What are you thinking about Google? A search engine, something which will display you 107 million results about Nepal. Don’t limit your knowledge of Google as just a box which will display you text, images, videos, blogs whenever you feed it with something. We have explored really some cool features about Google, you were unaware or never knew about.
There are so many features to improve your search experience with Google, the most visited website.
Unit Conversion
Absolutely recommended! Everyday we need to convert among various units. Units of length, time, mass and so on. You can convert all of the 7 fundamental units into any of the derived units as long as you know how to input the string on the Google Search box.
Tell 172 cm in inches, Google will convert the units for you as shown in screenshot.
Calculator
Another inbuilt function of Google Search is the Calculator. Feed Google will the single line expression of any calculation or expression (of course, only arithmetic expressions), you will see the result instantly. Ensure you know how to write the search string, like sqrt, *, ^ etc.
Google Definitions
Usually referred to as Google Dictionary, in fact, Google serves the definitions of many terminologies. However, the Google Dictionary is still primitive. It displays the definitions from web searched sites (3rd party) like Wikipedia, Princeton, Wikihow etc. Also like in a normal dictionary there are no phonetics and word structure as well.
To search the definition of any terminology or word, the simplest approach is to go thru Google define: term syntax. For example; to define a word satiable, type define: satiable.
Quick Weather Report
Absolutely not needed to visit any website to know the latest weather report of Kathmandu valley while you’re in Nepal or aboard. Similarly, whichever city you are in simply search Google with weather Kathmandu and you will get the quick weather report for the day and then following.
Synonym Search
Though not a Thesaurus feature exactly, you can search the synonymous word in Google. To say, you can let Google search the synonym of the word you enter to it.
Package Tracking
You can quickly track the location and status of your parcel or a package if it is shipped in via UPS, Fedex or USPS. Google returns the best package web tracking link to you, this link will direct you to into the package tracking page of the respective courier service.
This service of package or courier tracking is available Globally including Nepal.
Time of any City
Sunrise & Sunset
7:04pm Saturday (NPT) – Sunset in Pokhara |
1 hour 55 minutes from now |
Currency Conversion
For complete features of Google, visit their special search page.
for me the most popular tool is Google Translate 🙂