2007-09-27

Happy 9th Birthday Google!

It's Google's 9th Birthday today. Happy Birthday Google!
I was very much moved by a comment left by a visitor to my blog post
Happy Birthday Google!, exactly one year ago..

prakashraju said...
YOU ARE MY GOD ALMIGHTY!!!!
EVERYTHING IS IN YOU!!!!

I LOVE YOU GOOGLE!!
WITHOUT YOU MY DAYS WON'T START!!
I WISH YOU MANY MANY HAPPY RETURNS OF THE DAY!!!

I PRAY FOR YOUR SUCCESS!!!!
WITH LOVE & AFFECTION!

yours forever!!!!

I couldn't agree more.

Well this time I thought of bringing some facts about the Web search, the thing that Google does best...
  • Choose your search term wisely. Multiple terms will narrow down your search.
  • The order in which search terms are entered will effect the results.
  • All letters are treated as lowercase even if you type in uppercase letters.
  • and >> No need to have 'and' between words. By default all search terms entered are searched for.
  • + >> common words & single digits & characters are ignored in Google searches. To include them, you need to have + sign in front it.
  • " " >> having quotes around search terms will search for exact phrase.
  • - >> to exclude a term from the search, add a - sign in front of the term
  • ~ >> to include synonyms in a search
    • Eg: ~food research includes results with Food, Nutrition, Restaurant , etc.. as synonyms of food
  • OR >> to include either of the terms, put uppercase 'OR' between two search terms.
  • .. >> to include a number range, which can be years, $, v, kg etc.. as you specify.
  • * >> to include one or more keywords in it's place. Google will fill in the blanks.
  • site: >> to restrict a search to a particular web site.
  • allintitle: >> to restrict for search terms appearing only in the title of web pages.
  • intitle: >> to find web pages with the search term appearing immediately after 'intitle:' in the title of a web page. Note: No space between 'intitle:' & search term.
  • allinurl: >> to find web pages with all of the search terms occurring in their URL.
  • inurl: >> to find web pages with the term immediately after 'inurl:' occurring in the url. Note: No space between 'inurl:' & search term.
  • link: >> to find web pages that link to a particular site.
  • related: >> to find similar web pages to a specified web page.
  • cache: >> to get last snapshot Google bot created
  • info: >> to get information Google has collected about a web page.
  • definition: >> to get a definition of a word, as given in various web sites
  • filetype: or ext: >> to retrict search to a file type other than html. Supported types are,
    • Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf)
    • Adobe PostScript (ps)
    • Lotus 1-2-3 (wk1, wk2, wk3, wk4, wk5, wki, wks, wku)
    • Lotus WordPro (lwp)
    • MacWrite (mw)
    • Microsoft Excel (xls)
    • Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt)
    • Microsoft Word (doc)
    • Microsoft Works (wks, wps, wdb)
    • Microsoft Write (wri)
    • Rich Text Format (rtf)
    • Shockwave Flash (swf)
    • Text (ans, txt)
Further readings at Google: Web Search Help Center :

2007-09-16

Cricket Scores @ Google


Originally uploaded by zahidul islam
I was amazed to find that Google search box can be used to see the latest Cricket Scores in Twenty20 world championship matches being played.
You can just type Cricket for results of the latest match or Cricket Sri Lanka for your favorite team or Cricket Sri Lanka New Zealand for a specific match. A summery of the score card is shown with a link to the complete score card.
After all Google seems to have noticed the enthusiasm among Cricketing fans...