Google search has become basic need of our lives and why not, you have any query, you type it in Google and you get the answer. But it is not always that simple. Sometimes you get a lot of time wasted in searching something while Google continuously shows you irrelevant searches. This happens because of Google’s algorithms, say, when you write the phrase 'high protein diet' You get the search results including these individual words, not necessarily present in order. When you search inception you get almost every result relating to the movie, but what if you want to know about inception concept alone and through out all results containing movie, what if you want to search in specific site only, what if you want to search product at given range of prices. This post gets you all covered with complete details and examples to make you a pro once and for all. So let’s get things done. Using Google Search operators Quotes “” Suppose you want to search the entire phrase i
Most useful Google Search operators and tricks for precise and specific Google Searching. Find result in one go
Google search has become basic need of our lives and why not, you have any query, you type it in Google and you get the answer. But it is not always that simple. Sometimes you get a lot of time wasted in searching something while Google continuously shows you irrelevant searches. This happens because of Google’s algorithms, say, when you write the phrase 'high protein diet' You get the search results including these individual words, not necessarily present in order. When you search inception you get almost every result relating to the movie, but what if you want to know about inception concept alone and through out all results containing movie, what if you want to search in specific site only, what if you want to search product at given range of prices. This post gets you all covered with complete details and examples to make you a pro once and for all. So let’s get things done.
Grapes AND bananas
Using Google Search operators
Quotes “”
Suppose you want to search the entire phrase in order. If you do it normally, you may get mixed results contains individual words in phrase, not necessarily the entire phrase, so in this case, you may use the quotes operator. Simply put your sentence inside quotes and you are good to go.
Example just put quote around your phrase as
“we'll always have paris”
And you are good to go.
Exclusion –
When you search for something like inception, you will get always get searches containing inception movie, to get searches related to inception as a general concept you simply wish to exclude the pages containing 'movie' tag. Well you can do that by simply putting minus in front of search.
Example you can search like this
Inception -movie
Well this is not limited to just one Exclusion, you can exclude multiple entries at once like
Inception -movie -nvidia
To filter out searches like Nvidia's inception program. You can also exclude phrases like
inception -movie -"NVIDIA Inception Program"
You can on exclude multiple phrases and words in one line.
INCLUSION +
Just the case opposite to previous one, you like in include some words in search to make it specific. Simply put +word in front of search. For example type
Apple +fruit
And this will exclude all apple company pages from searches which are else dominant without this inclusion. You can also use multiple inclusion exclusions in single line for more personalized search.
Wildcards *
You want to wrap you search in quotes to get exact in order match for search, but you forgot some part of it or want to have it flexible only in one part not in rest, say, you want to search for nick fury quote 'I still believe in heroes' but not sure if it is the avengers or heroes, just search like
“I still believe in *” Nick fury.
Or the common confused to include pages using literal 'and' or ampersand symbol '&',just use * in place of and it will display all results with variable word in place of *. You can use range operator .. in case of numbers example
OnePlus 3..7
Will return results like OnePlus 7, 6, 5, 3 etc.
Synonyms ~
Well Google by default gives you searches including searches containing synonyms of keywords you used, but not when you use quotes to restrict it to search for specific phrase but, if you want to also include synonyms for certain word, just put ~ before that word. For example
“~sad songs of *”
Will give you results having similar words in place of sad, but not anything like happy if you had used *.
Logical operators AND OR
Well they work pretty simple, AND used between phrases will return results with both of them and OR (or you can use |) return results with either of them. For example search.
Grapes AND bananas
Grapes OR bananas / Grapes | bananas
You can also use () to group them as
(Grapes | bananas) buy
Site searching site:
Suppose you want to search something, not on entire web, but on website of your choice. Just search normally except add site:sitename.xyz to your search. Example you want to search on Forbes.com, search as
India's richest site:forbes.com
You can also only use sites name without any search query to get topics from specific site only, for example
Site:forbes.com
Will basically return pages on forbes.com
You can also use site: operator to search on specific domains only, example
Top celebrity site:.uk
Or simply search for site:.uk
For list of all sites ending with co.uk
File searching filetype:
Say you just need PDF on certain topic and do not want to go to multiple sites and search files in there, which gets frustrating at times. Well use filetype:PDF in your search to get the job done. For example type.
Special relativity filetype:PDF.
Now afterwards just add these operators in your search and make it a routine to always get a precise search results and save you time.
Head over to our another article for generel Google search tricks.
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