Google's basic features that you didn't know about

All this reading on SEO and google has made me realize that most people don't really know much about google's features other than searches.  Here are a few examples you may find fun:

• weather
• sunrise and sunset times
• unit conversions
• currency conversion
• definitions and synonyms
• calculator

Here is a site which shows all those and more:

http://www.google.com/help/features.html


Also, a lot of people don't know how to get their searches to get more specific results.  Here is a link to a bit more google search tips:

http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=136861




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Search engine optimization and the news

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/business/media/11search.html?src=me&ref=homepage

This is scary.  Does it mean every time we surf the web we should be afraid that "reputatble" news sources are just making up articles using popular web searches to better their results in google in order for us to land on their page so that they can make more money on advertising?





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