15 Fun Things You Can Do With Google Search

Google Books lets you do a lot of things: find a book you're interested in, search within a book's text, download a book, search reference texts, and even create your own library of your favorite books.

Find updated news stories with Google News. You can use this search service to explore news based on subject (science, health, local stories, etc.), save stories and searches, and find recommended news for you based on your interests.

You can use Google to quickly look up movie information, movie reviews, movie showtimes, theater locations, and even movie trailers. Simply type in the name of the movie you're interested in, and Google will return the information you're looking for.

Google Maps is an amazing resource. Not only can you use it to find maps and driving directions, it also serves as a business search engine, lets you take virtual walks down the street, shows a history of everywhere you've been, overlays satellite images, lets you share your location with others, and a whole lot more.

Google Earth is a highly detailed globe that runs in your browser. It provides a powerful way to visualize satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, and more.

You can also learn while using Google Earth because it includes Knowledge Cards about landmarks and guided adventures that take you around the world to explore cities, unusual lakes, mountains, and more.

You can use Google Translate to translate word, sentence, block of text, your email, or entire document into a different language, or your own if you don't understand it. A huge number of languages are supported.

Google is a great way to find basically anything on any web page, including phone numbers. This means you can use Google to find someone's phone number with a simple search like this, where his zip code is included to help find the correct person:

"joe smith" 10004

If you don't know the person's name but you do have their phone number, Google might be able to help you find it with a reverse number search:

555-123-4567

Not sure what that word means? You can use Google's define option to find out. Simply follow it with the word in question to see its definition, like this:

define:quirky

Included in the results is a list of definitions, an example sentence, synonyms and antonyms, the option to translate the word, and information on its origin.

You can use Google Groups to find a discussion about pretty much anything, from parenting or the latest Marvel comic book to politics and more.

You can use the Google Images search tool to find any kind of image you might be looking for. Options are available to filter the results by size, color, usage rights, type of picture, and more.

Another way to use Google Images is as a reverse image search engine where you can find pictures that look like one that you have.

You can use Google to plan a trip, including search for flights and hotels, access travel guides, find top restaurants in the area, and more.

When you explore a particular destination, you'll find things you can do there, the best times to visit, travel articles about that area, and more.

Something else you can type into Google Search to get unique results is weather followed by a location. This is one of the easiest ways to get the weather report anywhere in the world.

There's a current temperature reading and weather condition, as well as the chance for precipitation and a week-long forecast.

You can use Google Finance to research stocks, track financial news, and more.

Without entering a search term, you can find top stories and local/world market information.

Need a quick answer to a math problem? Type it and let Google Calculator figure it out. For example, you can type into Google a problem such as 2(4*3) + 978 to instantly get the answer.