Search shortcuts are simple ways of telling a search engine specifically what you are searching, and search engines are very smart these days in giving you answers.
The Big-3 search engines (Google, Yahoo, and Ask) all offer search shortcuts, and are basically the same.
If you want the traffic for your zip code, head over to
Google, and enter the following:
traffic 93940
or on Yahoo, ask this:
traffic Monterey CA
Want a definition for a word? Google, Yahoo, and Ask will
all allow you to find it quickly by entering your search
the following way:
define plantar fasciitis
The addition of the term ‘define’ to you query tells the
search engine you’re looking for a definition for the word
that follows.
These are just a couple of the dozens of search shortcuts
the various
search engines provide.
With search shortcuts you can quickly find:
- The weather
- Flight information
- Movie show times
- Gas prices for a zip code
- Scores for a particular sports team
- Exchange rates
- Hotels information for a city or zip code
and much more…
Here are links to the shortcut homepages of the Big-3 search engines. Try these out for yourself. They can be
real time-savers.
Google:
http://www.google.com/help/features.html
Yahoo:
http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/
Ask:
http://sp.ask.com/docs/announcements/searchsmarter.html
Just a reminder, Search Automator 3 brings all the best
search technologies in the world into a single, easy-to-use
interface.
For more information about Search Automator 3, visit the
Search Automator 3 homepage.
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