How To Find Exactly What You Are Looking For Faster On Google

There was a time I use to spend a lot of time on
Google searching for something and sometimes, I
won't find exactly what I was looking for or before
I will find it, I must have wasted a lot of time.
I know a lot of people still face this problem. A lot
of people get frustrated because they can't find
what they are looking for. You don't have to be.
Google doesn't have all the answers to your
questions, but understanding how Google and
other search engines work and learning some
search tricks can help save you a lot of time while
still finding exactly what you are looking for.
So how does Google and other search engines
work?
When you enter a phrase in Google search for
instance, Google crawls the entire web looking for
websites that contain the same or similar
keywords and then displays them (according to
the ones it considered to be the most relevant and
safest) for you as a result.
As I mentioned in the previous paragraph, Google
looks for keywords and not every word in you
question or phrase.
Keywords here simply means the words that
Google considers to be the most important.
There are some words that Google and search
engines in general ignore when searching for your
query unless you typed only these words. These
words are known as stop words and they include
words like on, is, was, a, etc. You might consider
not including those words when next you want to
search on Google since it will ignore them anyway.
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HAVING SAID THAT, HERE ARE SOME SIMPLE
TRICKS I USE TO GET RESULT FAST ON GOOGLE.
#1. Type only the keyword (the words you
consider to be the most important). Since Google
will ignore the stop words, why bother including
them in your search query?
For example, instead of searching "my laptop
screen turn black after booting how do I fix that?",
you can simply search "laptop black screen
solution". Remember Google is a robot not a
human being.
#2. Use quotation marks to find the websites that
contains exactly the words you are looking for.
When you put your search query in quotation
marks, Google will only bring out websites that
contains the exact same phrase the exact way you
typed it.
The image below shows an example.
#3. Use asterisk (*) to search for popular quotes
or phrases that you can't remember some of its
word. An example is if you want to search for the
statement "the quick brown fox jumps over a lazy
dog" but can't remember the whole statement, you
can put the words you remember in asterisk and
Google will do the rest.
#4. Adding hyphen (-) before a word tells Google
to exclude the word while crawling for results.
A typical example is when you search for the word
"jaguar", Google will show you result for Jaguar
cars, but that might not be the type of jaguar you
have in mind.
To exclude Jaguar cars from the result in this
scenario, simply type jaguar -cars in the search
box. Be mindful not to leave a space between the
hyphen and the word.
#5. Use double period (..) to search for range. For
example, if you want to search for laptops
between the range of 60k to 80k in Nigeria, you
simply type laptops N60k..N80k.
#6. Using colon (
a. To get result only from a specific website, use
the following format. site:site URL keyword. An
example is shown in the image below.
b. To find websites relating to a particular website,
use the following format; related:site URL. An
example is shown in the image below.
c. To get information about a particular website,
use the following format; info:site URL. Here is an
example.
d. To get results for only a specific type of file, use
the filetype operator in the following format;
filetype:file_format keyword. For example,
filetype:mp3 make it shine by victorious.
Observe that there is no space between the colon
and the preceding words.
#7. If you want to get the meaning of a word,
simply type define before the word.
#8. Do you know that you can search for an image
by dragging and dropping the image into Google
image search box?
#9. If you want to limit search result to a specific
time period, click on "search tool" button, then
click on "Any time" and select the time period you
want.
You can also select a custom time range by
clicking on the "Custom range…" and put your
custom time period.
#10. You can quickly convert units by typing it in
the search box as shown in the image below.
#11. To find the weather condition of a particular
city or place, simply type the weather followed by
the city name. An example is shown in the image
below.
#12. Do you know that you can find the customer
service contact info of a company by simply typing
customer service followed by the company name?
Here is an example:
Hope that these tips helps you get exactly what
you are looking for faster on Google.
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