Jade Hill

Google search tips and tricks, huh? Who doesn’t know Google? May be the wild ones who live in the jungles of Australia. Google is world’s largest, and arguably best, search engine. We use it all the time to find data we need. We search for websites, articles, music, movies, software, real world products and services, books, images, etc, etc. And thanks to the amazing search algorithms of Great Google, we mostly find here what we search. But there are times when you’re searching for something and Google comes up with results you don’t find useful. Mostly, it’s not the problem with Google. It’s the problem with us. We don’t exactly know how to search for our desired object on the internet while we know it must be, or is, present somewhere. So, here I am today with a few Google search tips and tricks to help you get faster, easier and more useful data in your search results! Google search tips and tricks Tip No. 1: Look further Most searchers look no further than the first page of results in Google. However, Google often has more to show off than you can imagine. Look at the image below showing the number of results Google came up with for search query “camera deals”. So, make a habit of checking a few more pages of search results if you don’t find your desired thing at the very first page. Further, Google can even suggest you other search queries that people mostly search. It is often useful to check them as well. Tip No. 2: Search a particular term in exact order If you are looking for, say, some quotation, the search results may some times confuse you. It’s because Google’s algorithm may consider the words in your query in any order and show up the results that match the words. It may even omit certain words like and, then, for, or, etc, called stop words. So, the best bet in such conditions is to look up the phrase in exact order. And the trick is only to enclose it in quotation marks. Tip No. 3: Search inside a website Though not very common, but there are still websites that don’t have a search option with them. Even if there is one, the built in search engines may never be as efficient as Google. People often complain about the search results inside WordPress sites. So, it is useful to use Google for that too. And the trick is to write “site:” followed by the address of your favorite site, space and the search terms. Tip No. 4: Looking up word meaning and mathematical solutions Google has joined hands with certain quality websites to show up their data directly on its search results pages. Suppose you want to know the meaning of the word, tintinnabulation. All you need to do is to type “define tintinnabulation” in search bar and it will save you the trouble to visit dictionary websites. Similarly, you can also solve a mathematical question by typing it directly in the search bar. Below is a simple example. Tip No. 5: Search a specific file type If you are looking up for a ebook in PDF format and Google comes up with results as HTML pages, slideshows, word documents, etc, excuse Google. It’s a machine after all. Just type “filetype:pdf” after the name of the book, and settle the contention between you and your favorite search engine. Got the trick? Putting “filetype:” followed by file format suffix always works! Hope you like my collection of Google search tips and tricks. If you have some valuable tricks to share, shout it in the comments box. If not, shout these ones to your friends by hitting the share buttons at the bottom. Thank you. Happy searching with Google!S