I’ve just returned from a conference where I’ve learnt lots of cool tips and tricks re searching Google. I’ll outline them here as I remember them and go through my notes but for starters let me introduce the tilda ~. If you put the tilda before a word on Google then you will retrieve synonyms. I’ve tried it out and it works pretty well for regular English – it doesn’t seem to work on scientific terms yet though – which is a problem that we in the scientific community so often face.
As an example here I typed in ~phone and retrieved the following
