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Turn Google's personalized search results off

You can turn Google's personalized search results off by adding &pws=0 to the URL of a search query.

http://www.google.com/search?q=trendy+bangles&pws=0


Get the local time anywhere

What time is it in Bangkok right now? Ask Google. Enter simply what time is it to get the local time in big cities around the world.

what time is it New York ( enter in Google )


Track flight status

Enter the airline and flight number into the Google search box and get back the arrival and departure times right inside Google's search results.


Convert currency, metrics, bytes, and more

Google's powerful built-in converter calculator can help you out whether you're cooking dinner, traveling abroad, or building a PC. Find out how many teaspoons are in a quarter cup (quarter cup in teaspoons) or how many seconds there are in a year (seconds in a year) or how many euros there are to five dollars (5 USD in Euro). For the geekier set, bits in kilobytes (155473 bytes in kilobytes) and numbers in hex or binary (19 in binary) are also pretty useful.


ID people, objects, and foreign language words and phrases with Google Image Search

Google Image search results show you instead of tell you about a word. Don't know what jicama looks like? Not sure if the person named "Priti" who you're emailing with is a woman or a man? Spanish rusty and you forgot what "corazon" is? Pop your term into Google Image Search (or type image jicama into the regular search box) to see what your term's about.


Make Google recognize faces

If you're doing an image search for Paris Hilton and don't want any of the French city, a special URL parameter in Google's Image search will do the trick. Add &imgtype=face to the end of your image search to just get images of faces, without any inanimate objects. Try it out with a search for rose (which returns many photos of flowers) versus rose with the face parameter.


Using Google's Date Parameters to Find Newly Indexed Pages

You can tell Google to show you how many new pages it has found in the past 7 days? Or, 8 days? Or 9?

How many new pages were added to the Google index for mattcutts.com in the past 7 days:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:mattcutts.com&as_qdr=d7

The key is the "&as_qdr=d7" at the end of this URL. It tells Google to limit the search to the last 7 days.

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:mattcutts.com&as_qdr=d (in the past 24 hours)

You can change the value of as_qdr to custom intervals.

d[number] - past number of days (e.g.: d10)
w[number] - past number of weeks
y[number] - past number of years


You can get the results over the past 2 weeks, for example, as follows:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:mattcutts.com&as_qdr=w2