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bigfoot

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Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 10:52 pm Post subject: Very useful GOOGLE command: meanings and defs |
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When you need to know what a word or idea means, try this in google (www.google.ca). This is the command (without the quotations):
"define: XXXXX"
It gives you a pretty good list of definitions, including their sources. Good for articles and tech queries. |
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dogbert

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katydid

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Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2004 12:53 am Post subject: |
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Dat was da coowest thing evew, Dogbewt.  |
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baldrick

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Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2004 4:14 am Post subject: |
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There are a fair few tricks you can use when using search engines generally - maybe everybody knows these but :
Using " " allows you to search for entire strings eg:
Searching the following
Daves ESL Cafe
would make google search all sites that contained the word Daves, the word ESL and the word CAFE
Searching
"Daves ESL Cafe"
means it searches for sites where those words appear in the that form, ie, next to each other.
You can also the + sign to combine seaches, e.g.
ESL + resources
or a really advanced one
"ESL teaching" + resources
Sorry if I'm stating the obvious but maybe someone out there dosen't know this!
There are more as well. |
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katydid

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Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2004 8:20 am Post subject: |
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I did a search for a website that would show the conversion of liters to quarts and it automatically told me the measurement. |
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chiaa
Joined: 23 Aug 2003
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cacheSurfer

Joined: 07 Dec 2003
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Posted: Sat May 01, 2004 8:22 pm Post subject: Re: Very useful GOOGLE command: meanings and defs |
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bigfoot wrote: |
When you need to know what a word or idea means, try this in google (www.google.ca). This is the command (without the quotations):
"define: XXXXX"
It gives you a pretty good list of definitions, including their sources. Good for articles and tech queries. |
i personally like the "images" part of google.
simply click on the "images" tab and you can find pictures of almost anything.  |
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