30 Things You Didn’t Know Google Could Do!

Notes based on Andreas Johansson‘s ISTE presentation “30 Things You Didn’t Know Google Could Do!” Video of his presentation is available at: http://youtu.be/FU5VnJt7tRY

1. Movie Showtimes: “movie title [zip code]” (EX. “The Internship 78251”)
2. City Population: “San Antonio population”
3. Facts about people: “Davy Crockett Death”
4. Facts: “Mount Everest height”
5. Sports: “San Antonio Spurs”
6. Weather: “weather San Antonio TX”
7. Sunrise: “sunrise San Antonio”
8. Local time: “time”
9. Foreign time: “time Sweden”
10. Dates of holidays: “2013 Christmas eve”
11. Calculate: “5+2” OR search Calculator
12. Convert: “5280 feet into meters”
13. Stocks: “GOOG”
14. Define: “define polyglot”
15. Translate: “translate the dog ate my homework into spanish”
16. Food: “barbecue restaurant San Antonio Riverwalk”
17. Drive time: “Akron OH to Chicago IL”
18. Remove results: “Spurs -basketball”
19. Search within a website: “population statistics site:usa.gov”
20. Phrases: “phrases close your eyes and I’ll kiss you”
21. Filetype: “hand washing filetype:pdf”
22. Reading level: Search Tools, Reading Level
23. Related: “related:abcnews.com”
24. Google Trends: Real Time (google.com/trends/)
25. Public Data Explorer: (google.com/publicdata/directory)
26. Search by image
27. Google Voice (voice.google.com)
28. Google Translate (translate.google.com)
29. Google Alerts (google.com/alerts)
30. Chrome:
    • Pin Tabs
    • CTRL + SHIFT + T: Opens recently closed tab
    • CTRL + SHIFT + N: Open new window in incognito mode.
    • CTRL + 1 through CTRL+8: Switches to the tab at the specified position.
    • CTRL+Tab or CTRL+PgDown: Switches to next tab.
    • CTRL+Shift+Tab or CTRL+PgUp: Switches to previous tab.