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)
Note: Most of these tricks only work on high-end smartphones, tablets and personal computers.
Looking for a particular info/syntax on a particular web page eg lawboyz.heck.in, fao.org, olx....etc.
Type "the word, webpage"
eg "goat farming, lawboyz.heck.in"
Enjoy!
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