7- Google Cheat Sheet
When we are talking about professionalism and
providing customers with a professional translation then we have to talk about
searching tools and how to reach what you are searching for easily, of course all of
us use the best search engine “Google”, so every search engine has its guide and Google cheat sheet is the guide of
how to use Google:
Google Help : Cheat Sheet
OPERATOR EXAMPLE
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FINDS PAGES CONTAINING...
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vacation hawaii
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The words vacation and Hawaii.
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Maui OR Hawaii
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Either the word Maui or the word Hawaii
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"To each his own"
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The exact phrase to each his own
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virus –computer
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the word virus but NOT the word computer
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+sock
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Only the word sock,
and not the plural or any tenses or synonyms
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~auto loan
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loan info for both the word auto and its
synonyms: truck, car, etc.
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define:computer
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Definitions of the word computer from around
the Web.
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red * blue
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The words red and blue separated
by one or more words.
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I'm Feeling Lucky
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Takes you directly to first web page returned for your
query.
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CALCULATOR OPERATORS
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MEANING
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TYPE INTO SEARCH BOX
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+
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addition
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45 + 39
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-
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subtraction
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45 – 39
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*
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multiplication
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45 * 39
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/
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division
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45 / 39
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% of
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percentage of
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45% of 39
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^
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raise to a power
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2^5
(2 to the 5th power)
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ADVANCED OPERATORS
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MEANING
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WHAT TO TYPE INTO SEARCH BOX
(& DESCRIPTION OF RESULTS)
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site:
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Search only one website
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Admission
site:www.stanford.edu
(Search Stanford Univ. site for admissions info.)
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[#]…[#]
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Search within a range of numbers
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DVD player $100...150
(Search for DVD players between $100 and $150)
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link:
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linked pages
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link:www.stanford.edu
(Find pages that link to the Stanford University website.)
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info:
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Info about a page
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info:www.stanford.edu
(Find information about the Stanford University website.)
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related:
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Related pages
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Related:www.stanford.edu
(Find websites related to the Stanford University website.)
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GOOGLE SERVICES
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URL
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DESCRIPTION
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Google Images
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Find images related to your
search term.
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Google News
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Read the most up-to-date news
stories about your search term.
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Froogle
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Find sites selling the exact
product you're looking for.
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Google Groups
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Usenet discussion group
archive dating back to 1981.
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Google Catalogs
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Search hundreds of online
catalogs.
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Google Labs
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Test-drive potential future
Google products and services.
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Blogger
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Start your own online journal
(or 'blog') with this free
self-publishing service.
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Actually, what you will use and
will help you a lot in translation from these tools are:
1-
"To
each his own", this
tool will help you find the exact phrase without separating its words so when
you type in the search text box = "To each his own" the results will contain only the
complete phrase.
2-
Red * Blue, when you type this phrase in
the search box you will find every single phrase contain red * blue for example red and blue,
red over blue,….The * here refer to a word you don’t remember as some times you
need a word that collocate with another word and you just forget what was that
word that collocate, for example: sea bed and ocean’s …..
So when
we search for what collocate with ocean to give the meaning of the bottom of
the ocean we search for = ocean’s * , we will find a lot of collocates we
choose the best…. We will explain collocations later…