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Google Search Pro | 7 Googling Tips We GUARANTEE You Didn’t Know

31-Aug-2021
By ellephant

Ever try googling something, and never find what you want? Well, we think this user on Twitter figured it out. 

According to a viral tweet, there is actually methods to searching something up on google, that many do not know about. Here are 7 tips stated that you can use, in the spirits of actually doing it right. 


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Check them out!


#1 Open-Close Quotation Marks

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Putting quotation marks around the terms you want to search, would help you get exactly what you want. For instance, "black hill", instead of everything that contains black and hill. 


#2 Dashes

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Using a hyphen in your searches, will exclude that term from your search, and focus on what comes after. For instance, Nevertheless-Kdrama would show you the South Korean drama called 'Nevertheless', and not everything with the term nevertheless. 


#3 Tilde

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For synonyms, using tilde or ~ would help you locate all the same/similar terms you're searching on. For instance, searching piano ~classes, would result in searches which contain classes, searches, coaching so on and so forth. 


#4 Website

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If you intend to look up something only from a certain website, then typing in Spiderman site: marvel.com would result in everything to do with Spiderman from the website marvel dot com. 


#5 Vertical Bar

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Number 5 on the list is using a vertical bar ( | ). This element serves as an 'or'. For instance, searching something with ebay | amazon, would give you results on both those e-commerce sites. 


#6 Two Periods

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To search up something between a certain period of time, for instance, looking up a certain event from the years 1996..2000. Your results would bring up everything to do with said event, during those years. 


#7 Location

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An easy one, googling something by adding the location of where you'd like to narrow it down to. For instance, Mahyuddin Yassin location: Malaysia.


Give these 7 tips a try, and you'd probably be more accurate with your searches!

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