No Luke Skywalker, Google is not you’re father, nor is it the dark side of the Force. However, it can make you more powerful than you could ever imagine.
How often do you search using Google? How often do you not get the results you’re looking for? That’s because Google can’t read your mind when you enter one word into its search box. After watching classmates search endlessly for an article or image and only get bombarded with totally unrelated topics and garbage results, I’ve decided to put together a few tips for better and faster searching.
- site specific searches with “site: targetsite.com”
- specific filetypes with “filtype: extension”
- search image sizes with “imagesize: resolutionhere”
- local theater times with “moviename zipcode”
- add “&imgtype=face” to an image URL to search for only faces
These are only 5 of the hundreds of operators and options available with Google, but I find them to be the most useful. Lifehacker, HubSpot, and TechTracer (1, 2) have articles that cover extensive uses of the search engine. I hope you find this information to save you time and energy in your searching!
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Nice post! I like the search for once in a blue moon :)
For SEO if you type [ link:sitename.com ] you will get a list of the sites that link to that site. (not very comprehensive but helpful) The same thing works with Yahoo.
I really liked your advice and found it useful for movie times! The site i needed came up first time when i typed in the zipcode along with the moviename! Hubspot.com also gave some good tips including the “this OR that” rule.