Tuesday, 29 March 2011

Force google.com to use English

If you go to google.com and you are not in the USA you will usually be redirected to a localised page e.g. google.es in the local language.

That's fine but for English learners its better to search in English via the English interface. Doing this will not only improve the search results (or at least return more in English) but the search suggestions (the text that appears as you type) will appear in English too.

Using Google auto-suggest feature in English

Just look for the English link at the bottom of the page or go to google.com/ncr or www.google.co.uk/

Monday, 28 March 2011

Use Google to quickly translate a word or phrase

Type translate in to Google (or Chrome's address bar) to translate any word or phrase e.g. type
 
translate rat in spanish
 

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Use Google to define a word or phrase

Type define in to Google (or Chrome's address bar) to look-up the meaning of any word or phrase.