November 12th 2007

If you want to avoid irrelevant results whenever you search on Google, use these tried and tested tips:

1. If you want to exclude a term from your search, put a minus sign ( - ) in front of the word. For instance, if you wanted to search on the word “inspirational” but wanted to exclude religious content, you would type in inspirational –religion.
    
2. If you want to look up web sites that contain two different phrases or words but not necessarily grouped together in a phrase, use the plus sign ( + ). For example, if you wanted to find a business that rents luxury cars in London, you could type london + “luxury car rental”.
    

Here are some other cool Google tips:
 

1. Want to search for a particular file type? Simply type
   [filetype:]extention for example, london + “luxury car rental” filetype:pdf.
    
2. If you want to look up the definition of a word, type in define:word.
    
3. If you want to know what the weather in London will be for the next 4 days type weather london.
    
4. If you want to calculate something, type the formula into Google. For Example: 6*8 will bring back a result of 48.