To most people, Google is nothing more than a regular search engine where you type in keywords and questions and a couple of relevant links containing answers are displayed. But to many others who are in the know, Google is much more than that. It has become a multipurpose tool that you can utilize for performing a couple of day-to-day tasks.

Google has really changed the way we see and use the internet in so short a time and it's poised to even do more. Today, Google has added some cool features to its search engine platform which many people still do not know about. Below is a compilation of some of the coolest ways the big G is many life easier. With Google you will be able to:

1. Check today's date

Format: What is today

2. Know the current time in your locality and elsewhere

Format: City time

Examples: Enugu time, Tokyo time

3. Know when it is sunrise and sunset anywhere in the world

Formats: Sunrise time city, Sunset time city

Examples: Sunrise time Cape Town, Sunset time London

4. Get to know the English Premier League (and other competitions') fixtures, results, table and latest scores

Formats: EPL fixtures, EPL results, EPL table, UEFA Champions League fixtures, La Liga table, e.t.c.

5. Run scientific calculations

Formats: Google calculator, or manually e.g 546 x 664, 78 + 54, 2^2, 6 cos 7

6. Get the definitions, synonyms, antonyms and etymologies of words

Formats: Define word, Word definition, Word synonym, Word antonym, Etymology of word, e.t.c.

Examples: Define xenoglossy, Etymology of democracy

7. Convert measurements online

Examples: 458 feet to yards, 65 centimeters to miles, 34 kilograms to pounds

8. Convert currencies online

Examples: 1 dollar to naira, 1 yen to yuan, 1 pound to euro

9. Set a timer

Examples: Set timer for 10 minutes, Set timer for 1 hour

10. Discover the distance between cities and towns

Format: Distance between CityA and CityB

Example: Distance between Onitsha and Lagos

11. Know the weather conditions

Format: Temperature of City

Examples: Temperature of Jos, Temperature of Abuja

12. Know popular books, movies and works by famous authors, movie makers, actors, artists etc

Formats: Books by Author, Movies by Director, Works by Artist, etc

Examples: Books by Achebe, Movies by Spielberg, Works by Michelangelo

13. Know a movie's casts

Format: Cast of Movie

Examples: Casts of Guardians of the Galaxy, Casts of Hercules, Casts of Half of A Yellow Sun

14. Translate words

Example: Translate book to Igbo

15. Check a flight status

Example: Virgin Atlantic 201

16. Get local cinema listings

Formats: Movies for City, Movies for Area Code

Examples: Movies for Miami, Movies for 786

17. Extract data online

Examples: Unemployment rate of Britain, GDP growth rate of Nigeria

18. Track your package online

Examples: 1D4678767292920862, 1Z35678546492920862

19. Play a game online

Example: Play Pacman on Google

20. Get stock quotes

Format: Stock quote Company

Examples: Stock quote Apple, Stock quote Berkshire Hathaway, Stock quote Microsoft, Stock quote Google

21. Discover your IP address

Example: IP address

22. Highlight and ignore words

Examples: [Highlight word] GDP "statistics" in Nigeria (This will not display any webpage that does not have the term 'statistics' in it), [Ignore word] Education in developing countries -Nigeria (This will remove all webpages with the term 'Nigeria' when displaying the results)

Note: Most of these tricks only work on high-end smartphones, tablets and personal computers.

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Looking for a particular info/syntax on a particular web page eg nairaland, fao.org, olx....etc.
Type "the word, webpage"
eg "goat farming, nairaland"

Enjoy!

it can tell wen kasala is abt to burst e.g wen will ekpan boys wahala begin? wen will d next tribal tread on nairaland be opened?

Were will boko boys attack next?

Why is ebola common in only apc control states? Lagos n rivers

Nice piece.

I tried the one about finding your IP address but it only brought out general search info about IP address blah blah blah. How can I know my IP address?

Henrypraise: it can tell wen kasala is abt to burst e.g wen will ekpan boys wahala begin? wen will d next tribal tread on nairaland be opened?

Were will boko boys attack next?

Why is ebola common in only apc control states? Lagos n rivers

Ekpan abi Uvwie. Ekpan boys nor get mouth na

Nice

Here's one I came across, it narrows down your search to a specific file format doc/pdf.
So say you have a project on genetics and you need materials in .doc format, you
Type doc genetics in your google bar
Same too for .pdf,
Type pdf genetics

Checking the correct spelling of words

darlingnuel: I tried the one about finding your IP address but it only brought out general search info about IP address blah blah blah. How can I know my IP address?

google I.P locator or google what is my I.P

Search for full album of popular musicans.

Example: Intitle index of mp3 Enya

cool

Hueva said google isn't DBEST is probably a product of d 15th century

Nice write up..but honestly for me there is nothing new in the post...i thought everyone was aware of all these already

darlingnuel: I tried the one about finding your IP address but it only brought out general search info about IP address blah blah blah. How can I know my IP address?

Try "What is my IP." If that doesn't work try googling "IP address" from your device's (assuming it's a mobile phone) default browser (not something like Opera Mini)

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imsuboi: Front page material

Tnx

Raddie: Here's one I came across, it narrows down your search to a specific file format doc/pdf.
So say you have a project on genetics and you need materials in .doc format, you
Type doc genetics in your google bar
Same too for .pdf,
Type pdf genetics

Good one. That works too.

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DStarrx: Good one. That works too.

Glad I could share

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Nice one bro. Very educating

Profcamsey: in case u MAKED front page

And it did

So kul.

Google, saving me and making me win arguments since 1900.

Nice.
I will try them sha.





























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Google aside,I tot I was broke, until my neighbor told me he wanted to sell his kerosene stove for N150 so he can buy 2 indomie super pack & one egg!

The mods are competing for first to put on fp

Naira land jobless MODs are rushing one topic to front page while my own birthday thread lies obscure