Module 5 Search Operators (1) 

4. Search Operators (1) 

In this module, we will further learn about different search operators that can be used on the Google
to retrieve more relevant and focused results.

1. Search on Social Media  

When you want to use Google and want to search the query on a particular social media, you can add
“@” symbol. For example, when we give queries: 

“Fifa World cup @facebook” and “Fifa World Cup @Twitter”, the results can be seen in the Figure
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1. Search for a price

Put pkr in front of a number. For example, give a query like: 

“Laptop pkr 50000” it will give you laptops whose price is around 50000 as shown in the

Searching Hash tags

On Social media, sometimes, a hash tag is very popular, if you are interested to identify such pages
using hash tag, you can use the query like: 

“#education”

You will get result like shown in the Figure 10. 

1. Exclude words from Query

One term could mean more than one thing for example word: “Jaguar” is used in two meanings such
as: animal and car. If you want to exclude all pages containing pages of cars, you can write the query
like “Jaguar -cars”.

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1. Exact Match

If you want to search for an exact phrase enclose it in double quotes, in this case, the search engine
will search where it can find the exact phrase as it is. For example, searching 
“Tallest Building in Pakistan” will give only those pages which contains exact this phrase, however,
if you give the query like: 

Tallest Building in Pakistan 

Google will give you all those pages which contains all or any of these words. 

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2. Wild Card based Searching

You can search a phrase when even you do not know what word would be there at a particular
location for example, you want to search all those pages which contains any word in the start and
then contains the exact phrase “is thicker than water”. You can write: 

“* is thicker than water”

This query will give you all those pages which contains any word in the start and then have the exact
phrase “is thicker than water”

Please note if you search “is thicker than water”, it might give you those pages where such question
has been posed or there is no word in the start, but the phrase is written like “is thicker than water”.