10 Awesome Google Search Tips And Tricks To Improve YourFinances, Investing And Productivity Knowle

Google plays a big part in my life and my blogging business. Apart from it's Adsense publisherprogram which provides the bulk of this blog's income, Google's search engine provides the basisand background for a number of the topics that I write about. I am not alone with 70% of the worldusing Google Search for most of their search and online questions. However there are a lot of coolfeatures around Google search that can specifically help you improve your knowledge andunderstanding of the finance and investing world. Rather than just type in the search words, usesome of the following "super" search tips to make you more productive and perhaps even grow yourbottom line. Best of all - these are all FREE.

1. Use Google as a personal finance and investment dictionary. Not sure what a structuredsettlement is or what term life insurance is. Then use the "define:" operator to return definitionsfrom various dictionaries (for example define: capital gains tax). So rather than return a wholebunch of sponsored search results, you actually see a straight definition.

2. Key economic Indicators - Want to know the unemployment rate in California, GDP of American vsChina or population of Brazil (if investing in one of the Brazilian ETF's) then just use google to getthis data instantly. Type unemployment rate CA (13%) or GDP America ($14.6 Trillion) or GDP China($4.33 Trillion). A cool site I found when researching this article was US Debt Clock, which shows allof the key US economic indicators (in real time) for America. Some big numbers.

3. Use the "site:" operator to limit searches to a particular site. I use this one all the time, and it'sparticularly handy because many site's built-in search tools don't return the results you're lookingfor or have a decent site feature. For

example, even though I have a search feature at the bottom of this page, you could search contenton my site specifically by using a search phrase like: Another Extension to Home Buyer Creditsite:savingtoinvest.com

4. Google Finance . The reason that discount brokers like Zecco and TradeKing can offer ultra lowstock trading rates less than five bucks is that they do not need to spend a ton of money on researchofferings for their customers. That's because savvy, cost efficient investors can find pretty muchmost of the public information and recent news articles on particular stock or investment at siteslike Google Finance. Want to know the latest news and market data on Apple (AAPL). Go to GoogleFinance and search for Apple or the ticker AAPL. On the results page, you can click the link to seemore data from Google Finance such as free options quotes via Morningstar. You can use theCompare tab in Google Finance to track the performance of several different stocks or indexes atone time, or to give you a better idea of how different stocks are doing. Also, see

all the blog posts on your favorite stocks in one place.

5. Use the google search box as a calculator. Google has a built-in calculator "" try entering acalculation like 110 * (654/8 + 3). Yes, your computer also has a calculator, but if you spend most ofyour day inside a browser, typing your calculation into the browser's search box is quicker thanfiring up your calculator application.

6. Get quick currency conversions for your currency trading or that overseas trip. Google can also do

currency conversion, for example: 100 pounds in dollars. If you would like to convert minorcurrencies, be sure to be specific about the country. So, if you want to find out how many nuevossoles your dollars might buy, you could try: 100 dollars in Peruvian nuevos soles. You can also dounit conversions for pretty much any measure as well via google search. For example to figure outhow many pounds 3 kilograms is equivalent to, type in the phrase 3 kg in pounds

7. Find the Best Prices at Froogle.com. Looking for a deal on that item you want. For example, Irecently purchased a ASUS 1005PB Netbook (see my netbooks review) and to find the best price Idid a froogle search. Aamzon had the best prices and after checking at various other shoppingportals, turned out froogle was spot on. Google Shopping is another specialized google searchproduct worth checking out for some real-time bargains.

8. Flight Tracker. To see flight status for arriving and departing flights, type in the name of theairline and the flight number into the search box. Eg Type UA 893 and you will see recent flighttimes. This is a much more efficient way than

going to the airlines websites and trying to find the flight status page. Also if you are on your mobile,google search is much, much faster than a flash enabled airline website. As a frequent flier thissearch has definitely saved me time (and money) over the last few years.

9. Build a blog and some passive income with Google Adsense. If you are interesting in blogging orputting up an informational website then Adsense is probably the easiest way to make some extramoney on the side. You make money via people clicking on the Google hosted ads on your site. Ifound that visitors that come through Google search are the best for revenue opportunities becausethey are looking for something specific. It takes time and traffic though to build up a decent incomebut it is very much possible. In 2 years I went from about $1 p/day to a personal daily best of $430through the

Adsense publisher program.

10. Find and Search for images. Looking for that particular image in a presentation or forinvitations. As the old saying goes an image can tell a thousand words and Google Images allows youto search millions of images. Just make sure you pay attention to the copyright and attribution rulesfor the owner of the picture.