Google Search Tips & Tricks
By: Kevin Gabeci
Tags: Tricks, Internet, Tips And Tricks, Tips, Google

Elevate your search and research game by a whole lot with these tips and tricks. Make sure to follow the whole article because I guarantee that you are going to learn new things about the most powerful Search Engine in the world.

Why is it important?

Well, Google is the most used search engine in the world with 4 billion users, while the internet itself has a little over 4.3 billion. This means that virtually everyone that is on the internet has at least once used their services. More importantly, Google has a potent search engine that will help you find almost anything that you want.

It’s really important when you are doing research for your homework, or for work, and even when you want to learn something about any subject in the world. Being proficient at research is a skill that will benefit you in the long run, so why not get ahead from the rest by learning about these tips and tricks that I have complied.

Fewer Words is Better

If you have a specific question in your head and want to type it all out, sure, you can do that, but you won’t get the best results. That’s why it’s important that you learn that sometimes writing only the keywords is better. For example, your query might have 10 words in it, and to get better results to find out only 3 keywords and search for that instead.

Example: How to learn the computer language javascript?

Edited: Javascript tutorial

If only 2 keywords it doesn’t get you the best results, you have to add keywords one by one until you get what you were searching for. Just remember that it’s always better to be precise with the words than to enter as much as possible.

Tools

To get the best result and that is the most relevant to what your search query might be, try to regulate the time frame. You can do that by pressing the tools button, and then you will see two new options show up.

As you can see from the picture above, there is a dropdown that says Any time, you can change that so that it shows results from the past week, month, or whatever you need. You can even select your chosen custom time range.

On the other dropdown menu, you select the Verbatim option if you want to see the results that only have the exact spelling.

Image Search

Searching for an image can sometimes be a little difficult since there are a lot of ways people can manipulate SEO to make their images appear higher. That’s why when you press the tools button when doing an Image search, you have different options.

As you can see from the image above, you can select the size of your image, the color orientation, the type of the image, the time when it was published, and the usage rights. This last one is really important if you intend on using one of the images in any article or product that you.

Did you Know?

Even if a website is down for the moment you can see the last cached snapshot of it from just a single Google search. Here’s how you can do it. After you search for a website you will see it on the list and on the right side by the end of the domain you will find a dropdown button.

As you can clearly see from the picture on the left when you press the button you will see two options, Cached and Similar.

Cached shows you the latest snapshot of the website that was crawled by the Google bot, and Similar shows you similar searches related to that website.

Getting Definitions

Google is really helpful even for people who are learning the English language or just want to expand their knowledge. By simply adding define in front of a word you get the definitions of it.

You can also do it by adding the word meaning at the end of the word you wanna search also. It’s a really simple feature that will help you learn all kinds of new words.

If you want to learn about the origin of a specific word just add etymology before the word and press search.

And as I briefly mentioned before you can also learn English by using google. Add pronounce before the word and you will get the correct pronunciation of the word and a lot of helpful information with it as well.

Google Does Maths

Use google search to perform math calculations really fast. This can be handy when you are working online and browsing through the internet so it might be just slightly more convenient to type the math equation in the search bar than to open the calculator.

Either way, it’s a great addition to the platform and can come in handy for a large number of people.

However, you can have a number of calculators such as mortgage calculator and tip calculator all available to you from a simple search.

Conversions

With a simple Google search, you can easily convert feet to meters, miles to kilometers, and even the exchange rate between two currencies. To perform any of that action is really simple and you can achieve that by typing these simple queries:

miles to km — This will help you convert miles to km

USD to Eur — This will show you the live exchange rate of the two currencies.

Closing Thoughts

Google Search is a powerful search tool that is completely free and not taking advantage of it it’s not wise. Using the tips and tricks that I have provided for you in this article will help you find anything on the internet.

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