Google Tips and Tricks

Speaking Notes from a Tech Talks Presentation by Mark Phillips, September 7, 2005

Google Labs Homepage

• A great place to see what is going on with the world of Google--what they are working on and what is to come.

Google Suggest

• Get suggestions for the searches you are doing.

Google Sets

• Get a list of other things that fit into a "set" with your topic.
  • Try: Oklahoma State, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City University.

Google Maps

• Entering a location
• Navigating the map screen
• Mapping/Directions
• Markers
• Satellite/Hybrid View
• "Hacks"
  • Embedded Maps
  • Cheap Gas Finder
  • Katrina Info
  • Sex Offenders Database
    
    

Google Searching

• Site: - By typing site:www.library.unt.edu you will be doing a search only on that domain. site:.edu will also work to search only in .edu sites
• Calculator: - Great for doing conversions (256 kb to KB) (1998 in roman numerals)(5 kilometers in miles) (CXCVIII in arabic)
• Currency Conversion: - (5 dollars in swiss money) (3.5 USD in GBP)
• Definitions: "define digital" or "define supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"
• File Types: - "CRS Report for Congress filetype:pdf"
• Weather: "weather phoenix, az"
• Link: - "link:digital.library.unt.edu/govdocs/crs"
  
  

Google Moon