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20 tips for more efficient Google searches |
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Written by Felix Da Silva (fdasilva@bitnip.com)
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Sunday, 17 June 2007 |
 For millions of people, Google is an indispensable search tool that they use
every day. From work or school, research, to
looking up movies and celebrities to news and gossip, Google is the go-to search
engine. But instead of just typing in a phrase and wading through page
after page of results, there are a number of ways to make your searches more
efficient.
In this article written by Leo Babauta, he gives us 20 useful tips on how to use google search more efficently. Here are 5 of my favourites from his article:
Either/or. Google normally searches for pages that contain all the words
you type in the search box, but if you want pages that have one term or another
(or both), use the OR operator -- or use the "|" symbol (pipe symbol) to save
you a keystroke. [dumb | little | man]
Not. If you don't want a term or phrase, use the "-" symbol. [-dumb
little man] will return pages that contain "little" and "man" but that don't
contain "dumb".
Similar terms. Use the "~" symbol to return similar terms. [~dumb little
man -dumb] will get you pages that contain "funny little man" and "stupid little
man" but not "dumb little man".
Numrange. This little-known feature searches for a range of numbers. For
example, ["best books 2002..2007] will return lists of best books for each of
the years from 2002 to 2007 (note the two periods between the two numbers).
File types. If you just want to search for .PDF files, or Word documents,
or Excel spreadsheets, for example, use the "filetype:" operator.
Click here to view the complete list.
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