Google Hacking Well let me tell You what actually google tricks mean. Google tricks/google tips, does not mean hacking google, Using the below Google operators, we can get the desired google result very quickly. Well we can name this as hidden google secrets or Advanced google searching. . GOOGLE OPERATORS Type the following highlighted words in Google search box. Google has several google operators that can help you find specific information, specific websites or inquire about the indexing of your own site, below you will find the most important ones: define: - This google operator will find definitions for a certain term or word over the Internet. Very useful when you come across a strange word when writing a post. I use this as a google dictionary. example : (define computer) info: - The google info operator will list the sets of information that Google has from a specific website (i.e. info:http://hack2007.50webs.com) site: - This google operator can be used to see the number of indexed pages on your site (i.e.site:www.hack2007.50webs.com). Alternative it can also be used to search for information inside a specific site or class of sites. link: - This google link operator allows you to find backlinks pointing to your site. Unfortunately the count is not updated frequently and not all backlinks are shown allinurl: - Using this Google operator will limit the search to results that contain the desired keywords on the URL structure. (i.e. allinurl:dailyblogtips) fileformat: - Useful Google operator for finding specific file formats. Sometimes you know that the information you are looking for is likely to be contained in a PDF document or on a PowerPoint presentation, for instance. (i.e. "fileformat:.pdf market research” will search for PDF documents that contain the terms "market” and "research”)
Cool Google Search Trickswell as we have gained enough knowledge regarding google operators, lets have a look at the following 10 cool google search tricks. Google trick to search different file formats (keyword filetype:doc) Google trick to search educational resources (keyword site:.edu) example (computer site:.edu) Finding the time of any location (time romania) Finding the weather of any location (boston weather) Tracking commentary of live events (Olympic games Beijing 2008) Using Google as a calculator (9 * 10)(143+234)(119-8) Converting currencies (1 USD in INR)(10 US Dollars in Indian Rupee) Find how many teaspoons are in a quarter cup (quarter cup in teaspoons) how many seconds there are in a year (seconds in a year) Tracking stocks (stocks:MSFT) Finding faces (add imgtype=face to the URL) Here, I 've discussed only some of the popular Google search tricks...more on this topic later! :)
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