We all are familiar with Google, A invention which revolutionize our world in every aspect, We can’t imagine the today world without google specially when you are young student, researcher or anybody who work over an internet. it made simple to us just keying the search word into google which google called ‘keyword’ and get millions of pages of information in return.
But is this the goggling (google search) is all about ? The answer is no and i tell you that you are just familiar with basic search of google and will not experience the true power of google yet. A basic google search is just enough to find good result but not best out of them. if you want more out of google or you can’t get the result in way you want then this article is for you.
Basic Search Operator
Searching is a technique that organize the information according to certain constraint or rule in case of google searching that rule is search keyword therefore the result of searching mainly depend upon our skill of providing a appropriate keyword.beside an appropriate keyword the google enhance your search option with many operator rarely known to anyone.
for example take a keyword ’windows archives’
When we search it like windows archives google finds the pages for word windows and archives.we can change the entire search result and make it more specific by just inserting two character or symbols i.e. “windows archives” know it forces google to find the page containing both the word in exact phase as they are written. Try more by clicking on the words.
| Operator | Example | Do What | Result |
| windows archives | nothing | pages for word windows and archives | |
| “ ” | “windows archives” | forces to find it as exact phase | page containing both the word in exact phase as they are written |
| ice age | nothing | all result of keyword ice age mainly ice age movie. | |
| - | Ice age -movie | remove movie result from it. | result about ice age period on earth. |
| + | google + and + i | forces words to be included in search results | pages include google and i result |
| OR | Tiger OR Lion | search for keyword1 or keyword2 | search information on tiger or lion |
Advance Search Operator
| Operator | Example | Do What | Result |
| site: | google site:www.windowsarchives .com |
forces to search keyword in specified site | Search for information on google published on windowsarchives |
| filetype: | Internet filetype:pdf | force to find documents of the specified type | find pdf document on internet |
| link: | link:www.windowsvalley.com | show pages that point to the URL | show pages that point to the URL windowsvalley |
| #..# | starwar 1977..2005 | Search within a range of numbers. | search star war movies between 1977..2005 |
| city1 city2 | delhi boston | show the flight timing for cities | show flight timing for Delhi to Boston |
| phonebook: | phonebook: Disney CA | Show all phonebook listings. | Search for Disney’s phone numbers in California – CA |
| rphonebook: | rphonebook: bill jones NY | Show residential phonebook listings | Search for the phone number of every Bill Jones in New York State – NY. |
| movie: | movie:Avatar | Find movie reviews and show times. | Search for information about this movie, including reviews, showtimes, etc |
| stocks: | stock:AAPl | show stock information and price.require ticker symbol | show stock information of Apple inc. |
| weather | weather New Delhi | Show the current weather and forecast. | show the current weather of Delhi and forecast weekly weather. |
| define: | define:archive | forces to search definition | definitions of the word archive from the Web |
| ~glossary | computer ~glossary | forces to search glossaries | glossaries about computer, as well as dictionaries, lists of terms, terminology, etc |
if you think the above information is helpful to you and boost your searching capability or if you like this post then don’t forget to comment, it will encourage me to bring other google technique in part-2, until then read other articles, I will be back soon with another part.
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