22 Very Important Google Search Tricks

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22 Very Important Google Search Tricks

To most people, Google is nothing more than a
regular search engine where you type in keywords
and questions and a couple of relevant links
containing answers are displayed. But to many
others who are in the know, Google is much more
than that. It has become a multipurpose tool that
you can utilize for performing a couple of day-to-
day tasks.
Google has really changed the way we see and
use the internet in so short a time and it's poised
to even do more. Today, Google has added some
cool features to its search engine platform which
many people still do not know about. Below is a
compilation of some of the coolest ways the big G
is many life easier. With Google you will be able
to:
1. Check today's date
Format: What is today
2. Know the current time in your locality and
elsewhere
Format: City time
Examples: Enugu time, Tokyo time
3. Know when it is sunrise and sunset
anywhere in the world
Formats: Sunrise time city, Sunset time city
Examples: Sunrise time Cape Town, Sunset time
London
4. Get to know the English Premier League
(and other competitions') fixtures, results,
table and latest scores
Formats: EPL fixtures, EPL results, EPL table, UEFA
Champions League fixtures, La Liga table, e.t.c.
5. Run scientific calculations
Formats: Google calculator, or manually e.g 546 x
664, 78 + 54, 2^2, 6 cos 7
6. Get the definitions, synonyms, antonyms
and etymologies of words
Formats: Define word, Word definition, Word
synonym, Word antonym, Etymology of word,
e.t.c.
Examples: Define xenoglossy, Etymology of
democracy
7. Convert measurements online
Examples: 458 feet to yards, 65 centimeters to
miles, 34 kilograms to pounds
8. Convert currencies online
Examples: 1 dollar to naira, 1 yen to yuan, 1
pound to euro
9. Set a timer
Examples: Set timer for 10 minutes, Set timer for
1 hour
10. Discover the distance between cities and
towns
Format: Distance between CityA and CityB
Example: Distance between Onitsha and Lagos
11. Know the weather conditions
Format: Temperature of City
Examples: Temperature of Jos, Temperature of
Abuja
12. Know popular books, movies and works by
famous authors, movie makers, actors, artists
etc
Formats: Books by Author, Movies by Director,
Works by Artist, etc
Examples: Books by Achebe, Movies by Spielberg,
Works by Michelangelo
13. Know a movie's casts
Format: Cast of Movie
Examples: Casts of Guardians of the Galaxy, Casts
of Hercules, Casts of Half of A Yellow Sun
14. Translate words
Example: Translate book to Igbo
15. Check a flight status
Example: Virgin Atlantic 201
16. Get local cinema listings
Formats: Movies for City, Movies for Area Code
Examples: Movies for Miami, Movies for 786
17. Extract data online
Examples: Unemployment rate of Britain, GDP
growth rate of Nigeria
18. Track your package online
Examples: 1D4678767292920862,
1Z35678546492920862
19. Play a game online
Example: Play Pacman on Google
20. Get stock quotes
Format: Stock quote Company
Examples: Stock quote Apple, Stock quote
Berkshire Hathaway, Stock quote Microsoft, Stock
quote Google
21. Discover your IP address
Example: IP address
22. Highlight and ignore words
Examples: [Highlight word] GDP "statistics" in
Nigeria (This will not display any webpage that
does not have the term 'statistics' in it), [Ignore
word] Education in developing countries -Nigeria
(This will remove all webpages with the term
'Nigeria' when displaying the results)