Google is the best search engine which gets almost 1 billion views daily.Not many unlike computer geeks would have been familiar about the advanced Google search tricks and so this guide will help my readers to master the art of searching tricks.Technically speaking Google has been programmed amazingly with an algorithm that will make the users to get their search results in the first page itself.There is a famous quote that i would like to share here is that “if you wanna hide a dead body,then use the page 2 of Google”.I request you to go through this complete search tricks guide provided here to get the best out of Google.
Advanced Google Search Tricks Guide
First let us see what are operators and how they can help us in filtering the search results.Operators are the symbols which you would have read during your school days.Some of the basic operators are
- ” “
- +
- –
- .
- *
- ~
How to inject them in our search queries to retrieve the precise search results ?Let me explain you with an example for each trick.I will try to make this search tricks guide as simple as possible.
” ” operator is used for searching an exact phrase or a word.
For example the search results for how to play a piano will differ from “how to play a piano”.When you add the words between the quotes then only the websites which has the exact phrase are shown.Try it and see the difference yourself.
+ operator is the best operator to search for additional keywords along with the search result.
For example if i search for eminem + songs then it retrieves the websites that containing the word eminem and additionally with the word songs.But now Google has removed this feature and replaced it with the ” “.So now you have to search like eminem “songs”.
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– operator is used for eliminating a word so that the word following the – operator will never be searched.
For example if i need to search for my result of 2012 then i would search normally as exam result of anna university 2013 but what google does is that it also searches for the exam results of 2011,2010 and so on.To eliminate all those then i will search as exam results of anna university 2013 -2010 -2011 -2012.Hope its clear for you.
..(two dots) operator can be used for searching the results between two conditions.
For example if i need to know all the movies which are released between 2010 to 2013 then i would search as Movies 2010..2013.
* operator is used to search for the matching results.
For example if i want to search for all the words starting with the word fee then i have to search as fee* which will display results for feed,feeding,feeder,feeds etc.So you can play around with the * operator by inserting it at the front,back and both or in the middle.
~ operator is used to search for related terms.
For example if i need to get all the results of an institutions then i have to search as anna ~universtity which will display the results for anna school,anna college,anna university etc. okay so far so good now lets move onto the remaining search tricks.
Google Search Tricks using (colon) :
To search for a particular file type use Filetype:
For example Filetype:pdf ethical hacking will display the websites which has the ethical hacking pdf files.Similarly you can search for audio,video,executable files also.I have already shown an example in my previous post for filetype.Have a look at here : Top websites to download PDF Files for Free
Now you would have got an idea about this search tricks and so let me give only the list of other keywords that can be used with a colon.
- Intitle
- inurl
- define
- author
- site
- link
- related
- location
- source
Did You Know ?
- Drag and drop any image on google search bar and it displays the relevant results about that image.
- rajeshsundu@gmail and r.a.j.e.sh.sund.du@gmail.com are both same while logging through Gmail because Google neglects the dots in an email id.
- Google is a calculator.Type 2+9/8(3.5) in the search bar and you can get the exact answer.
- Google is a currency converter.Type 1$ into Rupees and you can get the answer.
- Google can search and give you for live security cameras.
- Go to settings=>labs from your gmail account and there you can find unique features that can be enabled with gmail.
This article is written by Allindiayouth who writes on Intermediate 1st year results 2014.
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