How does Google interpret basic search?Google places “AND” operator between all search terms entered in basic search box. Automatically searches for some plural/singular and grammatical variants.
You enter: news readerGoogle searches: news AND reader OR readers
Does not search as exact phrase unless quotes present!
Need Exact Phrase? Use quotation marks!“infosys billion dollar”
Expand Search With Synonym? Use a “tilde”e.g.: “~infosys” finds IT companies similar to infosys
Search by filetype (pdf, ppt, xls, doc)e.g.: “.Net Framework” filetype:ppt
Negative Search Termse.g.: “nano –car” will return the results with word ‘nano’ but not Nano car
Limit your search results to a particular web sitee.g.: “sparsh site:infosys.com” will get the pages from infosys.com where the word ‘sparsh’ is referred `
Search for sites that link to a particular websitee.g.: “link:infosys.com”
You’ve found a useful website & want to find other sites like it:e.g.: “related:www.infosys.com”
Google is a DictionaryFind definition of a word or a phrase?e.g.: define: scruples
BTW, the credit goes to - u guessed it, some techie at Infosys ;-)
1 comment:
Ever tried the boolean search or command?
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