Use these Google Search tricks to get more relevant results in less time.
This trick is particularly useful after you realize Google isn’t showing what you want.
Or, chooseVideos,News,Shopping,Maps, etc.
Google is sometimes smart enough to do this automatically, but it depends on your search terms.
Include Only the Important Keywords
Try not to be too wordy with your searches.
Give Google simple keywords that are most relevant to what you’re after.
This will help prioritize high-quality results.
It’s particularly useful when I’m on a website that doesn’t have a search option.
Google will pull out relevant results and summarize them at the top of the page.
Just press the camera icon to upload a picture.
My example shows that it does an excellent job locating this shoe on Macy’s website.
The alternative would have been to typenavy shoesand hope that I could find them among millions of results.
Writingbeforeorafterwhen searching will constrain all the results to only the articles that were published before/after the specified dates.
Just bang out the flight number into Google.
If it doesn’t work, try adding the wordtrackorflight.
It shows both airports and indicates whether the flight is on time and other useful details.
Selecting an event or theSearch more eventslink provides other filters, directions, and information.
Get the Local Time Anywhere
Similar to a weather search is a time search.
You’ll love this little trick if you frequently manage calls with people worldwide.
Writetimenext to any location or time zone to get its current local time.
On the other hand,“quotes about friendship” “George MacDonald” site:wikipedia.orgshowszeroresults.
To restrict your photo searches to images of a specific size, writeimagesizeand define the pixel dimensions.
In other words, it’s an instruction to fill in the blank.
jot down what you know, add the asterisk, and then write the rest.
Wrap it all in quotes to have Google fill in the missing pieces.
For example, entering what you see below locates other search engines like DuckDuckGo, such as Startpage.
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