How to Google like a pro
Make your search more powerful and get the results you really want.
What are search operators?
A search operator is something you can add within your google search that filters content so that you can get precisely the results you’re looking for. They take a couple minutes to learn, but they’ll be useful for the rest of your life. I personally use them every day when I’m looking for something specific.
Google’s search operators from most useful to somewhat useful
“ ”
If you wrap a phrase or word in quotation marks, you only get results that have precisely that phrase or word within the website
“Noah Lloyd Medium”
-
Add a dash in front of a word to remove any site that contains that word from your results
What to watch -Netflix
site:
If you only want results from a specific website, you can add site: together with it’s domain to the end of your search
best online course for programming site:reddit.com
filetype:
Get results that are of a specific file. I mostly use this to find PDF’s
Sun Tzu on The Art of War filetype:pdf
define:
Put “define” in front of any word to get the definition, synonyms and part of speech of that word
define:zeal
intitle:
Gets any results that have the phrase or word you placed after in the title of the site
chrome extension intitle:spark dashboard
intext:
Works much the same as intitle, but instead of having to be in the title, the word or phrase you put in can be anywhere on the site
intext:noah lloyd
..
You can use two full stops to signify a time period by putting a year before and after
Top companies 2005..2010
Math
Google Search can do math. Put in an equation and you’ll get a calculator showing the result of your calculation
1 + 2² * 4
inurl:
You can get results based on parts of different websites’ url’s, or use it in the same way as “site:”
clothes inurl:shop
related:
Use related: and then a website to find other sites that have similar content to it
related:amazon.com
weather:
To get the weather of a specific location, or without any location and you’ll be shown the weather for where you are
weather:london
stocks:
If you put in stocks: and then a ticker, Google Finance will pop up with information on that stock
stocks:AAPL
Inposttitle
Search for a blog post that contains a word or phrase in the title
inposttitle:climate
Combining operators
In order to get more value from all the operators you can combine them in your searches
fiction -”harry potter” filetype:pdf intext:dragon
