How google search engine works | google custom search | pro tips and tricks

Google search has become a basic need of our lives and why not, you have any query, you type it in Google and you get the answer. But it is not always that simple. Sometimes you get a lot of time wasted in searching something while Google continuously shows you irrelevant searches. This happens because of Google’s algorithms, say, when you write the phrase 'high protein diet', You get the search results including these individual words, not necessarily present in order. When you search inception you get almost every result relating to the movie, but what if you want to know about inception concept alone and throughout all results containing the movie, what if you want to search in the specific site only, what if you want to search product at a given range of prices. This post gets you all covered with complete details and examples to make you a pro once and for all. So let’s get things done.

Using Google Search operators

• Quotes “” 

Suppose you want to search the entire phrase in order. If you do it normally, you may get mixed results contains individual words in the phrase, not necessarily the entire phrase, so in this case, you may use the quotes operator. Simply put your sentence inside quotes and you are good to go.

for example,

“we'll always have Paris”

And you are good to go.

• Exclusion – 

When you search for something like inception, you will get always get searches containing inception movies, to get searches related to inception as a general concept you simply wish to exclude the pages containing the 'movie' tag. Well, you can do that by simply putting minus in front of the search.

for example you can search like this

Inception -movie

Well this is not limited to just one Exclusion, you can exclude multiple entries at once like

Inception -movie -Nvidia

To filter out searches like Nvidia's inception program. You can also exclude phrases like

inception -movie -"NVIDIA Inception Program"

You can exclude multiple phrases and words in one line.

• INCLUSION +

Just the case opposite to the previous one, you like to include some words in search to make it specific. Simply put +word in front of the search. For example type

Apple +fruit

And this will exclude all apple company pages from searches that are else dominant without this inclusion. You can also use multiple inclusion exclusions in a single line for a more personalized search.

• Wildcards *

You want to wrap your search in quotes to get exact in order match for search, but you forgot some part of it or want to have it flexible only in one part not in rest, say, you want to search for nick fury quote 'I still believe in heroes' but not sure if it is the avengers or heroes, just search like

“I still believe in *” Nick fury.

Or the common confused to include pages using literal 'and' or ampersand symbol '&', just use * in place of and it will display all results with the variable word in place of *. You can use range operator .. in case of numbers  example

OnePlus 3..7

Will return results like OnePlus 7, 6, 5, 3, etc.

• Synonyms ~

Well, Google by default gives you searches including searches containing synonyms of keywords you used, but not when you use quotes to restrict it to search for specific phrases but, if you want to also include synonyms for certain words, just put ~ before that word. For example 

“~sad songs of *”

Will give you results having similar words in place of sad, but not anything like happy if you had used *.

• Logical operators 'AND' & 'OR'

Well, they work pretty simple, AND used between phrases will return results with both of them and OR (or you can use |) return results with either of them. For example search.

Grapes AND bananas

Grapes OR bananas / Grapes | bananas

You can also use () to group them as

(Grapes | bananas) buy

• Site searching site:

Suppose you want to search for something, not on the entire web, but on the website of your choice. Just search normally except add site: Sitename.xyz  to your search. The example you want to search on Forbes.com, search as

India's richest site:forbes.com

You can also only use sites name without any search query to get topics from the specific site only, for example

Site:forbes.com

Will basically return pages on forbes.com

You can also use the site: operator to search on specific domains only, example

Top celebrity site:.uk

Or simply search for site:.uk

For a list of all sites ending with co.uk

• File searching filetype:

Say you just need PDF on certain topics and do not want to go to multiple sites and search files in there, which gets frustrating at times. Well, use filetype: PDF in your search to get the job done. For example type.

Special relativity filetype: PDF.

Now afterward just add these operators in your search and make it a routine to always get precise search results and save you time. if you find this blog useful consider sharing with your friend and if you have any queries related to this blog, tell me in the comment box.

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