We are in digital world and information is overloaded. Some times it’s very hard to find information that we are looking. As you know Google and other search engines are machine and they understand AI and command. Writing correct command or syntax in search box, its helps search engine to give more accurate or relevant result that we are looking. Today I am going to share some syntax that you can use for your searching in Google.
Here are some nifty modifiers which is more used by searcher and can type in your Google search box to refine your searches and get the best results.
define: to Find Meaning
What is does: defines a word or phrase
How to use / type in Google search box: define:marketing
Result of this syntax : Links to definitions of the word “marketing”
site: Site index or site specific
What is does: find out the the index pages or searches only form particular website / domain
How to use / type in Google search box: site:www.digitalmarketingmart.com or big data site:edu
Result of this syntax: Result of all google index pages of www.digitalmarktingmart.com or references to big data on .edu websites
“ ”: Exact Phrase
What is does: Searches for an exact phrase
How to use / type in Google search box: You need to put keyword or phrase that you want to search in between this code “ “.
Example : “Online Marketing Service”
Result of this syntax: Results that include the exact phrase “Online Marketing Service”
– Excluded words
What is does: Excludes search results with a particular word or phrase
How to use / type in Google search box: big data –visualization
Result of this syntax: It will give you result about big data that are not related to visualization
OR: Multiple worlds
What is does: Searches for webpages that include either word
How to use / type in Google search box: covid19 India or US
Result of this syntax: The result of above search will be the word covid19 and either India or US
… Numerical Ranges
What is does: Searches for a range of numbers
How to use / type in Google search box: Narendra Modi 1970 … 2020
Result of this syntax: any idea what will be the our of this ? In this search query things that is done between 1970 to 2020 by Narendra Modi
CM in foot – Conversions
What is does: convert units of measure
How to use / type in Google search box: cm in foot, 30C in F, $ in rupees, 24Km in Meter, mph in speed of light etc
Result of this syntax: the converted answer
1+1 Math Answers
What is does: Calculation or basic math’s function
How to use / type in Google search box: 34+50, 45% of 450, 29^2, sqrt(16) etc.
Result of this syntax: mathematical answers
Finding the right world or technique in any search engines are very very important to find the right result. Now a day AI is plating more important role in this and making things easy for us. This will helps us to frame our search in better way and try to find the right result from database.
Better Searches –> Better result = Happy Searching 🙂