12 Smart Ways to Search on Google Like a pro
In this guide, we’ll learn 10 smart ways to optimise your Google search queries
We all use Google in our daily life to search our queries and we get the response accordingly. But you might have come across a situation where you searched your query but didn’t get the exact links what you’ve been searching for and waste a lot of time to find the exact piece of information you needed. It happens due to Unoptimized queries, so in this guide we’ll learn those tricks which will help save your time as well as give you the exact information you needed.
Table of content
- Site Search
- Related Words
- The wildcard
- Time Range
- File Types
- The OR operator
- Word Definition
- Calculator
- Search Exact Phrase
- Hyphen
- inTitle
- Flight Running Status
Site Search
The site keyword allows you to search on a specific site, for example if you want google to show results only for Amazon for iPhone 7, so you could type in your query as follows.
Example
Related Words
This keyword helps you to find the links which is related to the word you typed in your search query.
Example
The wildcard
The asterisk (*) is a wildcard which could fit in any query of which few words are missing. For example if you want search the lyrics of any song but you forgot few words, then this keyword will help you find your favourite songs.
Example
Time Range
The operator allows you to search your queries on the basic of time range. Let’s say you want to search movies which were released from 2000 to 2019, then you can use this operator.
Example
File Types
This operator allows you to search any specific file on the basis of its type.
The OR operator
This operator lets you find the results which contains any one word out of two.
Word Definition
By using word definition you can get the full description of the word.
Example
Calculator
For using this operator you don’t have type it, you just put your mathematical expressions on the search box and hit enter, you’ll get the result.
Example
Search Exact Phrase
Quotation mark lets you perform exact phrase search that will only include results with those exact words in that exact order.
Example
Exclude a word from the search
If you don’t want any word to appear in your search, then you can use the following way of searching.
inTitle
This operator shows you those results in which your query’s words match.
Flight Running Status
If you want to know the status of the running flight in which your loved ones are flying and you have to catch them on the Airport, then you can do this by using the following smart trick.
Conclusion
These 12 tricks will help you save a lot of time and makes you feel confident and enable you to be more productive.
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Himanshu Verma has graduated from the Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam University, Lucknow (India). He is an Android & IOS Developer and Machine Learning & Data Science Learner, a Financial Advisor, and a Blogger.
