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July 06, 2005

Better Googling

Due to what one might call the Iceberg Effect, our knowledge of software tends to be confined to a tiny portion of its potential utility. Nothing could be a better example of that than Google.

You may know that you can use it as a dictionary, simply by typing "define:" (without the inverted commas) before the word you're checking. Precede the term with a ~ [tilde] and Google will also search for synonyms, allowing you to catch something you might otherwise have missed. And of course, it's also a calculator: just type, for instance "4kg in lbs" and it gives you the answer.

There's so many useful things to learn about this search engine, that there's even a [one-hour] Google university course.

Google has its own guide, which you can print out. And it includes a very handy quick reference, which David Pogue suggests you might want to bookmark.

Posted by cw at July 6, 2005 10:15 AM

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