How much is 1,690 Swedish kronor in ringgit? What time is it in Anchorage, Alaska? And by the way, how much is 10 pints in litres, or 3,569.2675 acres in hectares, or 4,590.001 sq miles in sq km?
Here are five little Google tricks you can use to get the answer to these questions in under one minute.
1. Use Google search as currency converter:To convert the Swedish kronor to ringgit, just Google 1,690 Swedish kronor in ringgit and in just seconds, you’ll get the answer. You can key in any amount of kronor.
The same goes to other currencies. However, for certain currencies such as the pesos, you need to be specific whether you mean Mexican pesos or Philippine pesos. By the way, kronor is the plural of krona, the Swedish currency.
2. Use Google search to tell the time in major cities: For instance, you can search for the term time Anchorage or time Brussels and so on, and in no time at all, you’ll get the exact answer without having to crack your head trying to figure out how many hours these cities are behind or ahead of GMT.
3. Convert metric figures to imperial figures and vice-versa: Tell you the truth, I can only memorise one imperial-to-metric conversion, that is the acre to hectare. I can tell you in my sleep that one acre is 0.40469 hectare but that’s all about it. I still need a calculator to convert any area more than one acre 
But Google makes it possible to convert metric-to-imperial-to-metric on the fly. For instance, I can just search for the keyword 3,569.2675 acres in hectares to get the answer 1,444.43131 hectares.
4. Use Google to search for information: This, is of course, the easiest part. Just key in any keyword and Google will try to find all the relevant information. If you want to search for a specific keyword however, you need to put quotes before and after they keywords.
For instance, try searching for the phrase I hate Simon Cowell. Now, try searching the same phrase but this time with the quotes “I hate Simon Cowell”. Amazing, isn’t it?
5. Last but not the least, you can also use Google to find the definition of certain words or phrases: For instance, if you want to know the meaning of a syndrome called Munchausen by proxy, just key in define:Munchausen by proxy.
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