There’s
a reason why Google Search has made the company into what it is today. The
Search application by Google has many things that we still don’t know about.
Here are some of them..
Searching on Google is
not just about putting in the right keywords, and you definitely don’t need to
understand what Hummingbird is all about. Google’s search application is a
powerful tool that can do a lot of things. Moreover, you don’t need to be a
geek or a computer genius to use these features. They are often as simple as
copying and pasting something onto the search bar. Here are 10 tricks that are
super easy, but you may have missed them.
1. Search on specific
websites: Did you know you could
do this? You can use Google Search to search through specific websites. So, for
example, if you don’t like the search tool on our website, you can just open
Google and type site: oracle.com followed by whatever you want to
search for. Google will search our website for you. Example –site:oracle.com
Database.
2. Reverse Image
Search: You all know that you
can search Google using Images, no not the Image search, you can actually
insert an image on the Google Search bar. What many miss is the amount of
information that you can find using this. Instead of checking the Google image
results, check the normal search results that come. You can find the source of
a picture through this. It can also be used for finding things like recipes of
certain preparations etc.
3. Auto-complete wildcards: Auto-complete is a very handy feature on
Google Search, but there’s more to it than meets the eye. Like other advanced
search engines, you can put blank in the middle of your search terms, which
signifies ‘anything’. Google will show wildcard suggestions for the term that
can be put there. So, if you’re searching for ‘how to learn English’, you can
remove the word ‘learn’ from the string and Google will give you suggestions
about what all can be put there.
4. Search for
free downloads: Remember these search
tools: inurl, intitle and filetype. If you need to search for a free Android
APK, then search using inurl:htm/inurl:html intitle:”index of” apk. This
will show you the indexes of all stored apk files.
5. Find
alternatives for websites, products etc.: We’ve
all searched on Google for comparisons between various websites ad products.
But what do you do when you don’t know who the competitor is? It’s simple, if
you want to search for a competitor to the iPhone 5S, just write ‘iPhone 5S
vs’, and Google will show you suggestions for popularly searched competitors.
6. Google cache: The cached link to different websites on
Google is highly useful. It can be used to access a website when it is down or
getting around a SOPA blackout. But, you don’t always have to click on the
cached link, you can simply write cache: along with the URL for the
site and you will have what you need.
8. Google Images
to look for people: When a person’s name
is the same as that of an object, it often returns conflicting results. To get
around this, you can just add the&imgtype=facethe to the end of
the search URL. The search will be redone and only those with faces will be
returned.
9. Time-based
search results: Google Search already
provides a filter for getting time-based results, but if you want to be more
specific, there is a way to do that too. All you have to do is add &tbs=qdr: to
the end of your URL. You have to specify the time too. Here, h5 signifies five
hours, while n5 signifies five minutes. For five seconds, write s5. So, if you
want to search in the last ten minutes, you will write add&tbs=qdr:n10 to
the URL.
10. Advanced Operators: The AND or OR operators can be used on
Google to search for multiple terms. But you already know that. What you may
not know is that you can use the AROUND operator too. This operator provides
results that are about halfway to or from the search term(s). So, you can write
AROUND(2) for using two search terms, which ensures that the two words that are
used are close to each other. The number in the parentheses can differ.
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