Google Search Tricks from Tom's Guide

1. Get firefox extension, Customize Google
2. Surround keywords with quotes
3. Use at least 3 keywords
4. Use the * wild card
5. Limit search by using minus (-) character. Chewy -food, returns chewy but not food
6. Specific filetypes, chewy filetype:pdf
7. Specify number of results, &num=5 in result querystring
8. Brackets, (“www.tomguide.com and AMD” or “Pentium*”)
9. Limit search to a website, site:www.tomsguide.com firefox
10. Remove spam filters by adding this to querystring, &filter=0
11. Synonyms (doesn't seem to work), ~vicarious
12. Spelling Options, Penryn|Penrin
13. Google Calculator, 100 m to ft
14. Word Definition, define:isotope
15. Currency Conversion, 50 dollars in euros
16. Language Translation
17. Google preferences, link is located right side of search bar
18. Google News
19. World News
20. Finding the right image size, in google images click on the "all image sizes" box, below the search bar.
21. Images search setting, filter based on format, colors, size