How To Use Google

I realised that a lot of people do not know some of the advanced (or hidden) features in Google. Suppose you are looking for "malware" and found this link
http://www.usenix.org/event/hotbots07/tech/full_papers/provos/provos.pdf
very useful. Do you know that you can get Google to dig out all the PDF files from the same conference/seminar/workshop (in this case, Hotbot '07) by keying in the following in Google site:www.usenix.org inurl:hotbots07 filetype:pdf There you go, you just discovered 12 articles from that workshop. If you have all the time to read Usenix technical papers, you can change inurl:hotbots07 to inurl:full_papers. BTW, I found 3,350 PDF files.

Other tricks are also very useful:

• intitle:, if you want certain words in the title
• intext:, that's the default settings, text appears in body
• -intitle:experimentation, exclude search results with the word 'experimentation' in the title
• -experimentation, exclude search results with the word 'experimentation' in the body
• site:com.sg, limit you search to domain in 'com.sg'
• "birds of a feather", to ensure all the words in the double quotes appear together
• "Birds of a feather * together", you are not sure what is the word between "Birds of a feather" and together
• sgd to hkd, currency conversion from SGD to HKD
• 103993/33102, google can do calculation
• m to in, unit conversion (metre to inch)
• any many more....

Hope you are able to discover the Nuggets.