When searching for something specific, try using quotes to minimize the guesswork for Google search
exactly match
e.g.
Puppy Dog Sweaters
“Puppy Dog Sweaters”
Use a hyphen to exclude words
使用減號去除某些特定詞彙
e.g.
Mustang -cars
Use +
You do this with the + operator, in front of the otherwise excluded word
Use ~
Similar Results
~ (Tilde): putting the ‘’ symbol before a word tells the search engine that you are looking for words similar to the one you entered. So if you were shopping for a used ‘car’, but also might be interested in a ‘pre-owned van’ or a ‘secondhand vehicle’, a good search term to use would be ‘used ~cars’.
Use :
site:
e.g.
Sidney Crosby site:nhl.com
related:
Find sites that are similar to other sites
e.g.
related:amazon.com
filetype:
e.g.
filetype:pdf
allintitle:
to look for words in the webpage title
e.g.
allintitle: Google is faster than Bing.
Use the asterisk wildcard
e.g.
“Come * right now * me”
Search for multiple words at once
e.g.
chocolate OR white chocolate
“Best ways to prepare for a job interview” OR “How to prepare for a job interview”
Search a range of numbers
e.g.
What teams have won the Stanley Cup ..2004
41..43
How do you search for special characters?
you must escape the special character by adding a backslash before it
e.g.
To search for the string “where?”, escape the question mark as follows: “where?”
It’s very easy to search for the string “##” in the bash documentation: Just run “info bash”, hit “s”, and enter “##” as the search string.