Is a web search engine owned by Google Inc. Google Search is the most-used search engine on the World Wide Web handling more than three billion searches each day.
The main purpose of Google Search is to hunt for text in publicly accessible documents offered by web servers, as opposed to other data, such as with Google Image Search. Google Search was originally developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1997.
Google Search provides at least 22 special features beyond the original word-search capability. These include synonyms, weather forecasts, time zones, stock quotes, maps, earthquake data, movie showtimes, airports, home listings, and sports scores.
There are special features for dates, including ranges, prices, temperatures, money/unit conversions, calculations, package tracking, patents, area codes, and language translation of displayed pages.
In June 2011, Google introduced "Google Voice Search" and "Search by Image" features for allowing the users to search words by speaking and by giving images. In May 2012, Google introduced a new Knowledge Graph semantic search feature to customers in the U.S.
"We Can Do A lot of Things With Google instead of Searching/Surfing Websites."
"We Can Do A lot of Things With Google instead of Searching/Surfing Websites."
Special Features
Beyond the standard word search
capability, Google can quickly display things like the current time or weather
of a particular city; it can be used to track packages; as a calculator for
basic and fairly advanced math operations; and can convert things like
currency, weights and measures.
Time and weather
To find the time in another corner of the globe simply enter "time" and then the name of a large city or country -- time Berlin for example.
Likewise, weather humidity, temperature and forecast can be viewed by typing the word "weather" followed by the desired location.
To find the time in another corner of the globe simply enter "time" and then the name of a large city or country -- time Berlin for example.
Likewise, weather humidity, temperature and forecast can be viewed by typing the word "weather" followed by the desired location.
Calculator and package tracking
Use Google for math equations by entering them as a query -- 3*2 will work, but so will a more complex calculation like 94/36*(sqrt 34)^3. Most symbols and integers can be swapped with written words, too.
Use Google for math equations by entering them as a query -- 3*2 will work, but so will a more complex calculation like 94/36*(sqrt 34)^3. Most symbols and integers can be swapped with written words, too.
Typing the
tracking number for your UPS, FedEx or USPS package directly into the search
box will get you quick links to easily track the status of your shipment.
Unit conversions
Conversions are just as easy. Simply enter a number followed by something like USD to GBP, mm to inch, Fahrenheit to Celsius.
Be it teaspoons, microseconds, bytes or kilometers, Google's conversion calculator is quite featured, and can be used for just about any unit that comes to mind.
Other tweaks
While all of that is handy and easy to use, things get much more intricate. By using the proper strings of text, you can even use Google search in place of a P2P program to find songs, video clips, and other media. There are also plenty of minor hacks and tweaks.
Other tweaks
While all of that is handy and easy to use, things get much more intricate. By using the proper strings of text, you can even use Google search in place of a P2P program to find songs, video clips, and other media. There are also plenty of minor hacks and tweaks.
For instance, Omgili shows how to tinker with a Google search URL to get real-time results. This is particularly useful for finding news related to current events; here's the latest on IDF (in progress as of this writing) within a 30 minute timeframe, by the way.
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