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I didn&#8217;t know that feature was there in Google and it turns out there are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/intl\/en\/help\/features.html\">many more useful search features too<\/a> &#8211; things like the weather forecast, films at the local cinema, etc. (as well as the well known stuff like definitions, inbound links and Google&#8217;s cache).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just before Christmas, someone showed me how to use Google (yes&#8230; the search engine) to convert values between units (e.g. kilometres into miles). 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