Many
times we keep searching data with a few keywords which we feel relevant to the
content, but it is not always true and returns clumsy horror. Web is flooded
with the information and you may get confused with the variety of irrelevant
pages and results.
Why
waste time when you can narrow down your search queries with below additional
assist. With these tags you will surely get exact synchronized results within
Google ensuring minimum search time. Make sure you always use these while doing
random search and hit your relevance at few attempts.
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Dash (-) (hyphen)
Using
dash you can exclude the keywords which are not directly relevant to your
search or things you not wish to get results for.
E.g. Oscar movies –hollywood
In
this you will get results showing all movies which are Oscar winners and Google
will exclude results with just Hollywood movies. So kind of a narrowing down
your search to get specific results. This will ensure result do not show
something like “my favorite list of hollywood movies” etc.
Tilde (~)
Using
tilde you can search the query with its synonyms.
E.g.
manchurian dishes ~chinese (this will return pages dogs and pets)
link:keyword
Using
link: you can search specific query within that website which content the specific
site link URL.
E.g. link:huffingtonpost.com michael schumacher (this will
first return results with huffingtonpost.com linked pages.
site:keyword
Using
site: you can search keyword which is present in that website
E.g. site:huffingtonpost.com michael schumacher (this will show
similar results as link option but it will show all pages within that site.
Quotation Marks
Use
quotation marks to do exact sentence search such as famous quotes.
E.g. “Great minds discuss ideas” (this will
return with the pages that have quote containing exact string)
Periods (..)
For
searching keywords within specific periods such as movies in 2010 to 2011 only,
you can narrow down your results with this tag.
E.g. hollywood movies 2010..2013
related: keyword
Using
this tag you can find search item or sites which are related to each other.
E.g. related:nokia.com (this will
return sites which are exactly in same business line as Nokia mobiles)
Share your new thoughts and new tips in comments.
