Google Search Tips

Search Tips 
  • Use a minus sign - before a keyword to exclude it 
  • Limit search to a specific website by typing site: first.  For example:  president site:www.cnn.com or president site:gov or site:mil or site:edu   Helps to get rid of non-academic sites.
  • Type in a math problem directly 
  • Write define x to define a word (type in a word where I put x)
  • Type in 35 Celsius in Fahrenheit or $250 in euros for direct conversions
  • movies or weather before any zip code 
  • use * to substitute for any word 
  • Use quotations marks to search a complete phrase
  • Read more at  https://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html