Google Search tips
Googling things often? Supercharge your Google searches with these tips to make your searches more effective and efficient.
- @twitter some word -> Search a particular social media by putting an @ sign in front of the search
- jaguar -car -> Exclude a word from your search, in this case Google will search jaguar but exclude any that have car
- “this exact term” -> Google will try and find this exact term instead of if it wasn’t in quotes it would search for content that contains those three words in any order
- iphone OR android -> search for either of the two terms
- site:nytimes.com lower east side -> Use google to search nytimes for the terms you specify
- related:espn.com -> search for related sites to the site. In this case Google will find sites similar to espn.com
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