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Google is a part of your life. Don’t lie, you have a relationship.
To help you get the most out of that relationship, there’s a wonderful little site out there called Google Guide.
Google Guide is exactly what it sounds like- a huge repository of tips and tricks to make using Google a whole lot easier. The Guide is broken down into “Query Input”, “Understanding Results”, “Search Tools”, “Services” and “Developing a Website”.
To explain the number of useful things here would take forever, and it would also require copying and pasting the entire Guide.
Many people will know some (or most) (or all) of these tips, but Google Guide doesn’t want to waste your time. At the beginning of your journey through GG, click either “novices click here”, “Experts click here”, or “Teens click here.” Other than the interesting fact that somehow teens are totally separate from novices or experts, this is a great touch. It lets you weed out the stuff you probably already know, and only focus on the useful stuff.
The whole Guide will take forever to get through, but if you want to just get the basics down, Google Guide offers two cheat sheets- “Cheat Sheet” for Google searching, and “Calculator Cheat Sheet” for using Google’s built-in calculator.
You can search through the guide if there’s one particular thing you want to know. Otherwise, take a look around. There are links all over- to Google products, to a really enlightening FAQ, and to a ton of other stuff around the site and Web related to Google.
For all information about how to use Google’s search products better, don’t go to Google. Go to the Google Guide. This is one product Google needs to incorporate, because Nancy and Jerry over at GG do it incredibly well.
What cool tips do you know/did you discover for searching Google?
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