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Google Is Great

No, no. This is not about the 'morality' of Google's business practices and all that stuff.

I just want to point out a few neat stuff about Google that you might or might not be familiar with.

I learned from someone a few years back that to learn the meaning of a word, you have to ask Google to 'define:AnyWord'.

I use that trick once in a while. Also, I love to check out the city temperatures in various top cities of the world during the peak of summer or the depths of winter.

You just have to Google Delhi Temp or NYC temp or Moscow temp and so on.

Now, here's the Google search result for 'Google search tricks'

Here's the link to the Google page where they list their search tips & tricks.

One more Google page which lists their search tips & tricks.

Oh no!! Did you see that right at the top, they say you can see an entire 'history' of your Google searches by going to Google.com/history? Now, is that exhilarating or scary?!?!

Oh Google!! Your are saving all my porn searches?!?!

Here are a few Google search tricks from Mashable.

Here are a few obscure Google search tricks.

Top Charts and Hot Searches

On a different track, here's the Google page about top charts and about hot trends and HOT new visualization.

Enjoy!

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