Top Ten Cool Google Tricks

All of you are familiar with the web applications provided by Google. Google Drive, Gmail, Google App Store etc are the some examples. But many few people know about some very easy and handy Google Tricks that come along with Google search engine.

Here, I am writing some of best cool tricks about Google. Please don’t forget to check Bonus at the end of the post. Hope you will enjoy.  

1. Atari Breakout: (Best One)

I think this is the best trick of Google and very few people know about this. Just you have to type images.google.com in the address bar of your browser. Now type “Atari Breakout” and press ENTER.

You will be surprised to see what happens. Just use this trick at least once. Try it.

Note: I am not responsible if you like this game and waste your time over an hour.

2. Definition:

If you want to find meaning of any word then use this trick is useful. Using this trick, you just have to write “define” followed by the word whose meaning you want to know.

For example, type “define personality” and then press ENTER. The meaning of the word will get displayed on your screen.

3.Translate:

Many of you knows about translate.google.com which is a translator provided by google. You can translate any text, words, whole web page or any document with google translator in any language.

4.Find movies and weather:

You need to type “movies” or “weather” in the search box followed by area name/city name/state name in order to display corresponding information regarding it.

For example, if you type “weather Rajkot”, weather conditions will be displayed. If you type “movies Rajkot”, the details of all the movies currently running at that place along with number of shows will get displayed. This is another cool trick I like and use.

5.Zerg rush (Just Fun Trick)

Searching for "zerg rush" returns a search page with 'O's eating the search results. Clicking each 'O' three times kills it.

6.Tracking airline flights and packages:

You can now find the arrival time and status of a flight by simply entering the name of the airline and corresponding flight number.

7.Calculator:

You can use the Google search engine as a real time calculator as well. For example, type 25+25 in the search box and press ENTER

8.Paged linked to you:

This trick is used to find out the websites and links that are connected with your website or blog. Just type “link” followed by the URL of your website or blog and you will get details about that.

9.Local search:(Bonus 1)

If you want to find local landmarks, restaurants, cinemas of any city then just type the name of the area/city and the place which you want to find. It will display all local places and landmarks.

For example, type “Rajkot Cinemas” it will display all local cinemas/theatres in Rajkot.

10. Use Google as Timer (Bonus 2)

Yes, you can also use Google Search as a timer. I think, this is the most amazing trick useful for time management. If you want to complete certain task in 10 minutes or whatever then you can simply start timer. Just open your favourite browser and type “Set Timer 10 minutes” and press ENTER.

As soon as you press ENTER you will see timer is already started. After 10 minutes when timer stops, it will alarm.

For example, if you wish to set a timer for 1 and half hour then you can type “Set Timer 90 Minutes”