Who doesn’t know about the most popular search engine Google?
About 4.3 billion people use Google everyday all over the world. But the surprising thing is 99.9% of people do not know how to search properly over the search engine to get the required or expected results.
So, our article today is about guiding those who have all the pieces of the puzzle on how to resolve the issues.
Let’s find these 8 most commonly needed 8 search google search tricks that you must use for the better answers for your queries.
1. “Quotation Marks”
Do you know how effective your search can be when you search any term with quotation marks?
Keep your search query in the quotation marks and then search for it so your search results will get all the results that cover your search query exactly.
Example: “Ratan Tata”
And searching this way could only get you the search results those included with the term Ratan Tata rather than going with Ratan or tata words
2. – Dashes in Search
It is a great way to curate your search according to your needs.
If you want a specific search term to be excluded from your search results then use – before the term and so exclude it from the searches.
Example: dolphins-football
Here the motto behind searching the above term is that a person wishes to search for dolphins only, not about the dolphins which are well trained in the football team.
3. ∼Tilde
∼ Tilde is a term that is the best term to use and get the searches with relevant synonyms to appear in results.
Example: Music ∼classes
Here in this search query, the results will only show the related music classes, coaching, lesions and other
4. .. Two Periods
It is the most simple and most common search query which you may generally prefer to use.
Example: 1996..20023
Searching between these number ranges manually is a daunting task but you can use these two dots in order to search between periods.
5. Filetype
This is another way to curate the search data. Using filetype to your search, you can curate the filetype to appear in Google search results.
Example: Warren buffett filetype:pdf
With this search, you can only see the results which are not included in the search.
6. Location
In order to get the news only of a particular location go by using this location in the search query.
Example: Elon Musk Location:Sanfrancisco
7. Use * in the searches
By using * before the searches makes it search for all possibilities included with the terms added
8. Filter Searches with AFTER, BEFORE
Using terms AFTER: or BEFORE: in the searches will help to curate searches with before or after date as well in order to only visit those curated list of results.
Example: React Tutorial AFTER: 2022
This search gives all the notes that people are searching for – from the mentioned year.
