“Encoding Google”-Google made easy

Think “search”, and chances are you’ll think google. Here’s how we
make the reliable website better for you. At Google’s home page, if you click on Advanced search, you can access advanced options that narrow down results to more specific links.

Language:You tend to get a lot of non-English results whilst searching. By restricting your search to English sites from the drop-down box, you don’t waste time on results you can’t understand anyway.

Getting format specific:You can search specifically for, say, PDFs or PPT files. Choose the format of your choice across the six listed on the Advanced page, or exclude the results that return formats that you don’t want, by selecting the format and clicking ‘Don’t’.

Pageing specifically:

The options under the Page- Specific Search heading allow for quickly locating pages that offer services, or have content similar to that of a specified Web page. For instance, if you enter ‘space.com’ (a site for astronomy enthusiasts), the similar pages listed include some from NASA as well as Sky and Telescope magazine, and several other well-known space-enthusiast sites.

Preferences:

If you want your browser to remember your

preferences, you need to set it to accept cookies—Tools > Internet Options > Privacy for IE.

Language specific:

You can choose to restrict searches to only English pages, but remember Google also provides a reasonably accurate translation of pages in five listed languages—German, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.. If you only need English results, set it from the Advanced Search page instead.

Content censoring:

To ensure that search results do not turn up explicit sexual content, use the Safe- Search option. This can be set under SafeSearch Filtering. Choose from three levels— no filtering, moderate filtering that only blocks explicit images, and strict filtering for explicit text and images.

Here are some of the other features of google search engine:

Keyword/ symbol	Usage	Action
[+]	Chevrolet +optra	Looks for documents containingboth ‘Chevrolet’ and ‘optra’
[-]	Chevrolet -optra	Results will contain ‘Chevrolet’but not ‘optra’
[~]	~ transducer	Searches for the term ‘transducer’as well as its synonyms
OR	sunday OR monday	Results will have either ‘sunday’ or‘monday’, or both
Cache:	cache:http://www.youtube.com/	Returns Google’s cached pagesof www.youtube.com
define:	define:spams	Gives the definition of theword ‘spams’
site:	Apple site:www.food.com	Will restrict search to pagescontaining ‘apple’ only atwww.food.com
related:	related:www.timesjob.com	Will fetch results of sites similarto www.timesjob.com
info:	info:www.santabanta.com	Will present information thatGoogle has on www.santabanta.com

For more search terms check out http://www.google.com/help/operators.html