Become a Google search expert

For those of us who are always on the search for information in Internet. We will most likely use Google to perform our searches, but sometimes we don't know how to do it. Well, there are a number of functions or instructions that can help us a lot, if not too much.

This way, the functions don't allow for more complex, advanced searches. Undoubtedly, we can be more specific in our searches and save time.

Now, many people are familiar with it, while others aren't. Some instructions and functions contain words, others symbols, and many of them are used by professionals working in the web world. For this reason, in the following lines, you'll read some of the most popular ones.

How to Include or Exclude Words in Google

When you search the web, you often do so in a non-specific or very general way. But with a simple trick, we can ask Google to discard results that contain the following keywords: words to exclude through a script.

For example, DC superheroes - SupermanThis way, we'd get information related to the DC Comics paladins, eliminating the Man of Steel's appearance. If you want to add another one, you can do so as follows. superheroes of -superman-batman, in this case there would be two excluded.

Now, if we want to include more options in the results, we just need to add the addition symbol (+). So the search would be DC Superheroes + Doom Patrol. With it, we would get information about the DC Comics paladins and also the characters from the Doom Patrol series.

Exact matches

This is an easier option to implement; all you have to do is enclose the words you want to search for in quotation marks. An example of this would be “dc comics superheroes”. This way, the results offered by the search engine should be those of that publisher, not Marvel.

Google helps you if you are missing a word

With this option, all you have to do is add an asterisk (*) in place of the word you forgot. This helps a lot in a sentence or a proverb; this way, Google will try to complete the sentence.

Specific locations

If you arrive in a city and are looking for a business, museum, or specific location, you can use the location command to get precise information. For exampleYou're looking for a hardware store in Bogotá. What you should do is write hardware store located in Bogotá.

Searches by range of numbers

For this type of research, you need to define the range you want to know. This is very useful when searching for price ranges. Therefore, you just need to add two points in a row (..) between the two values.  Here is an example, vehicles $4000..$8000.

Increase results

It may be that in a web search, you need the results to be between two options. In other words, you need information on two similar topics, then you just need to add the symbol | or also the word OR. For example, Android programming | iOS programming, the other option would be Android programming OR iOS programming.

With similar themes

On the other hand, we have a super useful instruction, known as AROUND(X), with it you can get two pages with similar topics. In this case, the X represents the maximum number of words that can be separated from each other. An example android AROUND(45)programming, with you will get results where android and programming have a separation of 45 words.

Synonyms directly on Google

If you don't want to go to a website to search for a synonym, you can do so with a simple instruction. You just need to include the symbol prime, the one with the consonant ñ, before the word. Thus, it would be ~programming.

All the words in a text

This is similar to exact matches, on web pages, but with a function. With allintext followed by the words, Google will bring us only the results that include the expression added to the search. Thus, we would have allintext: android programmers.

All words in the content

Another function is intext, which allows you to get all the results and can also appear in the title or in the URL. In this way, the expression would be intext: android programmers.

Expression in the title and in the URL

With these functions you can perform certain searches, in the case of intitle, allows us to find different words in the title of web pages. For example, intitle:xbox video games.

On the other hand, we have inurl, with them you can access searches limited to the website address only. Particularly, the expression would be inurl:sega video games.

All words in the URL and title.

To get all the words in a document or web page title. In this case, the function allintitle It helps a lot, it would be placed as follows, allintitle:digital photography.

In addition, we have the function allinurl, with it we can search for several words in the electronic address (URL) of the web pages. As an example we have allinurl:oil paintings.

Searches in specific formats

There is also a way to get information on the web of certain extensions or formats, such as Word, PowerPoint, Excel and many others. For this we use the function filetype, remaining filetype:doc “digital photography” or with the other extension filetype:docx “digital photography”.

Investments

Even for a trader, there are functions that can help you visualize the stock values of a particular company. This function is stock:, an example of it is stock:cocacola

Now, here are a few features you may be familiar with that can help you greatly when searching for information on the web. Let us know: Did you know any of the features we mentioned in the post?

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