GOOGLE SEARCH TECHNIQUES

SEARCH ENGINE TECHNIQUES

We often use search engines for finding particular sites on
the Internet. Without search engines, looking something
up on the Internet would be almost impossible.
The problem with search engines is that you either get too
many hits or too few hits.
Most of us enter a key word and then hit search.
However, there are some very unique strategies that you
can use and different search engines you can use in
different ways to narrow down your search.
HOW GOOGLE SEARCH WORKS
Google search is NOT case-sensitive. three or THREE
will give same result.
Singular is different from plural. Searches for apple and
apples turn up different pages.
The order of word matters. Google considers the first
word most importance, second word next, and so on.
Google ignores most little words, which includes, I,
where, how, the, of, an, for, from, it, in, is.
Google ignores most punctuation, except apostrophes,
hyphens, and quote marks.
Google search word limit is 32.

GOOGLE SEARCH OPERATORS

SEARCH FOR AN EXACT WORD OR PHRASE

Use quotes to search for an exact word or set of words
on a web page.
This is helpful when searching for song lyrics or a line
from a book. But only use this if you're looking for an
exact word or phrase, otherwise you'll exclude many
helpful results by mistake.

Examples:
"failure to discriminate between disciplines"
the search techniques



EXCLUDE A WORD


Add a dash (-) before a word or site to exclude all results
that include that word. This is especially useful for words
with multiple meanings, like Jaguar the car brand and jaguar
the animal.

Examples:
jaguar speed -car
pandas -site:wikipedia.org

SEARCH WITHIN A SITE OR DOMAIN
Get results only from certain sites or domains.
For example, you can find all mentions of "olympics" on the NBC
website, or any .gov websites.

Examples:
olympics site:nbc.com
olympics site:gov
site:gov "income tax

Some domains include:
.gov - government agencies
.edu - educational institutions
.com - commercial businesses
.org - non profit organisations
.mil - military
.in - India
SEARCH FOR PAGES THAT ARE SIMILAR TO A URL
Find sites that are similar to a URL you already know.
If you search for related sites to thehindu.com, you'll
find other news publication sites you may be
interested in.

Examples:
related:thehindu.com
related:bookmyshow.com





WILDCARD OPERATOR
Add an asterisk within a search as a placeholder for any
unknown or wildcard terms.
Use with quotation marks to find variations of that exact
phrase or to remember words in the middle of a phrase.

Examples:
"a * saved is a * earned
narendra modi signed the * bill this week
SEARCH FOR A NUMBER RANGE
Separate numbers by two periods without spaces (..) to
see results that contain numbers in a given range of
things like dates, prices, and measurements.

Examples:
Nokia phone Rs 2000..Rs 5000
fashion icons 1920..1960
samsung digital camera 10..20 megapixel
FIND INFORMATION ABOUT A SITE
Get information about a URL, including the cached
version of the page, similar pages, and pages that link
to the site.

Example:
info:iseeindia.com
info:google.com
SEE A CACHED VERSION OF A SITE
See what a page looks like the last time Google
crawled the site.

Examples:
cache:xerox.com
FILE TYPE
This allows to search for a particular file type in internet.

Example:
Agile Scrum filetype:ppt
TFS filetype:doc


OCCURRENCES IN THE TITLE OF PAGES
intitle restricts your search to the titles of web pages.
allintitle finds pages in which all the specified words
appear in the title of the web page.

Examples:
intitle:"Helen Keller"
soup recipes intitle:vegetarian
allintitle:"nike" running
allintitle:"money supply" economics
OCCURRENCES IN TEXT OF A PAGE
intext searches only body text. That is, it ignores link text,
URLs and titles.
While its uses are limited, its perfect for finding query
words that might be too common in URLs or link titles.
There is allintext also which will search for all the
specified words.

Examples:
intext:html
intext:yahoo.com
allintext:north pole

EXAMPLE
GOOGLE AS CALCULATOR
We can do all arithmetic operations in google.
Example:

Operators
Description
+ Addition
- Subtraction
* Multiplication
/ Division
% of Percentage
^ or ** Raise to a power
mod or % Modulo
ith root of 4th root of 16; cube root of 8; square root of 9
CONVERSION
We can convert from one unit to other.

Example:
2 mi to km
5 foot 3 inches in cm


GOOGLE SITES FOR SPECIFIC SEARCHES
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