20 Tips For Better Google Searches : Customize Google

By David Bénard, published on May 7, 2008 at 9:40 AM
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Customize Google

The Firefox extension Customize Google is nothing less than essential — and it’s also free. Not only will this easy-to-use utility allow you to improve how you structure your Google searches, but it can be used to customize Gmail, Google Documents and Maps as well. With Customize Google, you can also block ads, see favicons for Web pages, specify the number of search results that are retrieved, and remove click tracking.

Download Customize Google

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Deleted profile 05/08/2008 1:22 AM
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Google calculator, which can convert units, is also very handy. For example, type in "100 m to ft" and Google returns "100 meters = 328.08399 feet". It can also handle calculations involving units: for example typing in "(9.81 m/s^2)*(10kg)" will yield "(9.81 (m / (s^2))) * (10 kg) = 98.1 newtons."
Deleted profile 05/09/2008 3:53 AM
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From the Article:
For example, "NFL football ?doping" will generate results related to "NFL football" while excluding those that mention "doping" and subjects related to the word.


The correct syntax should be "NFL football" -doping
psouza4 05/12/2008 8:27 AM
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It is exactly this kind of zealous biasy that drives me to question my faith in Tom's Hardware reviews and statistics: something I've trusted for many years. I've been putting up with this growing problem for a rather long time, but now it's reaching new lows.

First of all, I feel Google is a wonderful resource, and though I have some anti-trust issues with them, I happily feed my Google habit daily. That said, I don't feel a guide on Google tips needs to depict an employee at the end with so much out of place... from political agenda to product placement, there could be very few ways to make it more offensive to the idea that Tom's Hardware should be trusted as a non-biased source of information.

Nevermind that this article is riddled with typographical errors -- I liked the common interest it was headed until this final page. Some of you may roll your eyes at this post, too (trust me when I say it's out of my normal practice to be vocal about my complaints of a website), but this has been a problem that's grown progressively worse.

Tom's Hardware needs to wake up and get back on the right path...
fransizzle 05/21/2008 9:47 AM
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Honestly, speaking as a long time reader, the overall quality of the site (especially the spell checking) does seem to have dropped significantly since the last big overhaul. I too hope that they will get back to publishing more solid reviews and less of this poorly edited fluff.

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