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Get News from Google

You can use Google News to keep you up to date via e-mail of what is happening with things you are interested about.

Sign up with News Alerts (Link) and you can have the latest headlines e-mailed to you from many different news sources from around the world.

Make sure you add intitle: at the start of your search term - this limits the results you get to those where the words appear in the title of the article, and are far more likely to be about what you are interested in. e.g. intitle:paris hilton.

If just use a normal search term, you will get every story that mentions the words in the article (e.g. Today, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown met the Major of Paris at the Hilton hotel in London.)

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Added: 22nd Jun 2007

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Use Google as a Calculator

You can enter simple maths into the Google search box (Link) and it will give you the answer.

For example:
4*5
3+2
5^3

and it can even translate into different types of measurement:
4lbs in ounces
4km in miles

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Added: 22nd Jun 2007

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Keep track of websites you visit

When you are researching on the web, make sure you keep a track of websites you are visiting. You can either do this on paper, in a Word document, or can use a service like Google Notebook (Link)

This is important because, when you come to write up your report or essay, you will need to add your references at the end. It also helps if you need to go back for more information on something.

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Added: 22nd Jun 2007

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How to get definitions of a word fast

If you are looking for a quick definition of a word or phrase, Google has a good way to get this.

Go to Google (Link)
In the search box, type "define:YOUR TERM"

For example,
define:xenophobia
define:united nations

You will get a quick list of lots of different defintions pulled from different sites across the Web. You can then quote these in your essays or reports, referencing the site that they come from.