Built-in Google Search Tools

1. Calculator

   Calculators are obviously for calculating. If you find yourself in a situation where you need a quick calculator to calculate any thing, just type “Calculator” and a calculator will appear right in your search.

2. Color Picker

   Color picker is a very important tool for determining colors. Designers and app developers rely on color picker apps a lot to choose favorable colors for their projects. Typing “color picker” into your google search box will pull up a Color Picker tool immediately.

3. Unit Converter

   This simple tool helps you do unit conversions quickly right from Google Search. Just type “Unit Converter” to start converting.

4. Metronome

   As a musician, have you found yourself in a situation where you needed a Metronome so bad to time your music? That is what Google Search’s metronome tool is for. Just type “metronome” in the search and one will appear for use.

5. Flip a coin

   If you find yourself in a situation where you want to flip a coin but don’t have a real coin on you, just type “flip a coin” in your google search box and a quick tool will be provided for that.

6. Meditation Tool

   The meditation tool is an awesome tool which helps you perform some breathing exercises. This can really come in handy when you are feeling a bit nervous about an upcoming presentation or anything, Just type “breathing exercise” and the tool will show up.

7. Roll Dice

   You roll a dice right from your google search. Just type “Roll a die” an a tool will appear for that. This interesting thing is that you can even roll multiple dice all from this tool.

8. Spinner

   There is a spinner tool in google search which can be used for number or fidget spinning. Typing “20 value spinner” for example will show a spinner tool with 20 values on it.

Google Search Tips

1. Combined Searches

   Combined searches helps you to search for 2 or more things at the same time. Using this trick saves you a lot of time since you may not have to search individually for the multiple things you are looking for on google. To perform a combined search, just use “OR” in between your search terms. For example “Shoes or Belt” will perform a combined search on Shoes and Belt.

2. Exact Match Search

   Use this technique to get results which contain the exact phrase you are looking for. For exact match searches, wrap your search phrase in a quotation mark. An example is “free trips”.

3. Wild Cards

   Sometimes you may not know the full phrase you are searching for and may want to make a quick guess to see if you will get some results and this is where Wild Cards (*) come in. For example, lets say you are looking for “Game of Thrones” but you have forgotten the “Thrones” word in your search phrase, you may write it like “Game of *” in the search bar and google search will make a wild guess on your behalf to get you some good results.

4. Word Exclusion

   You use this trick when you want to search for something but also want to exclude all results containing a particular word. You do this by adding a dash (-) or minus in front of that word you want to omit. In order to test this we will search for the phrase “food for thought” but will tell google search to return only results not containing the word “food”. I doubt if we will get anything but let’s see.

5. Synonyms

   Use this trick if you wish to include results which contains synonyms of some selected words in your search term. You can achieve this by adding a tilde (~) in front of your selected words.

6. Number Range Search

   This trick helps you to search for particular items between a range of numbers. Example use “Car $1000..$5000” to return search results containing Cars between the prices of $1,000 to $5000.

7. In Url, title or body

   This trick will let google search return only websites containing your search term either in their url, title text or body text. For example “intitle:Hello” will return pages with the word “Hello” in their title, “inurl:tech” will also return site URLs containing the word “tech”.

8. Site Search

   You can search through any particular website using this trick. Entering “”site:cnn.com google”” for instance will search for the occurrence of the word google on the cnn.com website.

9. Bonus Tip: Timer

   You may be having a trivia session with some friends or any other thing which will need to be timed and you can easily start a timer from Google Search by entering timer [your number of minutes]. Click here to read about other interesting tools that have been built into google search.