies on the subject of ninja games. Check out more examples below.

    - Adobe Acrobat - pdf
    - Microsoft Excel - xls
    - Powerpoint - ppt
    - Rich Text Format - rtf
    - Text files - txt
  • INTEXT only, NO URL or link - Google searches only in the body text of Web pages-not in links, URLs, or titles. Example: intext:best game
  • SEARCH WITHIN A SPECIFIC SITE - Use this when you want Google's to search in particular site alone. Example: site:gamerevolution.com arcade games would return results about arcade games from gamerevolution site alone.
  • ASK GOOGLE TO DEFINE A WORD - Example define: secret
  • GOOGLE AS CALCULATOR or CURRENCY EXCHANGE CALCULATOR - its as simple as entering 4+4 or any other complex equation. In Currency conversion just put a '?' for the unknown term. Example - 34 INR = ? USD.
  • - Post Information provided by Prajish.
    courtesy: http://library.wcc.hawaii.edu/Computers/Google.htm



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