Monday, June 26, 2017

How to Use Google More Effectively

This also works for cool other things. I remember the days when I could pirate most music simply by typing

filetype:mp3 [song name]

Found a lot of textbooks with

filetype:pdf [the ISBN of the book I wanted]

also

related:[site name]

will give you results for sites related to the site you input, whatever that means.

info:[site name]

will give you info about that website

cache:[site name]

will give you google's cached version of the site.

Just some helpful tips.


Edit: brackets irrelevant, I'm just saying that's stuff you fill in with the thing you're trying to search for.


2nd Edit: Since this seems to have been well received, here's some further obscure search tuning


Combine searches (seriously why not just do two separate searches)

put "OR" between each search query. For example,

MarchAgainstTrump OR The_Donald

Search social media

put @ in front of a word to search social media. For example:

@twitter comedians that won't make me cry

Search hashtags

Put # in front of a word. For example:

#UselessTalents

Search for wildcards or unknown words

Put a * in your word or phrase where you want to leave a placeholder. For example:

What am I doing with my *

Search for a price

Put $ in front of a number. For example:

esoteric shirts to make me look cool $10

Search within a range of numbers

Put .. between two numbers. For example:

used Xbox $200..$400

Just a few small things to improve your life...

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