Google it n00b

This was something I found waaaay back in 2004, but it still works now:

Phone book. Good for businesses. You can use phone numbers too.
phonebook: computer stoke
phonebook: m smith stafford

Title pages (the bit that appears in the browser's title).
intitle:solutions
intitle:"overclockers uk"

Search within parts of a longer URL.
inurl:symantec
inurl:geeks

Search within any page text.
intext:”john smith”

Search their meta tags.
inanchor:”consulting”

Narrow down for words from one domain.
“stop error” site:support.microsoft.com
sfc site:support.microsoft.com

Forcing the suffix part of a site i.e. .EDU .COM .ORG .GOV.
“my search term” site:edu

Who links to us?!
link:www.overclockers.co.uk/

File types. Powerpoint (PPT) and Acrobat (PDF) etc.
slideshow filetype:ppt
“instruction manual” filetype:pdf

What's related? This is probably based on Google's own index.
Related:bbc.co.uk

Look up a definition like on www.dictionary.com
define “world wide web”

Calculator :-)
2 + 2 = 4
half a cup in teaspoons = 24
 
Getting my certificate in the mail soon! :D email though :(

100% on both assessments. Question 18 was tricky though!

I didn't really learn anything new, however it did show me how useful the things I know actually are. For example I've searched for things in the past and I wanted a PDF file, I would never type 'filetype:PDF' because i'm lazy, i'd just add 'PDF' to the end of my query, but the difference between the results is astounding. I'll definitely be using Google more efficiently from now on.
 
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The stuff relating to image searching was excellent, I have to do a lot of image searches at work (usually with an art director sitting over my shoulder) and this has transformed a usually painful task.
 
Has anyone got their certificate yet?
I haven't got mine :( the only thing I've got was a questionnaire a few minutes ago.
 
God i hate that i missed this :(

so much of my job involves using google, im either looking people up or researching something obscure :P.
 
Aww, this would have been very useful!! :(
It would have helped me so much at Uni and in general 'web life'.

Hopefully they will re open it at some point
 
Did it, in the last hour!

Got 100% in one attempt, i did feel the questions were much too easy except for the book one!

How did everyone do the book question at the end? I didnt really do it properly.

I found image search, esp dragging and sort by colour useful, how google works, and file type search. Intext seems useful as well as verifying by date. Ill probably forgwt a lot tho if i dont make use of it regularly
 
Ah I remember.

IIRC, it wasn't the author of the book but the author of the picture in the previous question which was in the book. When you searched for it within said book, it told you about it. Author of book was not the same as author of pic
 
Was expecting a discussion about a lack of layman advice when communicating online and people resorting to telling people to google instead of giving out offhand advice.
 
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