So first things first: make sure you’re using your advanced search features whenever
necessary.
Here’s what that looks like.
Once you’ve made a Google Search, head on over to your settings and select ‘advanced
search’.
Here, you’ll be able to hone in on exactly what it is you are searching for by setting
more search parameters.
And QUICK TIP!
I always use advanced search if I’m filtering by usage rights.
This is so handy if you’re working on a presentation or something public and you want
to ensure you can use the results, like any images, with no copyright issues.
But this was just a little bonus Google search tip for ya.
And now that I’ve gotten your beaks wet, here are the best Google search tips 2022.
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So let’s get on with our Google search tips, shall we?
Something that is super helpful when you’re searching Google is to search for specific
words or phrases in the title.
And for this, we can use the intitle and allintitle search parameters.
So let’s say we want to search for the best hockey team in the world,
Go Habs Go
but we want to search this term in the title.
We can just add in title with a colon, and no spaces.
Now our results have the term habs in the title.
But we can take this one step further.
Say we want to search for habs caufield.
Now we can just add all before title.
And now we’ve got results that feature both habs and caufield in the title.
So now let’s say we want to search for something that only has that result in the url itself.
Well, wouldn’t you know, we can do that too.
So we’re going to use the same trick here, but we’re going to type in url colon then
our search term.
Again, there are no spaces.
Now our results will be only URLs with habs in them.
And again we can do this for multiple words or phrases, but we need to type in all before
in url.
And now we’ve got only urls with these words in our search results.
Next up, you can search for specific file types in Google too.
Yes, really.
So this works by accessing any publicly available files that are floating around on the web.
Just type in the name or title or keywords from a report you need then hit space and
type in filetype: and then if you put pdf, you’ll get pdf search results with that
specific keyword you entered as part of the title.
(nhl filetype:pdf) So look at all our results here for NHL pdfs.
The same can be done for other file extensions like, I dunno, maybe you want an excel spreadsheet.
So just change the file type to xls.
And now our results are only excel spreadsheets.
Alright did you know you can search for related sites and content in Google search?
Well, you can and it’s super helpful for researching the competition.
All we need to do is type in related colon then add in the site or term we want to get
like results for.
So if I want to get a gauge for youtube’s competition here we will only get results
for related sites.
Similarly, we can also search synonyms.
This is great for getting those results you might miss out on by not having the right
word or phrase.
So let’s say we want to search for affordable keyboards.
We’re just going to add a tilde symbol infront of the word affordable.
Now our search results include results with synonyms to affordable.
So we’ve got cheap, budget, and so on.
And speaking of being cheap: another really handy google search tip is to search between
numbers.
So if you’re looking for a laptop within a specific price range, Google can help you
with that.
So let’s search for laptops between $500 and then we’ll add three dots and say $1500.
Now our search results will only be laptops in that price range.
Pretty handy if you’re on a budget and want to immediately exclude more expensive options.
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And now back to our google search hacks.
You can really quickly search for definitions in Google too.
So all we need to do is type in define colon then the word we want to define.
Once again, there are no spaces here.
And just like that Google will give us the definition.
If you do a lot of copy and pasting with images, you’re going to want to quickly be able
to find images with transparent backgrounds.
Well, guess what?
You can have Google serve you just that.
So we’re going to head to google image search.
Now we’ll go to tools then color then select transparent.
Now only those images with a transparent background will appear.
Now let’s talk about one of my favorite Google search features ever.
I’ve mentioned this one before but it’s just too good not to repeat.
You can search Google with a picture.
If you’ve ever found yourself admiring a jacket or tech gear someone has, but you don’t
know where to find it, you can either snap a photo of the item, or you can paste a url
into google search for Google to help you out.
So, we’re going to head to our Google images search for this one.
From here, click on the camera icon in the search bar and upload the photo, or paste
the URL.
So, I’ll upload because I’ve already snapped a picture of a jacket I like.
So, now, Google will pull up either the exact image or something closely matching that image.
How neat is that?
And by the way, you can add keywords to the search if you need to help google along a
little bit.
And last but certainly not least on my list of best google search tips is to use the asterisk
symbol to help fill in the blank.
This is one of the coolest Google search hacks for when you can’t quite remember those
song lyrics.
Using an asterisk in a Google search will signal Google to leave that as a placeholder
that you need the search engine to fill.
So, using song lyrics as an example, I’ll use a quotes trick too,
Which I’ve featured in my other Google search video…
and what’s that Taylor Swift song (“take me to the * where”) I don’t remember so
now I’ll just hit enter and would ya look at that top search result - lyrics for Taylor
Swift’s The Lakes.
This trick literally works as a fill-in-the-blank for anything you can’t remember.
And, if you want to learn even more Google search tips like using quotation marks and
searching using custom date ranges, you’re in luck.
I’ve got another Google search tip video listed in the description below.
So those are the best Google search tips 2022.
What are your favorite Google search tips?
Let everyone know in the comments below.
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