Google commands
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 To browse other articles on a range of HSL topics, see the wiki index. IntroductionQuery Refinement
If you want to search not only for your search term but also for its synonyms, place the tilde sign (~) Immediately in front of your search term.
Plus (+) OperatorGoogle ignores common words and characters that slow your search down without improving results. To search common words use a "+" sign in front of them Query Refinement: Plus (+) Operator Query Refinement peanut butter and jelly peanut butter +and jelly BuildBuild Query surround it by quotes, to obtain only results that contain that phrase use a star for each word of the expected answer Build Query "there's no smoke without fire" "there's no * without fire" Build Query : Build Query "pakistani dress designs" "pakistani * designs" Related SearchRelated Search To search for web pages that have similar content to a given site, type "related:" followed by the website address into the Google search box. Query Refinement related:www.cnn.com http://www.google.ca/search?q=related%3Awww.cnn.com&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a Query Refinement - Similar“I’m feeling lucky” : “I’m feeling lucky” click on "I'm feeling lucky" if you're searching for the site of a company or the official site of a product. "I'm feeling lucky" sends you to the first search result. Query Refinement “I’m feeling lucky” : “I’m feeling lucky” Query Refinement “I’m feeling lucky” : “I’m feeling lucky” Query Refinement Top Results from WikipediaTop Results from Wikipedia Wikipedia is free encyclopedia that have more than 2.9 millions articles Add "wiki" or "wikipedia" to your Google search query to find the top results from Wikipedia. Query Refinement Google's main searchinvisibly combines search terms with the Boolean construct "AND". When you enter smoke fire – it looks for smoke AND fire. 8. To make Google search for smoke or fire, just type smoke OR fire 9. Instead of OR you can type the | symbol, like this: smoke | fire OR Operator : OR Operator smoke fire smoke OR fire Keyword orderThe order of your keywords is important, so you'll get different results for "search history" and "history search“. Type only the important keywords, in a logical order. Reference Tools
To convert from meter to inches
Important Keywords
Search for a numerical range
intitle : intitle Google has some very powerful, hidden search parameters, too. For example "intitle" only searches page titles. Try intitle:herbs Google Search Keywords - intitle inurl : inurl The modifier inurl only searches the web address of a page: give inurl:herbs a go Google Search Keywords - inurl Find live webcams
infoThe modifier info:site_name returns information about the specified page Google Search Keywords - info movie : movie movie:<name of film> to look for movie reviews. Google Search Keywords - movie director : director Google really likes movies. Try typing director: The Dark Knight into the main search box Google Search Keywords - director cast : cast For cast lists, try cast: name_of_film Google Search Keywords - cast "Trends"to see the sites you visit most, the terms you enter most often and links you've clicked on! map : map Looking for a map? Just add map to the end of your query, Google Search Keywords - map faisalabad map : faisalabad map image : image Google finds images just as easily and lists them at the top, when you add image to the end of your search. Google Search Keywords - image Spell checkerdirectly by using spell: followed by your keyword Other tipshttp://antoniusalves.amplify.com/2011/01/11/100-google-tricks-for-teachers/ |
