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Look up data in the search bar

Look up data in the search bar

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Look up data in the search bar

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- [Instructor] Google contains built-in shortcuts that search and display the results for us instantly and specifically. This video is all about looking up data. I can start by putting in exactly what I want to know. In this case, a flight number. I'll put in a very specific flight number. I can already see some preliminary results but I'll click on it and here I can find a much easier-to-read view of this flight. I can search through each day and I can even see the terminal and gate number that it left from and that it's arriving to. If I go to my next tab, I can paste in a UPS tracking number and this works for all sorts of global companies. I can put in the word define, followed by a colon followed immediately by the word I want to look up with no space. The definition will come right up. I can even look up nutritional information. On the right-hand side, Google will display a lot of little applets. For…

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