Search syntax in spreadsheets
March 10th, 2008 by rbanks
GoogleLookup Gives Us Another Reason to Use (and Love) Google Docs
“Syntax: =GoogleLookup(”entity”; “attribute”)
where “entity” stands for the name of any subject/item you want information about (i.e. a famous person like Audrey Hepburn; a city like Taipei; a chemical compound like Isopropyl Alcohol) and “attribute” refers to the type of imformation you are trying to retrieve (like Hepburn’s date of birth; Taipei’s population; or the melting point of Isopropyl Alcohol). So for example, entering this into your cell:
=GoogleLookup (”China”; “internet users”)
would yield “123 million (2006)”
PSFK
