in this video we're going to share our
top 10 Google search techniques that
will help you Google like a pro and find
exactly what you're looking for in the
minimum amount of time tip 1 how to
search for an exact phrase or quote if
you want to identify the source of a
quote or phrase or exclude any website
that doesn't include the exact phrase
you are looking for then simply place
the search terms in quotation marks if I
copy and paste a line from Plato's
Republic without quotation marks you'll
notice that Google actually recommends a
different wording and provides over 4
million search results if I add the
quotation marks we suddenly narrow that
down to just 7 results and can now
identify the correct translation this is
perfect for referencing tip 2 how to
exclude a word from search results if
you want to prevent a certain word from
appearing in search results simply place
a dash or minus symbol directly before
the word you wish to amend for example
we want to search for bass whilst
preventing all bass fishing related
searches from appearing we can type bass
competition followed by - fish - fishing
and - speaker to remove all those
millions of unwanted search results that
have nothing to do with playing bass
guitar similarly if you are interested
in a news item you can remove certain
news sources entirely using this
technique tip 3 how to search for a
phrase or quote with missing words
simply use an Asterix as a placeholder
for all missing words just yesterday
always recommended a book on philosophy
called something like a little
something-something philosophy but when
I entered it in Google it doesn't find
the correct book simply type a little
asterisk asterisk philosophy and Google
returns the correct results based on the
placeholders tip for how to perform a
reverse image search go to images
google.com and then click either the
camera icon to upload an image from your
computer or you can find an image hosted
online right-click on it and choose copy
image URL and paste it into the search
field
the first page of results will display
images that are similar or related to
your original and to find matching
images click search by image to display
exact matches this is a great way to
find the origin of a specific image as
mousing over each thumbnail displays the
URL of the page on which it appears tip
5 search within a single website one of
Google's most useful features especially
for researchers is its ability to search
within a single website to search within
a single site simply enter your search
term followed by site colon URL for
example thomas paine site colon
archive.org this returns only those
pages on archive.org relevant to the
search query we can find his complete
works as a PDF
tip 6 how to search for similar websites
if you found a website that you really
like you can type related colon URL and
Google will do its best to find websites
that are related to the one entered once
this doesn't guarantee equally excellent
content it does save time finding
similar sites tip 7 search for a cached
version of a website have you ever gone
back to reread something posted on a web
site only to find that it's been removed
or changed type cache colon followed by
the URL to find the last cached version
of the site which may contain material
that has been deleted or updated since
the frequency with which the website is
updated and its popularity will
determine how often Google caches the
website but often the cached version can
be weeks or even months older than the
current version tip a search for a
specific file type Google allows you to
search for a particular file type by
typing file type colon followed by the
file type extension for example PDF PPT
docx or XLS this is an incredibly useful
tool if you want material published in
any of these formats by searching for a
PDF over a regular website you're likely
to be able to find academic essays
report
entire books and much else of interest
likewise searching for a PPT file will
yield hundreds of PowerPoint
presentations that often contain the
information in a distilled form from
sources such as universities tip 9 how
to only display results that include the
search term in the page title to perform
a search that only returns the pages
with your search term as their title
just type in title colon then your
search term tip 10 search google without
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