Google is a great search engine that caters to all of our basic search needs. However, it also has a lot of advanced features that most people don’t know about.
These features are often very useful, 8 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do with Google.
Find Out Your IP Address :
Google can quickly tell you your IP address by just typing “What is my IP” in its search box. It has a constraint in the sense that if you are on a private network such as your corporate LAN the IP returned will be that of your routing device and not the local machine.
Search Box Calculator:
The search box has a wonderful calculator feature that will give you immediate answers for simple math calculations. Mathematical operators like +, -, *, /, sqrt, ^, mod and BODMAS rules are all accepted.
Time Tracker :
You can easily find what time it is anywhere by just typing “time” followed by the name of the city and country in some cases, to view the current time in that city. For example, time india.
Apart from viewing the time, one can also check for the sunrise and sunset timings in those cities. The way to do so is to write in sunrise/sunset followed by the name of the city and country in some cases. The example below shows sunrise in Chennai, India.
Weather Forecast :
Want to know today’s weather or a forecast for the next three days, just type weather followed by the name of the city.
All in One Converter :
Be it unit conversion or currency conversion, the Google search box gives all such results as we type them. These are not search results; they are all calculated and converted. If you wish to make a unit conversion, follow the protocol”Figure unit1 in unit2”.
For currency conversion, follow the protocol”Figure currency1 in currency2”.
Stock Watcher :
If you are an investor in stocks, this will interest you. For any stock, just key in its ticker symbol and get all details on its pricing for the moment.
E-Dictionary :
There is no need to carry a dictionary, install such apps or look for an online one. If Google is always open as one of your tabs, simply key in the word define and the “word” you need the meaning for.
Search Tips :
Some tricks may help you get better search results:
- Including words within “” searches for the exact phrases.
- The operator OR searches on either one of several words.
- Generally common words like and are ignored by the search engine. We can force it to include them in our search by prefixing the word with + operator.
- We may also search for blanks in a sentence replacing blanks with an *.