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:

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Quotation marks

"Quotation markets"

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".
— Chris Hladczuk (@chrishlad) August 28, 2021

– Dashes

– Dashes

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.
— Chris Hladczuk (@chrishlad) August 28, 2021

~ Tilde

~ Tilde

Use tilde when you want synonyms to appear in the result.

Example: music ~classes

Here you only get music classes, lessons, coaching, etc.
— Chris Hladczuk (@chrishlad) August 28, 2021

Site:

Site:

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).
— Chris Hladczuk (@chrishlad) August 28, 2021

| Vertical bar

| Vertical bar

Same purpose as OR.

Example: Netflix | Hulu

Netflix OR Hulu
— Chris Hladczuk (@chrishlad) August 28, 2021

.. Two Periods

.. Two Periods

Use two periods to search within 2 number ranges.

Example: movies 1980..2000
— Chris Hladczuk (@chrishlad) August 28, 2021

Location:

Location:

Find news related to a particular location.

Example: Elon Musk location:sanfrancisco
— Chris Hladczuk (@chrishlad) August 28, 2021

Filetype:

Filetype:

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.
— Chris Hladczuk (@chrishlad) August 28, 2021