24 Ways You Can Be Using Google Search More Efficiently
Featured 08/26/2015
These will help you search the internet better.
- List View
- Player View
- Grid View
-
1. By placing quotations around a phrase, Google will search exactly for that phrase.
-
2. Using asterisks as placeholders is useful if you’re searching for a phrase and you can’t remember a few of the words.
-
3. You can exclude terms by placing a hyphen directly in front of them.
-
-
4. To only search for GIFs, just click on “Search Tools” while you are in Google Image Search. Now select “Type” and choose “Animated”.
-
5. If you’re searching for a price, use two periods to set a range.
-
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.
-
-
7. In the same way you can search related sites by replacing “site:” with “related:”
-
8. Need help calculating a tip? Just quickly type ‘tip’ followed by the amount of the bill.
-
9. By typing ‘OR’ you can look for pages that might use one of several of the words you are looking for.
-
-
10. If you add the word “facts” after any food item then Google will display all of its nutrition facts.
-
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.
-
12. info:website (website being the site’s URL) will print out everything Google can tell you about that site.
-
-
13. You can quickly learn your public IP Address by searching for “ip address”.
-
14. If you search for “weather” followed by the name of a city or location Google will return a convenient weather app.
-
15. Easily convert units or currencies by using the ‘in’ keyword.
-
-
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.
-
17. Add “origin” after a word to learn about its etymology (for example “robot origin”)
-
18. You can restrict your search to a specific type of file by using the keyword “filetype:”
-
-
19. You can limit your search results according to date of publication by selecting “Search Tools” and then clicking “Any Time”.
-
20. Safeguard your kids’ search by turning on ‘Safe Search’.
-
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”.
-
-
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.
-
23. To define any word just preface it with the word ‘define’ itself.
-
24. If you need to figure out what there is to do around town just type “attractions” followed by where you are.
- NEXT GALLERY
-
- 31 Awesome Pics to Make Your Morning
By placing quotations around a phrase, Google will search exactly for that phrase.
24/24
1/24
23 Comments