Searching with Google

This first blog post is going to be about how to search things on Google.

No I'm not kidding, I know it sounds like something doesn't worth to write a post, but I thought to write this because I've seen many of my friends type things in Google and struggling to get the results as expected. I hope this will help them to get their Google search results correctly and quickly.

• Be simple

First thing is use simple and web-friendly search queries. As example, say you want find about the benefits of drinking tea. For that you might search like  "what are the benefits of drinking tea?". But if you search like "benefits tea" instead, it gives the same sort of results. But it is easier and most of the times it gives more relevant results than typing a complex query.

• file type

If you want to find things in a specific file type, you can specify it like this.  

benefits tea filetype:pdf

Here it gives results with .pdf files

• Site

You can specify results from a specific website. Say you want to find about searching of an array in java language, and you want all the results from stackoverflow.com, you can just search as this.

java search array site:http://stackoverflow.com/

Here all the results will be from the specified site

• Ignore words

You can enter a query ignoring some key words. For example lets say you want to find about mobile phones but you don't want results about nokia phones, so you can simply search as this,

mobile phones -nokia

Here google ignores results with keyword mentioned with minus -

• Exact words

If you want results with exact words you want to find, you just have to put the words inside of quotation marks
for example:-
"add two teaspoons of sugar"
It gives results with the exact words you typed.

• Find definitions

Google has an easy way to find definitions of meanings of words. It's kind of a quick dictionary.
define:biochemistry


Most of the things I mentioned above you can find in the advanced search in google

But I think if you knew knew how to do them manually, you can type an advanced search easily and find things quickly.

Now let me tell you some some fun stuff in google search :) you can try them and comment :)

• Fun stuff  :D
• Go to google and type in zerg rush and hit enter, see what happens :)
• Go to google and type in tilt  or askew and hit enter, see what happens :)
• Go to google and type in do a barrel roll and hit enter, see what happens :)
• Go to google and type in google gravity and select the first suggestion and hit enter, see what happens :)

If you know more google tricks like these, leave a comment :)