Effective Googling...

• Need Exact Phrase? Use quotation marks! “infosys billion dollar”
• Expand Search With Synonym? Use a “tilde” e.g.: “~infosys” finds IT companies similar to Infosys
• Search by filetype (pdf, ppt, xls, doc) e.g.: “.Net Framework” filetype:ppt
• Negative Search Terms e.g.: “nano –car” will return the results with word ‘nano’ but not Tata Nano car
• Limit your search results to a particular web site e.g.: “sparsh site:infosys.com” will get the pages from infosys.com where the word ‘sparsh’ is referred `
• Search for sites that link to a particular website: e.g.: “link:infosys.com”
• You’ve found a useful website & want to find other sites like it: e.g.: related:www.infosys.com”
• Google is a DictionaryFind definition of a word or a phrase? e.g.: define: chaos
• Google is a Calculator as well ; type 2*2 and you will get 2*2=4