Use these examples from his lessons to learn how to filter and focus your search results to get the answers you want.
You’re probably not using Google to its full advantage. Although everyone knows how to search for something, there are a few quick tips that can help you get the exact results you’re looking for, faster.
Google offers a “Power Searching” class and we took it so you don’t have to. In the class, Dr Dan Russell, a research scientist at Google guides you through different lessons. Use these examples from his lessons to learn how to filter and focus your search results to get the answers you want.
See 15 easy tips for finding exactly what you want on Google:
1. First, let’s start with some basic search features that you can use to get information you need really, really quickly.
*Type “movies” followed by a town or city to pull up a list of movies that are showing locally.
* Google “capital of” followed by any city to get a bolded answer.
* If you search “weather” followed by a city or a zip code, youll get the latest forecast.
* If you search a flight code – say Hawaiian Airlines 24 – youll get instant flight information.
* Try searching “time in Singapore” or any other city.
* Make conversions simple by searching something like “300 yards in miles” or “212F in C.”
