Less known, but certainly useful Google search capabilities

Sometimes it seems that you know about search features in Google everything. I think many people use the operators "+", "-", looking for exact phrases by enclosing them in quotation marks, and synonyms are selected by prefixing the word mark "~". Recently, our reader, Vladimir Epifanov (thank you, Vladimir!) Sent link an informal guide to a Google search. There are several interesting points.

Search within numerical

for example 3..7 years

search definitions and meanings for the word - define:

For example: define: blog

Search phonebooks American cities (looking for relatives) - phonebook:

For example: phonebook: smirnov new york

As you can see, you can get addresses, phone numbers, and even data from the map service

Weather for four days - weather:

For example, weather: moscow

Supported and Russian provincial cities (at least regional centers)

Search kinoretsenzy (Eng.) - movie:

For example: movie: transformers

By the way, if you live in the States, you can also find the schedule of cinemas in the selected city: movie: nyc

Finding information about artists, their albums and songs - music:

For example, music: shakira

computing

Google can be used as a calculator, he knows: + - *% ^; sin, cos, arctan, tan; logarithms, etc. Calculator work details can be Find Help (in Russian)

Conversion of units:

50 fahrenheit in celsius

You can also use Russian in the search - 25 miles to kilometers

Currency conversion

Just write: 600 dollars in rubles

Now mixed request: 3.2 dollars / gallon in rubles / liter! (This example is borrowed from the official site has Google).