Eight Googling tips you probably don’t know
We frequently use Google at work and home for research but most of us don’t know how to optimise our Google search.
A Twitter user shared a few tips that can make our search easy, more precise, and can save time.
Chris Hladczuk shared a few short keys for Google search. Here are some key tips:
Quotation marks
"Quotation markets"
— Chris Hladczuk (@chrishlad) August 28, 2021
Put quotes around search terms to let you search exactly for that word.
All results will have your terms in it.
Example: "James Clear"
Gives you all James Clear search results without just "James" or just "Clear".
– Dashes
– Dashes
— Chris Hladczuk (@chrishlad) August 28, 2021
If you want to exclude a term from your search, include a hyphen before that word.
Example: dolphins-football
You just want dolphins the animal not dolphins the professional football team.
~ Tilde
~ Tilde
— Chris Hladczuk (@chrishlad) August 28, 2021
Use tilde when you want synonyms to appear in the result.
Example: music ~classes
Here you only get music classes, lessons, coaching, etc.
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Site:
Site:
— Chris Hladczuk (@chrishlad) August 28, 2021
Use this to search within a specific website only.
Example: Kevin Ryan site:chrishlad..com
This searches for Kevin Ryan mentions on my website (chrishlad dot com).
| Vertical bar
| Vertical bar
— Chris Hladczuk (@chrishlad) August 28, 2021
Same purpose as OR.
Example: Netflix | Hulu
Netflix OR Hulu
.. Two Periods
.. Two Periods
— Chris Hladczuk (@chrishlad) August 28, 2021
Use two periods to search within 2 number ranges.
Example: movies 1980..2000
Location:
Location:
— Chris Hladczuk (@chrishlad) August 28, 2021
Find news related to a particular location.
Example: Elon Musk location:sanfrancisco
Filetype:
Filetype:
— Chris Hladczuk (@chrishlad) August 28, 2021
Filter by a certain file type related to your search.
Example: warren buffet filetype:pdf
This filters out all the click bait news Buffet news article you don't want to read.
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