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How to Use Yahoo to Find Local Gas Prices
Last summer,we featured an article detailing how to use Google to find gas prices. If you read that article, you will notice that it is kind of a pain in the neck to view gas prices in Google. In the past year, Yahoo! has been busy rebuilding is brand. Yahoo has incorporated many new features into its search engine, some may have been even better-implemented than Google’s features.
For example, it is much easier to find gas prices using Yahoo. First of all, you don’t need to navigate into your preferences, it’s on by default. Also, the gas prices show up right on top of the search results, rather than buried in the middle of the page like Google’s gas prices.
How to Find Local Gas Prices
All you have to do is go to the Yahoo Homepage and type in gas [your location here]. You can type in the city, city, state, or ZIP code. Here’s an example:
How to Use Google Stock Screener to Pick the Perfect Stocks for your Portfolio
As we showed you last Wednesday, Google Finance is filled with amazing features, such as the ability to view charts of the major stock indices’ performance over a period of decades. That article drew a pessimistic comment from one of our readers stating that we were just demonstrating another way to get depressed about the current economy.
However, with Google’s Stock Screener, you can easily choose stocks that are high performers, even in this current economic downturn. It’s easy! To use the Stock Screener, all you have to do is head on over to Google Finance at www.google.com/finance.
View an Interactive Graph of the Dow Jones Industrial Average Using Google
With all of the publicity the stock market has received in the last six months, I really wanted to see how far the Dow Jones Industrial Average has fallen in the past six months. As you will find out below, the Dow Jones recently hit a 12 year low in the past week.
Fortunately, Google makes it easy to view a graph of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, as well as other stock indices. You can also view graphs for individual stocks.
How to Use Google to Find a Graph of the Dow Jones Industrial Average
To view a graph of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, all you have to do is type dji into Google. Google brings up a page of results showing you the current stock price and a graph of today’s activity, as shown below:
How to Use Google Maps to Get Directions to Kayak Across the Pacific Ocean
Recently, someone asked if Google can give you directions from one continent to another. They tried getting directions from Berlin to New York. Unfortunately, when you do this, Google tells you that it can’t calculate directions:
However, when you try to cross the ocean closest to Google’s headquarters, Google becomes much friendlier!
How to Use Google to Translate a Webpage
How many times have you come across a webpage that you want to read, but can’t because it is written in a language you don’t understand?
Google knows a lot of languages. You can easily put Google to work translating any web page for you. Let’s say I want to learn about some current events in Brazil, and I want to get my news directly from a Brazilian website. I went to the webpage of Globo, a popular media outlet in Brazil. After a few clicks, I ended up finding this article:
