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November 10, 2005

Google Filter By Usage Rights

I'm not sure how long this has been there, but Google has added a filter on its Advanced Search page which allows you to filter search results by the license that content on a website is released under, which would be useful, for example, if you are looking for content which you can republish on your page.
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October 31, 2005

Google Currency Conversion

Google has a currency conversion feature built in to its search, all you have to do is search for 100 GBP in USD, for example, to convert £100 (UK Pounds Sterling) to US Dollars. If you don't know the acronym for the currency you're converting to then don't worry as you can also do conversions with a search like 100 USD in Czech money, if you were planning a trip to the Czech Republic.

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Search within a site with Google

Google lets you narrow your search down to within a specific website, or to within a specific TLD (for example .gov).

You can do this by using the site: command in your search, for example:

  • java site:sun.com - searches for java on sites with the domain name sun.com (this includes subdomains, like java.sun.com)
  • java site:java.sun.com - more specific; searches for java on sites with the domain name java.sun.com.
  • copyright site:gov - searches all US government sites (domain names ending in .gov) for the term copyright.

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October 30, 2005

Use Google to define words

You can use google to find definitions of words rather than looking them up in an online dictionary.
To do this, search for "define:" followed by the word (without quotes) you want to find the meaning of.
For example: "define:potato".

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October 24, 2005

How to Access a Page in Google's Cache

Normally the format of a URL in Google's cache is:
http://google.com/search?q=cache:xxxxx:yyyyy
Where xxxxx is a hash of the URL and yyyyy is the address itself.
You can access the cache of specific URL by omitting the hash part and simply using the url:
http://google.com/search?q=cache:xxxxx
For example:
http://google.com/search?q=cache:google.com

This is also possible without editing the url, by searching google for "cache:google.com"

To highlight terms within the cache'd page, add them on to the end of the search query, for example: "cache:google.com news" will highlight the word "News"

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October 19, 2005

How to Find Files With Google

This article details how to use Google to find files to download, some types of file which are easily found with this technique are eBooks and mp3s.

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The idea behind this is to find directory indexes, ie lists of files in a directory which you can then click on to download. With a bit of refinement it is possible to specify which types of files you would like to view and strip out ones which are of no use.

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