How to Do Number Searches with Google

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Hi, I'm Gary for Expert Village. We can also search in Google just plain numbers. In other words, if we have a search tracking number for FedEx or for UPS, we can just punch it into Google, and we can come up to the web page that will lead us to the tracking information for that package. We can also do searches for patents. We just put in the word "patent" with the number, and it will come up with websites all dealing with the patent information for that particular item. And another search we can do is for UPC codes. On the bottom of each product, there is a bar code with a UPC code. I'm going to show you that I just bought a Western Digital hard drive, and let's put in the code here. I already entered it in just to make it quicker. We see that that is the UPC code on the bottom of the box of the hard drive. When I do Google search for it, we see that even by UPC code, I can get information on the product. We see Google has returned a lot of results here on the Western Digital hard drive. We see that these are the websites that contain information about that hard drive. A lot of them are places that we can go ahead and purchase that hard drive, but it was all done by the UPC codes. We see that Google has a huge searching index of different information. We can also do a more simple search, probably more useful. Let's say we need to know an area code, or we have an area code we don't know where it's from. So we can just put in the area code. Let's take a common one. Everyone knows the New York city area code, and we hit enter. And we see that the first thing that comes up is the showing us where that area code is. We see here that it's from New York city. We have the opportunity to actually see a map of that area code which would probably show us a map of Manhattan because that is where that 212 area code is from. And so, these are all different ways we can search by numbers. So don't hesitate if you have a particular number of a code, some type of universal, global code either with a company or an index code, don't hesitate to put it in, and it would be interesting to see what kind of results you get.

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