Handy Google Search Tips: 19 Simple Tricks You Need To Know

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/30/google-search-tips-tricks_n_665048.html

Some very cool things I didn't know about google!

[upi402]

1. some common sense, some good ideas

for the handy ones i already have bookmarks

tracking tip is new though, for me!

[Speck Tater]

2. When you get a call from an unknown number on your cell or caller ID

type the number into Google before you answer. If it's robo-callers or spam sales calls there are sites that compile lists of those numbers and you will usually find out in seconds that it another damn call from 603-589-7211 (Allstate Auto Club trying to sell you something), so you don't have to bother answering.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=603-589-7211&btnG=Google+Search

[pipi_k]

4. I do that all the time

more often than not, there's a whole slew of sites where people have complained about receiving calls from the same number, although often the name(s) of the company using the number are not the same.

[Speck Tater]

6. Several years ago the company I worked for shared a building with a telemarketing firm

These people did calls for a large number of different clients, so it's no surprise that people get calls from the same phone number, but calling for different companies.

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3. Huffpo needs to get with the program

These tips have been around for some time, and are readily available on Google's own site...along with a lot more tips that Huffpo didn't even mention:

http://www.google.com/landing/searchtips/

Boolean operators for advanced search have also been around for years. If you don't know what boolean operators are...Google it! :D

You knew that joke was coming, now, didn't you? :)

[WinkyDink]

5. I still find Google useless too often. Netscape offered way more discrete websites in a search.

That's "discrete".