{"id":24014,"date":"2022-08-08T09:52:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T13:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=24014"},"modified":"2022-08-08T13:40:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T17:40:29","slug":"google-search-is-a-whole-lot-more-than-just-a-search-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/google-search-is-a-whole-lot-more-than-just-a-search-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Search is a Whole Lot More Than Just a Search Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">Google Search is a Whole Lot More Than Just a Search Engine<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">How to get the most out of Google Search<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2022\/google0.png\" alt=\"Get the most out of Google search - Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"600\" height=\"287\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Most of you know that Google search is more than a search engine, it can covert currency, track a package, convert U.S. measurements into metric and vice versa, give you the time in any city in the world, show sports scores, local weather, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/websearch#topic=3378866\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google has a features page<\/a> that displays all these features and a whole lot more and puts them right at your fingertips.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2022\/google.png\" alt=\"Google's features page - Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"600\" height=\"591\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2022\/google1.png\" alt=\"Google's features page - Cloudeight InfoAve\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2022\/google2.png\" alt=\"Google's features page - Cloudeight InfoAve\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Let&#8217;s take a look at one of the sections of the Google Search Features Page&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">DO MORE WITH SEARCH<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Refine web searches<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">You can use symbols or words in your search to make your search results more precise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Google Search usually ignores punctuation that isn\u2019t part of a search operator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Don\u2019t put spaces between the symbol or word and your search term. A search for site:nytimes.com will work, but site: nytimes.com won\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Refine image searches<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Overall Advanced Search<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Go to Advanced Image Search.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Use filters like region or file type to narrow your results.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">At the bottom, click Advanced Search.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Search for an exact image size<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Right after the word you&#8217;re looking for, add the text imagesize:widthxheight. Make sure to add the dimensions in pixels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Example: imagesize:500&#215;400<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Common search techniques<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Search social media<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Put @ in front of a word to search social media. For example: @twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Search for a price<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Put $ in front of a number. For example: camera $400.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Search hashtags<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Put # in front of a word. For example: #throwbackthursday<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Exclude words from your search<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Put &#8211; in front of a word you want to leave out. For example, jaguar speed -car<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Search for an exact match<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Put a word or phrase inside quotes. For example, &#8220;tallest building&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Search within a range of numbers<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Put .. between two numbers. For example, camera $50..$100.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Combine searches<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Put &#8220;OR&#8221; between each search query. For example, marathon OR race.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Search for a specific site<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Put &#8220;site:&#8221; in front of a site or domain. For example, site:youtube.com or site:.gov.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Search for related sites<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Put &#8220;related:&#8221; in front of a web address you already know. For example, related:time.com.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">See Google\u2019s cached version of a site<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Put &#8220;cache:&#8221; in front of the site address.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Important: Not all search operators return exhaustive results.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Learning all you can about everything important to you is one of the best things you can do for yourself. And to us, at least, being able to master all the features of a search engine like Google makes it a whole lot easier and quicker to find what we&#8217;re looking for and\/or do what we want to do without wasting a lot of time<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">We use Google search to do conversions. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">You can convert just about anything using Google search. Try it. Type &#8220;convert 22 C to 22 F&#8221; without the quotes and you&#8217;ll learn that 22 degrees Celcius equals 71.6 Fahrenheit. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Type &#8220;convert 200 AUD to USD&#8221; (no quotes). As of today, 200 Australian dollars equals $139.75 United States dollars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">We use Google search to track packages. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">To track a package (USPS, FedEx, UPS) just copy the tracking number, paste it into a Google search, and press Enter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>We use Google search to look up word definitions and spelling.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">And to translate words or phrases from one language to another. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">And we do it all from Google&#8217;s address bar (Omnibar as Google calls it.)\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">We use Google to search for a lot of things, including searching the Web.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">If you want to know what you can do with Google search and how to do it then <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/websearch#topic=3378866\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit this Google page<\/a><\/span> and you&#8217;ll learn how to get the most out of Google search.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/websearch#topic=3378866\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Give Google&#8217;s Features page a try soon.<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Google Search is a Whole Lot More Than Just a Search Engine How to get the most out of Google Search Most of you know that Google search is more than a search engine, it can covert currency, track a package, convert U.S. measurements into metric and vice versa, give you the time in any city\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/google-search-is-a-whole-lot-more-than-just-a-search-engine\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2247,2270,4183],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24014"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24022,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24014\/revisions\/24022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}