I’m always amazed that more people don’t know the little tricks you can use to get more out of a simple Google search. Here are 10 of my favorites.

1. Use the “site:” operator to limit searches to a particular site. I use this one all the time, and it’s particularly handy because many site’s built-in search tools don’t return the results you’re looking for (and some sites don’t even have a search feature). If I’m looking for WWD posts about GTD, for example, I could try this search: GTD site:webworkerdaily.com.

2. Use Google as a spelling aid. As Rob Hacker — the WWD reader I profiled last week — pointed out, entering a word into Google is a quick way to see if you have the right spelling. If it’s incorrect, Google will suggest the correct spelling instead. Additionally, if you want to get a definition of a word, you can use the “define:” operator to return definitions from various dictionaries (for example, define: parasympathetic).

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Google has been the leading search engine in Pakistan as well as rest of the world for as long as I can remember. Launched as a small beta start up in 1996 at the domain google.stanford.edu using inexpensive hardware, you wouldn’t think then that it would ever become the success it is today with so few useful Google alternatives available.

In fact, in 1998 when it first went live on the official Google.com domain, the beta was publically labeled by its creators as a “might-work-some-of-the-time-prototype”.

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With Microsoft launching Bing and merging with Yahoo, combined, their market share have received a tremendous boost. But what does Google have in store to counter this? Well, guess what? They have launched their new search engine by the name of Google Caffeine. This new search engine is super-fast and more accurate in obtaining results than Google’s present search engine.
Now let’s review Google Caffeine’s features that make it faster. There are three main categories which are to be noted:
Speed: How fast can the new search engine load results?
Accuracy: Which set of results is more accurate to the search term?
Index Size: Is it really more comprehensive than the last version of Google?

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