Google Search is among the most widely used tools in the world. It’s used so often that the act of using Google Search has become its own verb. You can “Google” practically anything and the website is a popular provider. Here are some tips to search smarter so you can find what you’re really looking for.

Search Exact Phrases

If you’re looking for an exact phrase, use quotation marks around the keywords to view results containing that exact phrase. For example, “how to dual boot ubuntu and windows 10

Google Search - Specific Phrase

Exclude a word

If your search terms contain a keyword with several meanings, you can exclude one of the meanings by adding a hyphen (-) before the keyword. For example, “avengers -movie”

Google Search - Ignore Word

Search a specific domain

You can search within a particular URL by including the term site:example.com before or after your keywords

Google - Search Specific Site

Generate similar content

To generate content like what’s found on a URL you already know, use the related: operator before adding the URL.

Search for words in body copy

To retrieve pages where all the keywords appear in the body of the page, type allintext: before the search term.

 

Perform calculations on Google Search

You can simply type in the equation and get the result instantly. You can use either the letter “x” or “*” as the multiply symbol on your PC, while “/” is the division symbol.

Google Search - Calculator

Convert between units

Whether it’s meters to centimeters, feet to yards or any other Google has you covered. Just type convert followed by the numbers and units you want to use, and hit Enter.

Google Search - Convert

Find pages that link to specific URLs

Type link: before a URL name, and you’ll be shown all the pages on Google that link to it. This is particularly useful for SEOs who are searching for back-links to a specific page.

Search by file type

If you’re looking for a specific file on the Web, you can use the filetype: operator to specify the document type you’re searching for, and Google will restrict results to pages containing those document types.

Google Search - Filetype

Find your public IP address

Need your IP address? type my ip/ my ip address. Simple.

Google Search - IP Address

You don’t need a dictionary, just ask Google

Type define followed by the word you want to know the meaning of.

Google Search - Define

You can view flight schedules on Google

To find out flight schedules, simply use the keyword flight origin to destination. For example, flight bangalore to delhi.

Google Search - Cheap Flights

Translate from one language to another

You can either visit Google Translate to get your translation done or just use the translate keyword in Google to translate the text to another language.

Use Google as a countdown timer

This is handy. Just search timer for x minutes and Google will automatically start the countdown for you.

Google Search - Use Timer

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