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Some of the simple Google search tips to note

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Google, the most popular search engine giant has in it some simple tricks that everyone must know. Google Search has some amazing and cool things that everyone must try and so here in this piece of article I am putting together all of those Google search tips in this article, so you can make use of them and make your Google experience smarter.

  • Type “weather” followed by your Pincode which will bring you the current weather in that particular place that you have to enter the Pincode of
  • You can even type “movies” followed by the Pincode to get the results of the various shows and timings in that area.
  • You can easily find the definition of a word that you are searching for by simple typing “define” followed by the word you want the definition for.
  • Enter the airline and flight number to track the current position of the flight and to know its arrival time.
  • You can even type the tracking number of packages like FedEx, Ecom, etc to get the tracking link of the product.
  • See the webpages or websites that are linked to a particular website by typing “link:” followed by your URL.
  • To get only the PDF files in the results for the word that you have searched, just type the word followed by the keyword filetype:pdf. This is a better way to get the online manuals of various products.
  • You can actually use Google search as a calculator, just type an equation and pressing enter will give you the result.

These simple tricks are very much helpful for daily usage and I hope you make use of these search tips and be a Google power user.

Better and Improved Search With Google Activity Cards New Update

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Want to buy something? – Google
Wish to know about a product? – Google
Want to search about something? – Google
Would like to cook some new recipe? – Google

The above statements are just a few simple examples, they are proof that our lives are literally revolving around Google. The search engine giant has been making changes to the Activity Cards and is going to help the users better in their Google Search. Google Activity Cards is something that shows up in the Google Search to help you pick up where you left off the last time when you were searching using similar keywords. The cards are now going to have more information that will help your search more useful and easier.

See How Google Activity Cards Will Help

How It Helps Job Search

The new update in the activity cards will make the job search easier for those who are looking for opportunities. The users will now see more relevant job openings related to their search and in this way, they don’t actually have to spend much time scrolling for jobs that may suit your requirements.

How It Helps In Online Shopping

Online shopping has been gaining much importance in this pandemic situation where everyone is restricted to their homes and all the shops being shut down, online shopping has turned out to be the best choice these days as it is not just convenient but also safe. Activity Cards will now surface products you have been searching for. The cards will provide you all the information that you might be looking for and help you in making your decision better.

How It Helps In Recipe Search

The pandemic has been bringing out the hidden chef in all of us. And Google has become our forever source for finding interesting, new recipes to try. Google Activity cards will surface related recipes, and show up a handy thumbnail image to make it easier for you to choose the right one.

All these changes to the cards have already started rolling out. So, you will soon be able to use them.

You Can Now Recharge Your Prepaid Phone from Google Search

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With the new feature from Google, it has now become easier to recharge prepaid mobiles here in India. You can recharge your prepaid SIM cards right from Google Search on your Android smartphone. The mobile operators that are in support of Google as of now include Airtel, Vodafone-Idea, Jio, and BSNL.

There are plenty of ways to recharge your phone’s prepaid plan and some of them are USSD codes, official apps, and bank clients. But Google thinks it can do better, and it’s now bringing another way to top up your plan in India.

The company has announced the ability to browse for and purchase prepaid phone plans via Google Search on Android.

To use the feature, you need to just perform a Google search query. It can be something like “Prepaid mobile recharge” or “SIM recharge”. In doing so, you will see a “Mobile Recharge” section in the search results where you get the option to enter your mobile number, operator, and circle.

When you are done with filling in all the details in the fields, you need to tap on Browse Plans button to view the available plans. Similar to dedicated mobile recharge applications, you will be shown the popular, full talk time, 4G/3G/2G data, special recharge, roaming, top-up, and recommended plans in their respective sections.

You can further choose and browse the options accordingly and get the recharge done.

A Few Things That Make Yahoo Search More Worth Than Google

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Google search is the world’s most popular search engine undoubtedly, it is also the most widely used search engine. But there are a few interesting and most useful things that only Yahoo search is capable of doing. It doesn’t matter how much you are used to searching in Google. Here we present you to some of the really cool tricks using Yahoo search that make Yahoo a better option. In fact, we are going to tell you some really interesting tricks that you will be capable of doing only using Yahoo.

Search Tips For Making Yahoo Search Better

Take a look at the few search tips that only works with Yahoo.

  • Composing emails in Yahoo is quite easy with the help of this search tip as you just need to search !mail prisat@outlook.com, which is the keyword mail followed by the mail id to which you wish to send the mail. Searching this will open the new email message in your Yahoo Mail
  • You can get the lyrics of a particular song from your favorite artist very easily using yahoo. You just need to type Linken Park lyrics if you want lyrics for all his songs or Linken Park’s heavy lyrics for getting the lyrics of the Heavy song
  • Putting the square brackets on both the sides of your keyword that you are searching for will bring you the results of the exact keyword.

Ex: Searching [Taylor Swift] will only get you the results of web pages with Taylor swift in them and not Swift              Taylor

  • Get the Wikipedia pages of some people or any website or any other thing that you may want to know directly from the Yahoo search. Just type using the keyword !wiki India, which will bring India’s Wikipedia page

These search tips make Yahoo useful than Google search.

A new speed test tool available in Google search now

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We should all be very much thankful to the search engine giant Google as it always keeps on introducing new and useful features to its users and excites them making their browsing experience much better.

The tech giant has its very personal and own fiber internet service with the name Google Fiber. However, Google Fiber project doesn’t take off well and is now almost ready to get out of the market.

But very recently Google search has made a very simple to use speed test tool right on the top of the search results. It is the basic urge of the internet users that they would like to know the speed of their internet connection. Speed test by Oakla is the most widely and popularly used speed test tool. But this recent tool from Google has made the task of the internet users much easier. All you have to do if you wish to use this new tool is just search using the term speed test in the Google search. And the first result show up there on the screen is the new speed test and you can find an option with run speed test there, just click it to run the test and then it will present you with the results.

This feature is spotted very recently and Google is still testing this feature, so don’t be disappointed if you don’t find this feature.