Google.com has been a great search engine and is widely used by those of us that have seen the light. To have some fun I recommend that you try the following tips and tricks with the google search engine.

Google has the ability to search for files with a specific dos extension.
search terms filetype:ext try searching for doc, mdb, xls pretty amazing stuff you will find out there.

Tried to find information on a large corporate site with no luck try this.
search term site:anysite.com

Want to know who is linking to a specific site.
link:bbsnets.com

Sometimes you can find to many sites want to limit your queries to only report matches in the title of a site try this allintitle:search term