Some helpful tips for smarter searching, courtesy of Wired (more on uploading the internet to your brain soon).
Get good sources. Add "site:edu" or "site:gov" to limit your search to school or government domains. To target specific sites, type, say, "neutrino site:Harvard.edu."
Convert currency and units. Easy: "12 parsecs in light years" or "12 dollars in euros," for example.
Check your stocks. Take a deep breath, then enter a ticker symbol to see a real-time quote.
Narrow by file type. To find PowerPoints, Excel spreadsheets, or books scanned into PDFs, add "filetype:ppt" (or any other extension) to your query.
Search ranges. Use two periods between two numbers, like "Wii $200..$300."
Expect flight delays. Type in the airline, then your flight number.
Define yourself. To get the definition for a word, just type the word define: followed by the word. Include the colon and space.
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