Google Search

Google Search has revolutionized the way we gather information. There are now a number of similar search engines, but Google offers a lot of great interactivity between its various products so we will limit ourselves to talking about Google Search here.

Nearly everyone uses Google or another search engine (remember AltaVista? it was subsumed into Yahoo in 2013 and Babel Fish now redirects to Bing...), but not everyone knows the shortcuts that you can use to tailor your searches.
With these, you can limit the search to specific words or phrases, exclude specific words from a search, search through a specific website or domain, narrow your search to certain years, etc.
You can also use "fuzzy logic" to search for synonyms of a specific word, find sites that link to a particular website as well as sites that are related to another site. Take a look at the infographic below to learn more.

Why not give some of these shortcuts a try!