Best Google tips / tricks – 5 unknown Google tips / tricks – Google shortcuts / tips / tricks

If you’re a die-hard Google home page user like I am, it’s always nice knowing some shortcuts to get info faster.  Yes, you can type in some boolean, archaic, non-tech service friendly language that Google will remember.  But, do we have time to learn a new language?  Nope!  My wife can attest to that as I’ve been trying to learn Hebrew for over a decade and well, let’s just say I’m still very fluent in English.

Here are the top 5 Google tricks to make searching must faster:

1. Local search – Visit local.google.com directly to find neighborhood restaurants, movies, and of course, NYC computer repair companies.
2. Find weather and movies – Just jot in weather or movies and the zip code i.e. movies 10016 and your results will pop up automatically instead of digging into movies.com or fandango.
3. Instant caller ID – Not sure who just called you?  Google the phone number to find the name and address.
4. What does that mean?  – Get a quick definition of a word by typing define <word>.
5. How much? – Need to add something?  Just type in your calculation in Google for the answer.