10 Google Search Techniques You Might Not Know

Google is a very popular search engine serving billions of people worldwide. We can search whole web using Google. In fact in this modern world, internet without Google is like computer without electricity. Google is necessity for all. Everyone uses Google. May be it can be Gmail or for watching videos on YouTube. All these networks are owned by Google. Google we use for research purpose, students use it for gaining extra knowledge or for projects, and businessmen use it to see stocks and market shares. Some people search recipes, news and many things we can get in Google. Today, I will share 10 most interesting and helpful techniques which you can use in your search to get effective results.

Before I start with the list, let’s understand how Google actually works. Ever wondered how it works? We just type google.com and search whatever we want but we don’t know how Google searches things for us. I have added a video by Matt Cutts, Head of web spam team in Google. He says Google doesn’t actually search the web. It searches Google’s index of the web. The search engine robots called spiders crawl on the web and returns a set of 10 pages with relevant keywords. See the video below. You will understand it easily.

So now you know how it works right?

Let’s start with the list. In each of the trick I will show you how to perform it to get best results. These tricks are known as Google advance search. Say bye to normal searching and start advanced searching.
Here we go.

1) Google’s Site Search

Want to search other sites without opening that site? Yes, you can do it. We have to use Google dorks to do this. Google dorks are nothing but a special keyword or code which does specific task. Here we will use “site:” dork. Suppose if you want to search in techsamay, use “site:techsamay.com YOUR QUERY” (without quotes). Simple. You may see results only from techsamay. It is very useful when you want to search the whole site.

2) Image Search

Image search is also main thing when we need some images for our projects or for anything. Do you know there are many hidden tricks which you can use? For example, we have search by images. It is the best tool. Suppose you have picture with you of any office and you don’t know name and address, just upload it and search. You will get all details of that office. It works quickly. Also suppose you are finding charts or bar graphs, just go to search tools in image search, then click on color and select white. You will see only charts and graphs. You can use other colors too and also other tools. Check them all.

3) Search for exact phrases.

Suppose you read something in the internet and you want it again afterwards and you don’t remember the website name or perfect URL, this will help you to find that. I personally use this trick. It is awesome. You can search a particular exact phrase or word. This can be done using two double quotes. Example: “stay hungry stay foolish”. You have to search with quotes.

4) Conversions

Google can also convert some data for you. If you have to find the value of 1 US Dollar in Indian Rupees, you can use this trick. Search for “1 USD to INR” It will show you result. You must know currency codes. You can also convert other things like “1 meter to centimeter” or “1 tablespoon to teaspoon”. Don’t use quotes in this. It will work fine.

5) Define Search

Finding definition for something? Use this trick. Just type “define” before your term and see the magic. Example: define computer. You will find definitions for that term in first result page. So it saves your time too.

6) Calculator

Now this is amazing. Google has inbuilt calculator too. This calculator is scientific. You can compute various trigonometry ratios also. Just type “calculator” in search bar to open it.

7) Weather

Do you know what the weather in your locality is? Google knows! Search weather reports on Google easily. You just have to type “Weather” Simple. It will show weather of your area.

8) Related websites.

If you are not satisfied with a particular website, search for more. You can search for related contents which you got in previous site. You have to type “related:yoursite” (without quotes). It will return all related websites. Example: related:google.com

9) Search by File Type.

Using this technique you can find your content in the form of documents or pdf. Google also indexes these types of documents. You just have to type the code as “filetype:pdf YOUR QUERY”. You can ask for PDF file, DOC or PPT.

10) Excluding words from search.

Suppose you are finding some person in Google named Bill Jones. But when you type Google returns with mostly Bill Gates results because he is popular more than that person. So to narrow your search just put a hyphen mark before gates and that word will disappear. Example: “Bill Jones –Gates”. In this, Google ignore all sites with “Gates” as keyword and you may find right person.

Finally you know all the 10 best tricks to search in Google. There are many but I have listed only important ones which is really useful in our daily life. This can help anyone. The main intention to use this tricks is to minimize the time and for accurate results. Hope this helps you to know more about your favorite search engine Google.

Happy Googling!

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