Willem Odendaal

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Thursday, February 24, 2005 - Posts

Google Tips

I spend so much time on Google I think they should give me stock options :)

Here's some tricks I use to find what I'm looking for -

  1. After the search phrase, type site:microsoft.com. This will return only results from the microsoft.com domain.
  2. To find out what a word means, type define insane. With define being the keyword and insane the word I'm unsure of.
  3. To do conversions, type 12 pounds in kilograms. Very nice. Obviously this works for a lot of other conversions as well.
  4. And I just read about this this morning - to search for a word and all it's synonyms, use the tilde key. For example - ~food ~facts.

posted Thursday, February 24, 2005 11:05 PM by willemo

Danger: Quicksand

Wow, I only wanted to take a short 15 min break. However, getting caught up in this manifesto, it ended up to be an intense 60 minute reading session.

If you haven't been to ChangeThis.com yet, do yourself a favor and check it out. Especially the document I was talking about - Danger: Quicksand. It's about the corporate culture and how to tell when it's time to move on.

posted Thursday, February 24, 2005 5:55 AM by willemo




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