Eight Googling tips you probably don’t know

“Quotation markets”

Put quotes around search terms to let you search exactly for that word.

All results will have your terms in it.

Example: “James Clear”

Gives you all James Clear search results without just “James” or just “Clear”.

— Chris Hladczuk (@chrishlad) August 28, 2021

– Dashes

If you want to exclude a term from your search, include a hyphen before that word.

Example: dolphins-football

You just want dolphins the animal not dolphins the professional football team.

— Chris Hladczuk (@chrishlad) August 28, 2021

~ Tilde

Use tilde when you want synonyms to appear in the result.

Example: music ~classes

Here you only get music classes, lessons, coaching, etc.

— Chris Hladczuk (@chrishlad) August 28, 2021

Site:

Use this to search within a specific website only.

Example: Kevin Ryan site:chrishlad..com

This searches for Kevin Ryan mentions on my website (chrishlad dot com).

— Chris Hladczuk (@chrishlad) August 28, 2021

| Vertical bar

Same purpose as OR.

Example: Netflix | Hulu

Netflix OR Hulu

— Chris Hladczuk (@chrishlad) August 28, 2021

.. Two Periods

Use two periods to search within 2 number ranges.

Example: movies 1980..2000

— Chris Hladczuk (@chrishlad) August 28, 2021

Location:

Find news related to a particular location.

Example: Elon Musk location:sanfrancisco

— Chris Hladczuk (@chrishlad) August 28, 2021

Filetype:

Filter by a certain file type related to your search.

Example: warren buffet filetype:pdf

This filters out all the click bait news Buffet news article you don’t want to read.

— Chris Hladczuk (@chrishlad) August 28, 2021