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Newsletter for April 2010
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Below I have compiled a list of 7
clever Google tricks that I believe everyone should be aware of.
Together I think they represent the apex of the grand
possibilities associated with Google search manipulation tricks
and hacks. Although there are many others out there, these 7
tricks are my all-time favorite. Enjoy yourself.
1. Find the Face Behind the
Result
– This is a neat trick you can use on a Google Image search to
filter the search results so that they include only images of
people. How is this useful? Well, it could come in
handy if you are looking for images of the prominent people
behind popular products, companies, or geographic locations.
You can perform this search by appending the code
&imgtype=face to the end of the URL address
after you perform a standard Google Image search.
2. Google + Social Media Sites = Quality Free
Stuff
– If you are on the hunt for free desktop wallpaper, stock
images, Wordpress templates or the like, using Google to search
your favorite social media sites is your best bet. The
word “free” in any standard search query immediately attracts
spam. Why wade through potential spam in standard search
results when numerous social media sites have an active
community of users who have already ranked and reviewed the
specific free items that interest you. All you have to do
is direct Google to search through each of these individual
social media sites, and bingo… you find quality content ranked
by hundreds of other people.
3. Find Free Anonymous Web
Proxies
– A free anonymous web proxy site allows any web browser to
access other third-party websites by channeling the browser’s
connection through the proxy. The web proxy basically acts
as a middleman between your web browser and the third-party
website you are visiting. Why would you want to do this?
There are two common reasons:
There are subscription services and applications available such
as TOR and paid VPN servers that do the same thing.
However, this trick is free and easy to access from anywhere via
Google. All you have to do is look through the search
results returned by the queries below, find a proxy that works,
and enter in the URL of the site you want to browse anonymously.
4. Google for Music, Videos, and Ebooks
- Google can be used to conduct a search for almost any file
type, including Mp3s, PDFs, and videos. Open web
directories are one of the easiest places to quickly find an
endless quantity of freely downloadable files. This is an
oldie, but it’s a goodie! Why thousands of webmasters
incessantly fail to secure their web severs will continue to
boggle our minds.
5. Browse Open Webcams Worldwide
– Take a randomized streaming video tour of the world by
searching Google for live open access video webcams. This
may not be the most productive Google trick ever, but it sure is
fun! (Note: you may be prompted to install an ActiveX
control or the Java runtime environment which allows your
browser to view certain video stream formats.)
6. Judge a Site by its Image
– Find out what a site is all about by looking at a random
selection of the images hosted on its web pages. Even if
you are somewhat familiar with the target site’s content, this
can be an entertaining little exercise. You will almost
surely find something you didn’t expect to see. All you
have to do is use Google’s
site: operator to target a domain in an image search.
7. Results Based on Third-Party Opinion
- Sometimes you can get a better idea of the content located
within a website by reading how other websites refer to that
site’s content. The
allinanchor:
Google search operator can save you large quantities of time
when a normal textual based search query fails to fetch the
information you desire. It conducts a search based on
keywords used strictly in the anchor text, or linking text, of
third party sites that link to the web pages returned by the
search query. In other words, this operator filters your
search results in a way such that Google ignores the title and
content of the returned web pages, but instead bases the search
relevance on the keywords that other sites use to reference the
results. It can add a whole new dimension of variety to
your search results.
Bonus Material:
Here is a list of my favorite Google advanced search operators,
operator combinations, and related uses:
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