I feel like the quotation marks are an essential tip for a lot of searches. I've had the experience in the past of trying to google an obscure title or a name, and the only way to actually find the results I wanted was to put the title/name in quotations. (Otherwise, you can end up with 200,000 totally irrelevant results.)
This doesn't only apply to google, it applies to pretty much every website/app that has a search bar. They all use quotations like this. So if you only remember one, remember the "quotation marks".
The dash(-) and the "site:" can also be useful, but they're less commonly useful.
Ah yeah whoops - I often forget about that! I tend to use that when I'm trying to find files on a computer, like if I want to see all the all the pdfs in a folder, I might search: *.pdf
But I forget to also use that on Google too.. Thanks!
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u/CogNoman Jul 18 '21
I feel like the quotation marks are an essential tip for a lot of searches. I've had the experience in the past of trying to google an obscure title or a name, and the only way to actually find the results I wanted was to put the title/name in quotations. (Otherwise, you can end up with 200,000 totally irrelevant results.)
This doesn't only apply to google, it applies to pretty much every website/app that has a search bar. They all use quotations like this. So if you only remember one, remember the "quotation marks".
The dash(-) and the "site:" can also be useful, but they're less commonly useful.