Most usefull tips to use Google Search efficiently
Internet is full of different information and we get used to use Google Search to find what we interested in. But sometimes searching of relevant data takes too much time.
Time is our most valuable resource in life so it always be usefull to learn some nice tips to do searching quickly and within short period of time.
1. The tabs
The first thing we begin with is the tabs that you can find on the top of every search page. In most cases you can notice Web, News, Image, and More. With their help you can do your search more relevant. For example, if you're looking for video, then choose VIDEO tab. If you need some article, select NEWS tab and so on.
2. The quotes
Suppose, you want to find steem android app. If you tell Google browser to search these three words, you will get approximately 31 400 results containing at least one of these words in any order. But if use quotes and will search for "steem android app", google engine will show only 7 results containing this exact phrase.
3. Excluding unwanted words
If there are too many search results, you can try to exclude pages with unwanted words with help of hyphen. This may be helpful if you sear for words with dual meaning. For example, you're looking for zebra shop. In this case you can exclude results with animal such way "zebra -animal".
4. Searching inside specific site.
In case you're looking for something inside certain website, use a colon after a keyword followed by domain name. For example, you are interested in mining cryptocurrency and what people talk about it on steemit.com. So, you would better use this search syntax "mining:steemit.com".
5. Usage of asterisk wildcard
This can be helpful if you are searching for some phrase where some words are unknown. For example, with help of "mining steem with *" you will get all methods of mining steem currency.
6. Google search string as calculator
If you need to quicly solve some math expression, no need to switch on calculator - just use google search string for this. For example, cos 45 will show you 0.52532198881.
7. Usage of OR expression
If you are looking for some specific info you can do search with multiple choice with help of OR expression. For example, with "steem price" OR "steem chart" you can find all pages with "steem price" or "steem chart" phrase.
8. Looking for specific file.
If you need some specific file, you can narrow your search results by adding whitespace with filetype:file_extension. For example, to search a pdf document about steemit, you type "steemit filetype:pdf" .
9. Unit and money conversions
Yes, google can convert units and money for you. The syntax is following: first keyword+whitespace+'to'+whitespace+second keyword. For example, type steem to bitcoin and see exchange rate, or type km to miles and see how many miles are in one km.
10. Advanced search
If the above tips don't help and you still can't find what you want, use this url
https://www.google.ru/advanced_search
It allows to combine the above tips together and provide some other usefull options.