Google in style

DQW Bureau
28 Nov 2008



Karan Bajaj

  • Type “Cricket Score” in the search box and you will get links where you
    can check real time scores for any of the ongoing cricket matches.

  • Type your flight number (e.g. “IT 302”) in the search box and you will get
    to know by how many minutes or hours your flight is delayed.

  • Typing “, near , ” will directly display
    address/phone number of that shop. (e.g. “Pizza Hut near Indiranagar
    Bangalore”).

  • Type “company name stock” to know the latest stock price of the company's
    share.

  • Type “movie name ” in the search box, and you will get a
    list of all the theaters which are running that movie in your locality along
    with the show timings.

  • No matter which country you are in, you can get the exact time as defined
    by the GMT standards, type “time in ” will tell you current time
    in that country/city

  • Wanna know the conversion rate between US dollar and Indian rupee, or
    vice-versa?
  • Type in “USD to INR” and you will get the updated conversion rates. Works
    for other currencies as well.
  • Typing “site:abc.com” along with your search will perform search only
    within “abc.com”. So if you are looking for some tax related information you
    can simply say “capital gains tax site:nic.in”. This will return only related
    government documents.

  • Typing “weather delhi” will immediately inform you about today's weather,
    and it will also update you about what kind of weather you can expect in the
    next four days.

  •  If you want Google to search your given keyword only in the Indian
    websites. Click on the “pages from India” radio button before beginning your
    search.
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