DiscoMoose

Normally the format of a URL in Google’s cache is:http://google.com/search?q=cache:xxxxx:yyyyyWhere xxxxx is a hash of the URL and yyyyy is the address itself. You can access the cache of specific URL by omitting the hash part and simply using the url:http://google.com/search?q=cache:xxxxxFor example:http://google.com/search?q=cache:google.com
This is also possible without editing the url, by searching google for "cache:google.com"
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You can use google to find definitions of words rather than looking them up in an online dictionary. To do this, search for "define:" followed by the word (without quotes) you want to find the meaning of. For example: "define:potato".

Google lets you narrow your search down to within a specific website, or to within a specific TLD (for example .gov).
You can do this by using the site: command in your search, for example:

java site:sun.com - searches for java on sites with the domain name sun.com (this includes subdomains, like java.sun.com)
java site:java.sun.com - more specific; […]

Google has a currency conversion feature built in to its search, all you have to do is search for 100 GBP in USD, for example, to convert £100 (UK Pounds Sterling) to US Dollars. If you don’t know the acronym for the currency you’re converting to then don’t worry as you can also do conversions […]

I’m not sure how long this has been there (a while now; I’m imporing this from an old blog of mine), but Google has added a filter on its Advanced Search page which allows you to filter search results by the license that content on a website is released under, which would be useful, for […]

It’s possible to search Google for synonyms of a word, ie other words that Google thinks has the same meaning. To do this, simply precede the term by a tilde: ~, for example: ~blog will return results for terms such as weblog and blogger as well as those for blog. If you’re only interested in […]