I remember hearing the "Google-fu" expression forever ago on the Coding Horror blog. While my Google-fu may be a little stale, here goes what I use quite often.
123 * 45
Can be quicker than your firing up the calculator and typing it there.
1 usd to brl
The graph displayed along is quite nice.
translate cadeira
No need to navigate to translate.google.com just for that.
no silver bullet filetype:pdf
Watch out because pdf files can be dangerous. Always double-check the URL.
no silver bullet site:news.ycombinator.com
"why * is my favorite programming language"
Quotations and asterisk goes together just like... oh well.
DuckDuckGo-fu
I've used DDG for quite a while in the past and I remember fondly how smart some of its replies can be:
shorten wikipedia.org
wikipedia.org down
qr wikipedia.org
password
password 20
weak password
strong password
json beautifier
url encode aรงaรญ
calendar 1 jan 1999
lorem ipsum
html chars
ascii table
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