Google Search Tips and Tricks

Posted by admin on July 8th, 2008

Google was co-founded by Sergey Brin & Larry Page in September 1998

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What makes Google Special?

Google.com Page loads instantly with a clear and simple interface.
They only sell Sponsored Results and don’t sell search results placement.
Google is now indexing (estimated) over 20 billion web pages.
Google offers Diversity of Search Options: like Image, News, Book, Blog, Scholar, Finance, Froogle, Video search etc.
Google offers tools such as Google Maps, Blogger, Picasa, Gmail, Calendar, Google Docs & Spreadsheet, Google Alerts, Google App Engine, Google Sets etc.

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Google Search Capabilities Video (Summary of the Video)

1. For “Exact Phrase Search” use your search phrase within quotes

Example : “seo freelancer”

2. Search by filetype (ppt, pdf, xls, doc) etc

Example : seo filetype:ppt

3. Search using Negative Search words

Example : nano –car will return the results with word ‘nano’ but not related Tata Nano car.

4. Results specific to a Site Search

Example : seo site:seofreelancing.com

5. Search for sites that contain your site link.

Example : link:seofreelancing.com

6. Search for websites similar to yours

Example : related:www.seo.com

7. Search for a Definition of a word/phrase.

Example : define: webmaster

8. Perform a Localized Google Search using the url local.google.co.in

9. Perform a theater search running your movies in your area by visiting google.co.in/movies (for India)

10. Search for public source code using the url google.com/codesearch

11. Some of the other Search Operators include

12. Some important Google Search URL’s are;

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2 Responses to “Google Search Tips and Tricks”

nero Says: July 9th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
dude just use googlehack which lets u search anything
nuklear Says: July 9th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Could you please tell me the Google Hack Web URL. I googled around and was not sure how to go about.