How to Exclude a Site on Google Search
Not all search results in Google Search are directly relevant to the desired search. For example, you want to search other websites about Gfanatic. Results from www.gfanatic.com would turn out useless because you already know about Gfanatic from this site.
Another possible reason why people prefer to exclude some sites from their search is to lessen [...]
Google Commemorates Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
Today, Google commemorated the Starting up of Cern’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) by displaying a picture of the LHC on the Google search home page. The LHC is the largest particle accelerator ever created. It could lead to the discovery of the “God Particle” and could help answer questions such as:
Why do we see so [...]
Dates in Date Range Search
About an hour ago, I wanted to read stories about Squidoo and Google as references for an article I was writing. Since it was important for me to know the latest news stories or blog posts, I restricted the search results by using the date range (through advanced search).
The search results I wanted were there, [...]
Google.Com’s Data, Not Available in Trends for Websites!
I was trying one of Google Trends’s new features, the Trends for Websites, which is similar to what you see in Alexa and Compete. The feature allows you to view the number of unique visitors a site is getting, and even compare it to the visitors from other related sites. The results also show the [...]
5 Google Search Features Valuable To Students
A student asked me once, “Which search engine should I use, Google or Yahoo?” Google was my reply, of course, not just because I’m a fan, but because I know Google Search really is way, way better than Yahoo’s.
Aside from giving students relevant search results to their queries, Google has other cool features which I [...]
Google Currency Conversion Unreliable?
I’ve blogged before that we can convert a currency using Google Search. I use this search feature frequently, and have assumed that it is updated daily, until last friday.
I was watching news in my aunt’s place then, and learned that the Philippine Peso had dropped to 44.10 per US Dollar. I was ecstatic after hearing [...]
Using Date Range to Restrict Search Results
I was searching last weekened how to apply for a visa, and I wanted to know how long will it take to process the documents. However, I was more interested about the timeline of visa applicants who processed there papers recently. So I used the date range for my query, adjust it to ‘past 6 [...]
Most Googled Age-Old Questions
Who is God? What is love? How to Kiss? Google.com users in U.S. were thinking of these questions, and finally googled the answers. Here are the the links that were ranked 1, when I did my search on March 20, 2008.
Who is God?
http://www.allaboutgod.com/who-is-god-c.htm
What is love?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsCXZczTQXo
How to Kiss?
http://www.wikihow.com/Kiss
The screenshot above shows the trends [...]
Google Teaches Spelling
My friend misspelled Philippines a lot of times. It’s not only him though. In his Facebook wall, I saw some of his friends misspelled it too, when they asked him how was his time in this tropical country. I don’t blame them since this is not their country, and there also some Filipinos who misspell [...]
Google, what time is it?
There’s something wrong with my computer for these past weeks, and I am lazy to figure out what causes it. What I have observed is that when it’s already on, the date is July 2003. I am more patient to just fix the date and time rather than fix the cause of the problem. So [...]
Subscribe to Gfanatic
