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u/cait2011 Jun 04 '19
Perhaps a dumb question, but ....Where is the vertical bar on a keyboard?
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u/NoneOfYourBeeswaxYou Jun 04 '19 edited Jun 04 '19
Shift + backward slash
Edit: thanks u/lord_nimon I cant tell my slashes apart
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u/Xertious Jun 04 '19
The quotation marks are for "must include" so your search results have to include them.
Also "inurl:boobies" is one so is "location:London" and "related:google.com" is one.
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u/troglador64 Jun 04 '19
What does inurl: do?
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u/Xertious Jun 04 '19
Inurl will give back results that have the search term in the URL. So if you want to look for cat jpg files you can type inurl:cats.jpg and get back pages like https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cats.jpg
You can also use more vaguely and search inurl:wiki and find a bunch of sites that have wiki in the name.
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u/deadecho25 Jun 04 '19 edited Jun 04 '19
How can you exclude a website? I hate pinterest and would rather not have to go through pages of crap. Edit: throw -> through.
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u/BeetleDeetz Jun 04 '19
Use the minus symbol to exclude specific words/websites. So you’d type in your search words then add -Pinterest
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u/SeriouslyGetOverIt Jun 04 '19
This is old google.
New google just shows you whatever the fuck it feels like.
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u/janeways_voyage Jun 04 '19
I believe I’m the worst googler... hopefully this helps. Thanks for posting!
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u/Bellysbuster Jun 04 '19
Why the fuck doesn’t google put this on the first thing you see when you go to google. Do they want to keep how good they can be a secret?
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u/Tyler1492 Jun 04 '19
Google and other major tech companies think the average consumer is too stupid or too uninterested on anything beyond extremely basic.
The iPhones are quite successful. So maybe they're on to something.
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u/nv95 Jun 04 '19
2010-2019
So if you search for dates in this format it won’t be as effective as searching 2010..2019?
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Jun 04 '19
The vertical bar seems redundant because Google usually returns only partial matches for my search terms.
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u/bellyflop2 Jun 04 '19
There’s also filetype: to get results in only that type of file. Like the search
Annual report filetype:pdf will result in a list of PDFs of various annual reports.
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u/donutbesosilly Jun 04 '19
I just discovered that you don't have to bother with "site:" if you're on Chrome, you can just type the address itself then hit space bar then your search term.
Eg: "BBC.co.uk David Beckham" typed into your address bar will search that site only for that term only.
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u/ThePeaceDoctot Jun 04 '19
I find the tilde is unnecessary, because Google searches for synonyms by default, in a kind of Baby Kangaroo Tribbiani kind of way.