- Search for an exact match: enter a word or phrase inside quotes (quotation marks)
- For example,
"tallest building"
- Search for a specific word and any synonyms for that word: add a tilde in front of a word
- For example, searching
iPhone ~cheap will also show results for iPhone inexpensive, and so forth
- Exclude words from your search: add a dash (minus symbol) in front of a word that you want to leave out
- For example,
jaguar speed -car
- OR operator
- Comparison
- Searching
apple microsoft will prioritize results where both words/terms are found together
- Results will likely include both “apple” and “microsoft” somewhere on the page (not necessarily next to each other, but both terms will appear in the content)
- Searching
apple OR microsoft provides you with results that contain either “apple”, “microsoft” or both
- More inclusive results: it’s not required for both to be present on a single page
- The vertical bar
| is a shorthand for the OR operator
- Range operator (two periods
..)
- For example
- Number range
- Searching
smartphones $200..$500 will surface results for smartphones priced between 200and500
- Date range
- Searching
olympics 2000..2020 will show results about the Olympics from the years 2000 to 2020
- Measurements
- Searching
cars 100..200 horsepower will return cars that fall within that horsepower range
- Search for a specific site: add
site: in front of a site or domain
- Search for similar sites: add
related: in front of a site or domain
- For example
- Searching
related:amazon.com brings up results including Walmart and Overstock
- Searching
related:google.com shows Yahoo and Bing
- Search for a specific file type of uploaded files: add
filetype: or ext: in front of file types
- For example
- Use
filetype:pdf to find a PDF
- Use
ext:doc to locate a Microsoft Office document
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