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What are search operators?
A search operator is something you can add within your google search that filters content so that you can get precisely the results you’re looking for. They take a couple minutes to learn, but they’ll be useful for the rest of your life. I personally use them every day when I’m looking for something specific.
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“ ”
If you wrap a phrase or word in quotation marks, you only get results that have precisely that phrase or word within the website.
| "[Your name]"
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-
Add a dash in front of a word to remove any site that contains that word from your results.
| What to watch -Netflix
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site:
If you only want results from a specific website, you can add site: together with it’s domain to the end of your search.
| best place to learn guitar site:reddit.com
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filetype:
Get results that are of a specific file. This is mostly helpful with finding PDF's.
| Sun Tzu on The Art of War filetype:pdf
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related:
Will give you similar websites to the one you typed in based on their contents.
| related:amazon.com
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Others
weather: gets the weather of any location
| weather:london
define: gets the definition of any word
| define:zeal
stocks: gets the data of any stock
| stocks:AAPL
intext: gets sites that have your exact text
| intext:[your name]
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Combining operators
If you need a really specific result, you can combine the operators with spaces between.
| magic -”harry potter” filetype:pdf intext:dragon
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