Life Hacker is a great source of productivity tips. E.g., this collection of Google ninja tricks that aren’t in the typical “Google how to” book. Excerpt:
2. ID people, objects, and foreign language words and phrases with Google Image Search
Google Image search results show you instead of tell you about a word. Don’t know what jicama looks like? Not sure if the person named “Priti” who you’re emailing with is a woman or a man? Spanish rusty and you forgot what “corazon” is? Pop your term into Google Image Search (or type image jicama into the regular search box) to see what your term’s about.
Another clever use of the “wisdom of crowds” is
7. Compare items with “better than” and find similar items with “reminds me of”
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