How To Make The Most Out Of Google

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Weather To see weather conditions and a four-day forecast for a particular U.S. location, type "weather," followed by the location. Usually a city name will be enough, but you may also want to include a state or zipcode. For example, to see Palo Alto weather, you could search for "weather palo alto, ca" or "weather palo alto 94301."
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All weather conditions and forecasts are provided by Weather Underground, Inc.
Travel Information To see delays and weather conditions at a particular airport, type the airport's three letter code followed by the word "airport." For example, San Francisco International Airport updates can be found by searching for "sfo airport."
example: Enter Man for Manchester Airport & Same shorter codes for other UK airports.

To check the status of a U.S. flight, type the name of the airline followed by the flight number. For example, to see the status for United Airlines flight 134 search for "United 134."

example: Films

To find reviews and showtimes for films playing near you, type "films", "showtimes" or the name of a current film into the Google search box. If you've already saved your location by using Google Local, the top search result will display showtimes for nearby cinemas for the movie you've chosen.
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To find cinemas and showtimes near you for a currently playing film, simply search for the film's name.

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Can't remember a film title, or just looking for something new to see? You can use the "film:" operator to search for films related to a specific actor, director or plot detail.

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Want to read about the films you find? Your search results for any film will include an average rating out of 5 stars and several snippets from online reviews, along with links to the reviews themselves. Click the "reviews" link near any title for a complete list of online reviews of this film.

Local Search

Google Local enables you to search the entire web for just those stores and businesses in a specific neighbourhood. Include a town or postcode in your search and Google displays relevant results from that region at the top of your search results.

example: Q&A

Want to know the population of Japan? What currency is used in Algeria? The birthplace of Bono? Hit us with a fact-based question or query (like "population of Japan") by typing it into the Google search box. We'll search the web and display the answer at the top of your search results page. We also link to our source for this information so that you can learn even more.


Find the rest of the features below Google Web Search Features In addition to providing easy access to more than 8 billion web pages, Google has many special features to help you to find exactly what you're looking for. Click the title of a specific feature to learn more about it.

• Book Search - New! Use Google to search the full text of books.
• Cached Links View a snapshot of each page as it looked when we indexed it.

• Calculator Use Google to evaluate mathematical expressions.

• Definitions Use Google to get glossary definitions gathered from various online sources.

• File Types Search for non-HTML file formats including PDF documents and others.

• Films - New! Use Google to find reviews and showtimes for films playing near you.

• I'm Feeling Lucky Bypass our results and go to the first web page returned for your query.

• Images See relevant images in your regular web search results.

• Local Search - New! Search for local businesses and services in the U.K., U.S., and Canada.

• News Headlines Enhances your search results with the latest related news stories.

• PhoneBook Look up U.S. street address and phone number information.

• Product Search To find a product for sale online, use Google Product Search.

• Q&A - New! Use Google to get quick answers to straightforward questions.

• Search By Number Use Google to access package tracking information, US patents, and a variety of online databases.

• Similar Pages Display pages that are related to a particular result.

• Site Search Restrict your search to a specific site.

• Spell Checker Offers alternative spelling for queries.

• Stock Quotes Use Google to get stock and mutual fund information.

• Street Maps Use Google to find U.S. street maps.

• Travel Information Check the status of an airline flight in the U.S. or view airport delays and weather conditions.

• Weather - New! Check the current weather conditions and forecast for any location in the U.S.

• Web Page Translation Provides English speakers access to a variety of non-English web pages.

• Who Links To You? Find pages that point to a specific URL.