In this video, we will learn some of the advanced search
operators in Google, which we can quickly use to narrow down
our search. Because most of the time, we get a lot of results.
And it is impossible for us to use those. And by using these
advanced operators, you should be able to focus and you should
be able to narrow down your search. So the first advanced
operator is file type. So let's say I am only looking for PDF
files. So what I can do is in my Google search, I can type file
type, and then colon, and then PDF, without space PDF. And then
I can type for example, word, tutorials. And no, Google will
show me only this type of files. As you can see that all search
results on the left hand side they have PDF. So if you are
interested only in one type of file, you can put it here, for
example, if you are looking for PowerPoint presentations, just
type PPT, and then whatever is your search query, or whatever
is the keyword you want to type, you can do that and press Enter.
And now you will get only the PowerPoint file. So this is a
file type operator. And there are a few things you can do
straight away in this Google search. For example, if you want
to quickly calculate a percentage 76% of let's say 976.
So Google will immediately show you the answer. So simple
calculation, you don't have to even open your calculator app,
you can quickly type in Google and you can get the results. And
as you can see, this is a scientific calculator, you can
calculate some trigonometric functions here, you can
calculate log sign cost and exponential and power as well.
You can also solve triangles in Google. So if I type solve, and
then triangle, and let's say I put the wrong spelling of this,
and press enter, no, Google will spellcheck my phrase, it will
correct the spelling, it will show me that it is showing that
result for salt triangle, although the spelling I put were
wrong. And now you can solve the triangle. And here you can find
many things. For example, you can solve for area, if you know
the base and the height. As you can see here, if I put base, for
example, 40 and I put height 10, my area will be 200. You can
also solve this triangle. For other parameters, such as
height, base, any side if you know the angle are for
perimeter, etc. For each one of them, you will need a different
value to enter. Let's say I want to solve it for a side aid, I
want to find the length of this site a but know what I have to
put here, the area of the triangle I should know and the
other side and the angle between these two sides. So if I know
the area, if I know the adjacent side, and if I know the angle
between these two, I can just put it here and I can get the
value. So you can also solve
parallelogram.
Here you can find the area by putting just the base and the
height of these of this parallelogram. So these type of
simple calculations and simple geometrical calculation you can
do on Google straight away. Another powerful way to search
in Google is to find something near your location. So near me
is a very powerful phrase, you can find something food near me
or gas near me. So these kinds of things. So let's say I type
food near me. Google will show me all the restaurants near my
location. And if I click on any of these restaurants, and here
we can see the rating of this restaurant. And if we go further
down, we can even read the reviews of the customers. So
this is another feature in Google. Another powerful feature
is searching by exact phrase. So let's say we search for free
online courses. Now here we get 4.4 billion results. So these
are not of course any use to us. So what we can do is we can just
put quotation marks before and after this phrase. And now if we
search, our search results are drastically reduced. And now if
we want to reduce this further, we can put some advanced
operator here for example, in title it means that Google will
now show us only those pages in which we have This is a title
part of the title. So if I entered now, now we only have
78,200 reserves. So in title is a powerful way to reduce the
search, because know if something is in the title of the
page, so it means that page will be more relevant to us. Now we
can also use another operator, and and is an operator by
default, and is always present here, but because I want to use
two operators in title and any URL and then colon, and then we
have to put the same again No, here I'm using entitle which is
advanced operator in URL in URL mean that this exact phrase
should be in the URL of the webpage or the web address of
the webpage and in the title as well. So now if I search No, I
can reduce my results further to 10,300 only. So this is how you
can use these advanced operators. There are a few more
things I would like to mention. For example, I want to search a
video on YouTube about a PowerPoint tutorial, which is
more than 20 minutes long, and which is a maybe recent video
within one month or so. So what I can do is I can type my phrase
first PowerPoint
tutorial.
And know I can click on these videos. And once in the videos,
no, I have these tools icon and if I click on Tools, I will get
these filters are available. And here I can select my criteria,
let's say my duration is should be longer than 20 minutes. My
timeframe is then within past year, or I can select past month
as well, let's say past month, and then I can also select the
quality of the video should be high. And now my search has
reduced to only these videos. And now let's say I want to see
only videos on the YouTube, then I can use another operator,
which is site colon youtube.com. Now it will only show me the
videos which are available on the YouTube. As you can see, you
know all these videos are on the YouTube. So this is another
powerful feature, you can select videos and you can apply
filters. By default we are in this all section. But here we
can go into video section. Now at the end, let's search for
images. So I am searching for space images. And then I want to
search from NASA website nasa.gov. And no I get these
space images. If I click on images, no I can apply these
tools. If I click on Tools, no I have these filters available the
size of the image what size I want the color, the dominant
color of the image. Similarly, the usage rights also the type
of the image. So all these filters are available, and in
particular, very important is the time you can select any
images within past month. For example, let's see if we have
any past month. So these are images which are issued by NASA
just one day ago. You can see here. So this is how you can use
some advanced Google search operators to narrow down your
search and to focus on a specific topic. So I hope you
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