Best Google Search Secrets and Tricks You Should Know

Knowing Google search secrets are the best thing to become a Google search expert, if you are reading this possibly you are frequent user of the most popular search engine on the planet, whenever you think to find anything on the web you head toward Google and gets the related information within clicks, Google updates their search algorithm regularly to provide most relevant search result, generally you find every kind of information which you are looking for like nearby restaurants, places to visit, problem-solving tips, tutorials and lots of other things which cannot be described, sometimes you need to do deep research on Google to find exactly what you are looking for, maybe you are unable to find that hidden information on the web which is not index properly on Google.

If you are a frequent user of Google Advanced Search you can easily relate these search tips, most of the search technique described here can be found on Advanced search on the Google, but if you want to perform a quick search to find the most relevant information, you need to go through these Google search secrets.

OR you might not know these Google Search Secrets which help you to find exactly what you are looking for, so here are the 10 best Google search secrets to becoming a Google search expert.

10 Google Search Secrets You Need to Know

1. Refine Google Search by File Type (filetype)

Most of the time we need some PDF, document or presentation files for various purposes, but generally, google shows lots of results to the different sites. To exactly find a file into specified format type in Google search box –

filetype:pdf Keyword as an example – learn php programming filetype:pdf and Google will return all results having pdf files, to find a presentation file search learn php programming filetype:ppt you can find many different file formats.

Above query will result in all the pdf file related to PHP programming.

2.  Get Result from one Website (site)

If you know you can find the info on a particular website, then you can tell Google to look for information on this site only,  just type your keyword site:sitename like computer site:itechfever.com  Google will show you all the pages having Computer word from itechfever.com.

Lets you need to find educational stuff then you can restrict Google to return results from Educational websites only as an example Learn cloud computing site:edu    OR if you are Looking for specific documents in Google Documents? Search for your keyword site:docs.google.com

Above  search will result in all the pages which contain computer from site itechfever.com

3.  Get results containing keyword in Title, URL and Search Text

You can tell Google that you are looking for such information which should be in Title or URL or in the search text then you can use these search operators which will refine Google search results for you.

allintitle:keyword – It will show you results containing the keyword in the title of the search result.

allinurl:Keyword – Show you all results containing your keyword in result URL.

allintext:keyword – Show you all results containing your keyword in search Text.

allinanchor:keyword – Shows you link to the pages you’re looking for.

Note that there should not be space between the operator and keyword, for example, site:edu programming is correct but site: edu programming is not, intitle:c programming is correct but intitle: c programming is not. You can use operator before or after keyword it has no effect on the result as site:edu dogs will work exactly same as dogs site:edu all these operators are case sensitive.

4.  Remove unwanted terms from search result using “-” Operator

Let’s  you are searching for Speed of Jaguar animal but whenever you search for Jaguar Speed Google will show you results related to Jaguar Car. Here you can restrict Google to not returns the result related to the car using “-” operator.

Ex – Search for Jaguar Speed – Car now you won’t get car related results.

5. Search FTPs with Google

You might know that Google also indexes FTPs, but did you know you can find the results from FTP also using advanced operator –

inurl:ftp -inurl:(http|https)

This search will result in all the URL containing FTP, it will disallow HTTP and https, and you might be able to see the directories of different websites including  NASA.

You can also use your keyword to find suitable FTPs as – Keyword inurl:ftp -inurl:(http|https)

6.  Find the definition instantly.

Whenever you need to find the definition of any word simply go to Google search and use the operator “Define”as an example “define:lol” and you will see the definition of the word at the top of search result.

7.  Directly download document files from Google without visiting the site

Do you want to download any doc, ppt, pdf or any other file, do an advanced Google search using filetype operator it will show you related document files, as an example Windows 10 filetype:ppt it will result in all the ppt files as-

now if you are on Mozilla Firefox select the file format as you  can see the blue highlighted [PPT] Right clickand Click “View Selection Source” from there it will show you link to that PPT file now you can save it to your computer or can do whatever you want with that link, or if you have Internet Download Manger Installed into your computer after selecting the file format Right-click on it and click “Download selected link with IDM” you will get that PPT saved into your computer on any browser without visiting that site.

8.  Find Exact Phrase you are Looking For – ” (Quotes) Operator

If you want Google to result in exact phrase you are looking for use ” (Quote) Operator, this applies to 2 or more words queries, let’s you are looking for Windows 10  and do a search, Google will show you result containing Windows 10, or windows or 10 here, searching “Window 10″ will result in all the pages containing Windows 10 as a phrase.

Another example – If you search for a song lyrics Love the way you lie Google will results into either all the phrase Love the way you lie and it will also show you results containing Love, The, Way, You, Lie, if you do a search “Love the Way you lie” Google will result into only the pages containing “Love the Way you lie” as a phrase.

9.  Narrow down results using AND & OR operator

AND – Lets you are searching for  Birds Penguin Google may return results having Birds and Penguin or only Birds or only Penguin but if you want all the results having bird & Penguin both, use AND operator as Birds AND Penguins now google will return results having both words Bird and Penguin.

OR –  The OR operator tells the Google that “I only want to see results based on what I specify, but not results that have to contain all of what I specify.” For example, If you search for mango OR tree it will show you results having either mango or tree, it may show you results having mango and tree in the same article exceptionally.

10. Solve mathematical problems

Google knows math, just type the mathematical formula in Google search box and you will get the answer.

Like (30*23)/34 will show you calculation result.

sqrt(xx+yy)+3cos(sqrt(xx+y*y))+5 from-20 to 20 will show you Graph for this problem.

you can solve such problems on Google Search directly, apart from solving problems it also does offer a calculator which you can use for solving other problems.

Let’s perform a more complex search as example –

site:edu intitle:introduction intitle:php filetype:pdf | filetype:ppt | filetype:doc

Above search will return you results from the educational website (.edu) having introduction and php in their title and file format will be pdf, ppt and doc.

These search techniques will help you to find exact information you are looking for, basically most of them can be achieved using Advanced search on Google, but every time you need to visit advanced search page and have to select appropriate options also you need to input keywords, all the above operators can be easily memorised and saves your time.

During complex search as the example above, Google may show you error page that unusual traffic is being generated from your computer and you may need to solve the captcha, basically, Google treats you as a bot who are performing these complex queries.

Few More Google Search Tricks

1. Opening www.google.com/ncr will take you to .com site (NCR- No country redirect)
2. Go to images.google.com drag and drop an image from the computer for reverse image lookup.
3. www.goo.gl is a URL shortener by Google, also give you analytics of shorten URLs.
4. books.google.com is a library of different books.
5. Find related site as related:amazon.com
6. Compare foods using Vs as Pizza Vs Burger and get all information like calories, fat etc.
7. Get the news in a specific location search in Google News as Star wars location:California.
8. Type Timer for a quick timer, Type Stopwatch and you will get a stopwatch running on Google.
9. Convert numbers into words as  12946 into words  and get words written, easily copy paste anywhere.
10. Convert Currencies as 10 Dollar in INR.

So all above are 10 best Google search secrets and 10 quick Google search tricks, which you can easily apply every time you search on Google, a little practice makes it easy to remember, do perform all above Google search secrets and tricks for a clear idea in your mind.