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" What makes me qualified to teach you how to Google? Google, that&amp;#039;s what. Google makes everyone an instant expert. The democratization of knowledge and all that. I spent an afternoon Googling the phrases &amp;quot;Google search tips&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Google secrets&amp;quot; and learned an alarming amount. In fact, that&amp;#039;s the best tip I can give you: Take ten minutes and Google &amp;quot;Google tips.&amp;quot; It&amp;#039;ll save you hours in the end. You&amp;#039;ll find a bunch of sites with similar but useful secrets. As in: To search a specific site, such as Esquire&amp;#039;s, type in &amp;quot;site:esquire.com&amp;quot; and use the &amp;quot;+&amp;quot; symbol to emphasize a word or the &amp;quot;-&amp;quot; symbol to ignore a word. If you don&amp;#039;t know who&amp;#039;s calling your cell, type &amp;quot;phonebook:212-555-1212&amp;quot; and the name will pop up. And so on. But I also have a couple of my own Google tips, picked up from my own years of searching:   Save time by typing in &amp;quot;gogle.com,&amp;quot; instead of &amp;quot;google.com.&amp;quot; Google automatically directs you to its site. Those milliseconds add up, people. In the time it takes you to type that extra o, you could already be enjoying a reggae version of Christian Bale&amp;#039;s rant.   Go to &amp;quot;Preferences&amp;quot; and change the default display to one hundred results instead of the usual ten. This is a huge time-saver. You don&amp;#039;t have to click &amp;quot;Next&amp;quot; \u2014 you just scroll down.  Finally, the book search, which I believe is the most underutilized Google feature. Whatever the topic, search the books and you&amp;#039;ll find dozens of relevant passages (highlighted in yellow!). If you&amp;#039;re writing an e-mail or making a presentation, it makes you seem educated. And as professor Tara Brabazon says in her book The University of Google, education is... well, why don&amp;#039;t you just Google it?  RELATED STORIES:  TECH ANALYSIS: Google Latitude Is Tracking Your Every Move  FEATURE: The Google Diaspora  FIVE YEARS LATER: Why Is Gmail Still in Beta?   PLUS: More Skills Every Man Should Know   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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