How to Use Google as a Dictionary

Paradigm.

What does that word mean?

When you need to know the definition of a word you encounter, use Google as your online dictionary!

Google can provide the meaning for the word including providing an audio pronunciation and other information.

Here's how to do it:

• to learn more about the word Paradigm, enter define paradigm into the Google search box.

• Google will return the definition for the word, a link to an audio file to hear how to pronounce the word (click the speaker icon), similar words and origins of the word.

This cool Google dictionary tip is a quick and easy way to keep on learning!

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Use Google to Search for Specific File Types

Google is full of amazing features.

One of the best is the ability to search for specific documents based upon file types.

Perhaps you are looking for a Power Point (ppt or pptx) or an Adobe Acrobat file (pdf).

With Google, you can search for these files types, plus a whole lot more.

To do so, just type filetype:xxx search terms where xxx is the document type you are searching.  

For example, to search for PDFs concerning Hillary Clinton, enter 
filetype:pdf Hillary Clinton into Google:

Search result will return the desired documents.

Google indexes a number of common file types including:

• Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf)
• Microsoft Excel (.xls, .xlsx)
• Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx)
• Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx)
• Rich Text Format (.rtf, .wri)

In addition, a number of technical and lesser-known file types are also indexed and searchable:

• Adobe Flash (.swf)
• Adobe PostScript (.ps)
• Autodesk Design Web Format (.dwf)
• Google Earth (.kml, .kmz)
• GPS eXchange Format (.gpx)
• Hancom Hanword (.hwp)
• HTML (.htm, .html, other file extensions)
• OpenOffice presentation (.odp)
• OpenOffice spreadsheet (.ods)
• OpenOffice text (.odt)
• Scalable Vector Graphics (.svg)
• TeX/LaTeX (.tex)
• Text (.txt, .text, other file extensions), including source code in common programming languages:Basic source code (.bas)
• C/C++ source code (.c, .cc, .cpp, .cxx, .h, .hpp)
• C# source code (.cs)
• Java source code (.java)
• Perl source code (.pl)
• Python source code (.py)
• Wireless Markup Language (.wml, .wap)
• XML (.xml)

You can also use the Google Advanced Search page to limit your search to several options including filetypes.  

However, not all searchable file types are available in the dropdown filetype list.

https://www.google.com/advanced_search

Enjoy!

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How to Delete Your Facebook Search History

Did you know that Facebook saves all of your site activity?

Did you know that all of your Facebook searches are saved too?

Have you searched out ex-boyfriends?  Ex-girlfriends?

Do you want to make these past search queries go away?

You can with a few simple steps.  Just follow these instructions below:

1. Click on the settings cog in the top-right corned.  Choose the "Activity Log" option from the dropdown list.
2. All of your recent Facebook activity will be displayed.  On the left-hand menu, select "More" under "Photos, Likes and Comments".  Then choose "Search"
3. Your complete search history will be displayed.  You can delete individual searches by clicking the "block" icon (the circle with a line through it) and then "Remove".  To remove all searches, click the "Clear Searches" link at the top.

That's it.  Facebook can't use your past searches for marketing to you.

Enjoy!

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The Many Searches of Google

When we think of searching Google, we usually just go to Google's main page, or use the Chrome browser's search box.

That is fine for most Google searches.

But Google has a number of specialized search sites that can assist you in finding the right information.

Check out these sites the next time you need to search the web:

Google Images - images.google.com
Search for images on the web.

Google News - news.google.com
Search news from news sources from around the world.

Google Maps - maps.google.com
Search for directions but also search for specific destinations.

Google Finance - https://www.google.com/finance
Search the latest financial information.

Google Video - video.google.com
Search for videos from around the web.

Google Shopping - google.com/shopping
Search for a variety of merchandise from thousands of merchants.

Google Books - books.google.com
Search through an extensive collection of digitized books.  Many in the public domain can be viewed completely and downloaded as a PDF file.

Google Patent Search - www.google.com/?tbm=pts&hl=en

Search through millions of patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the European Patent Office (EPO) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Google Scholar - scholar.google.com
Search for scholarly literature with this specialized site from Google.

Google Trends - http://www.google.com/trends/?hl=en
Search and explore top search trends on Google.

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Secret Twitter Photo Search

UPDATE 6/1/2015 - Updated with current instructions on how to search and filter Twitter results including Advanced Search.

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It's not so secret anymore.  In the years since this OneCoolTip first posted, Twitter has added additional search capabilities to its site.

Twitter has become the "go to" app for up-to-the-moment searches.

But with this enormous stream of information comes the challenge of how to filter unwanted results.

Fortunately, Twitter now has advanced search tools.

But first things first.  To do a photo search, enter your keyword(s) in the search box on the Twitter main page.  When the results are displayed, you can limit them to photos by selecting the "Photos" option in the top bar across the results.

In the example below, I searched for "cat" and then limited the results to just photos.

In addition, there are additional options besides "Top", "Live", "Accounts", "Photos" and "Videos".  Click the "More Options" link to show these options.

You can limit the results to just from people you follow or even from near your location.

Finally, there is a comprehensive "Advanced" Search option available at: https://twitter.com/search-advanced

The "Advanced" Search option page allows you to search full or partial words as well exact phrases and even hashtags.  Or even results that do not contain key words.

You can also search by accounts and account mentions.

And a very useful advanced search is to limit by date.

All of these options are great tools for finding the information you want from the very popular Twitter site.


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