Googling like a pro: tricks & tricks for the search engine
Anyone can google - but the search engine often doesn't spit out what you're really looking for. Ingenious tricks and tricks for Google search help to get the best results quickly.
Googling for professionals: How to find what you're looking for
- Basically, of course, the following applies: the more keywords you enter on Google, the more precise the result will be. However, Google often exchanges terms itself because it considers them identical.
- For example, Google only distinguishes between "Windows" and "Microsoft" if you click on "Search options" above the results and select the entry "Literal" in the "All results" section.
- But there are a number of other tricks that are not hidden in the "search options".
This is how professionals google: with the right operators to the right results
- site: - With this operator you search a certain website for a search term. If you enter "site: chip.de iphone" (without quotes), you will get all results from CHIP to iPhone.
- file type: - Whether PDF, PowerPoint, Excel file or another format, this search operator filters by file types. For example filetype: pdf iPhone 6s.
- - A simple minus sign can do more than you think: it excludes a term from the search and only shows pages that do not contain the term - for example: Smartphones -iPhones.
- * - Unsuspecting what a quotation, song or film title is? Then enter an asterisk here - for example star trek which started *.
- .. - Two points mark a range of numbers on Google - for example: DSLR 500..1000 euros.
- "" - With quotation marks you compel Google to only show search results that contain exactly this word - for example iPhone 6S "battery capacity".
Google search tricks
- ~ - You can use the infinity symbol to search for synonyms. For example ~ Apple salary. By the way: Apple pays that much salary.
- AND / OR - The additions "AND" and "OR" include or exclude certain words - for example, stock apple AND microsoft.
- allintext: - This only shows pages that contain the search terms in the text. For example allintext: iphone 7 camera error.
- allintitle: and allinurl: - The two search operators work exactly like allintext:, but refer to the title or the URL.
