GENERAL
INFORMATION
- How old is
[Fernando Alonso]?
- Where was [Cristiano
Ronaldo] born?
- Define
[colloquial] (or “What does [colloquial] mean?”)
- What time
is it in [New York]?
- Search for
[photography tips]
- Show me
pictures of [the Leaning Tower of Pisa]
- Do I need
an umbrella today? What’s the weather like? What’s the weather in [New York]
[this weekend]?
- What the
[Google] stock price? What is [Apple] trading at?
- What’s [182
yards] in [miles]? What is [12 ounces] in [liters]?
+
Forces words to be included in search results. Useful with stop words that
otherwise will be discarded
-
Prevents a search term to show in results, for example
searching for doughnut -cream can help you to avoid
creamy doughnuts
Date Range:
Returns documents modified in the given time interval. Dates should be entered in Julian format (so geeky, but a bit unusable). Using doughnuts daterange:2454091-2454101 you can find who talked about doughnuts in the last ten days of 2006 :)
File Type:
Returns links to documents with the given file type. For example searching for doughnuts filetype:java will find portable and object-oriented doughnuts. Currently officially supported file types are pdf, ps, wk1, wk2, wk3, wk4, wk5, wki, wks, wku, lwp, mw, xls, ppt, doc, wks, wps, wdb, wri, rtf, swf, ans, txt, but other are supported as well, like xml, cpp, java etc.
All in Title:
Search for documents with the given words in their title. allintitle:doughnuts chocolate will find all the documents with title
containing ‘doughnuts’ and ‘chocolate’. This operator cannot be combined with
others.
In Title:
Search for documents with the first word after the in title operator in
their title. intitle:doughnuts chocolate will find all the documents with title
containing ‘doughnuts’ and talking about chocolate. Note that the word
‘chocolate’ is not necessarily in the title.
+ – * / % ^ !
3+2 returns 5
4-1 returns 3
6*8 returns 48
15/5 returns 3
3^2 returns 9 (3 raised to power 2)
5%2 returns 1 (the remainder after division)Returns n factorial: 3!
Sqrt / Nth Root Ofx
sqrt(49) returns 7, if you need non-square roots you can use for example: 3th root of 27.
Sin / Cos / Arc Tan / Tan…
Google calculator supports various trigonometric functions, expecting a
radians value, that can be expressed also using the pi constant: sin(pi/2), tan (2/3*pi)
In Degrees / In Radians
You can convert
radians to degrees:
You can convert
degrees into radians:
In Hex / In Binary / In Octal / In Decimal
You can convert to
each of the given bases: