24 Ways You Can Be Using Google Search More Efficiently
Featured 08/26/2015
These will help you search the internet better.
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1. By placing quotations around a phrase, Google will search exactly for that phrase.
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2. Using asterisks as placeholders is useful if you’re searching for a phrase and you can’t remember a few of the words.
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3. You can exclude terms by placing a hyphen directly in front of them.
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4. To only search for GIFs, just click on “Search Tools” while you are in Google Image Search. Now select “Type” and choose “Animated”.
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5. If you’re searching for a price, use two periods to set a range.
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6. To only get results from a specific website preface your search with “site:put-name-of-site-here.com”. Then leave a space and put what you are searching for.
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7. In the same way you can search related sites by replacing “site:” with “related:”
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8. Need help calculating a tip? Just quickly type ‘tip’ followed by the amount of the bill.
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9. By typing ‘OR’ you can look for pages that might use one of several of the words you are looking for.
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10. If you add the word “facts” after any food item then Google will display all of its nutrition facts.
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11. One of the newer features Google’s search engine offers is specific information about health conditions. For example, searching Bronchitis will return critical information that you need to know.
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12. info:website (website being the site’s URL) will print out everything Google can tell you about that site.
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13. You can quickly learn your public IP Address by searching for “ip address”.
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14. If you search for “weather” followed by the name of a city or location Google will return a convenient weather app.
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15. Easily convert units or currencies by using the ‘in’ keyword.
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16. Google makes tracking down customer service simple. By adding ‘customer service’ before the business name, you’ll pull up relevant information you need to know.
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17. Add “origin” after a word to learn about its etymology (for example “robot origin”)
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18. You can restrict your search to a specific type of file by using the keyword “filetype:”
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19. You can limit your search results according to date of publication by selecting “Search Tools” and then clicking “Any Time”.
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20. Safeguard your kids’ search by turning on ‘Safe Search’.
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21. To find something around you (like a bank or a coffee shop) just type what you are looking for followed by the phrase “near me”.
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22. If you go to Google Image Search and drag an image file into the search bar, Google will search for that image on the web.
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23. To define any word just preface it with the word ‘define’ itself.
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24. If you need to figure out what there is to do around town just type “attractions” followed by where you are.
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