Also, if you look hard enough, and you input the right keywords, you can turn Google into your own personal tool for finding your way into some systems that you shouldn't be in. But, alas, I am not going to go into that much depth to teach you that. So here are some keywords and phrases I tend to use (almost on a daily basis) to make life that much easier and to minimize the amount of web pages I have to go to so I can find the information I want.
All of the following keywords can be entered into the normal search box on Google.com just like any other inquiry.
Use Google as a dictionary
The first keyword I use is the "define:x" keyword. Define does just what you think it does, it defines the word following the semi-colon. So here's a screen shot of me using the keyword and what it returns.
This keyword lets you view what are called cached (saved) copies of just about any website the Google spider bots have crawled across at just about any point in time. The keyword is used as follows "cache:www.example.com". So for example you can do "cache:www.slashdot.org" and it will return old versions of that website that you can browse through. Of course you won't be able to do much on that site besides look at it, but it is a means to find out exactly what was going down that day if you ever were curious.
Using Google to find EXACTLY what you want
The last keyword I'm going to throw at my readers is not actually a keyword at all. It's more or less punctuation you can use to refine your search. It is simple the double quotes ( " ) around whatever you would like to search. This will return results that have EXACTLY (and I mean that) what you typed, how you typed it, and in precisely the same order as you typed it. So if I searched for something like...
"I love my fedora"
Google would return this...
And with that last keyword I'm going to leave an info picture (infographic) that has MANY more keywords and tricks for you to use, if you so choose.
(As always, click on my pictures to see the full sized images)
