Google Search Tips and Tricks

Search is at the heart of everything Google does, Google has added a lot new features to make your search quieries much more efficient. Searching on Google can be a magical experience once you know how to use those features, the postings in this topic are all about thos tips and tricks that make your search much more efficient.

Finding exact phrases matches

To find the exact phrase matches, you have to use quotes the words you want to search like "regular expression".

Search exactly as is (+)

By attaching a + immediately before a word (remember, don't add a space after the +), you are telling Google to match that word precisely as you typed it. Putting double quotes around a single word will do the same thing.

Search within a specific website (site:)

Google allows you to specify that your search results must come from a given website. For example, the query [ iraq site:nytimes.com ] will return pages about Iraq but only from nytimes.com. The simpler queries [ iraq nytimes.com ] or [ iraq New York Times ] will usually be just as good, though they might return results from other sites that mention the New York Times. You can also specify a whole class of sites, for example [ iraq site:.gov ] will return results only from a .gov domain.