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Searching on Google seems to be a simple task. Go to the website and enter what you want to find. However, if the results aren’t giving you exactly what you want, there are tricks to filter the results down to exactly what you’re looking for. Today, we finish the two-part series on tricks that can improve your searches.
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Yesterday, we covered five ways that you can supercharge your Google searches to ensure you find exactly what you’re looking for. Today, we continue this series with five additional tips to add to your search repertoire.
For Personal Tech Media, this is Two Minute Tech. I’m Jim Herman.
Since this is part two of our series, we’ll begin today with number six. You can search for a number within a range of numbers by putting two periods between them. So for example, you can search for articles about the Notre Dame Cathedral in the five years before its fire by typing 2013..2018. You can also leave off the first or the last numbers to find anything lower than or greater than the other number.
Seventh, if you know a word is in the title of an article, you can use “intitle” (all one word), colon, followed by the word. You can also use “inurl” or “intext” to find words only in the address or the text of the page.
Eighth, if you want to find sites related to a specific website, just type “related,” colon, followed by the website’s address.
Ninth, if you are on a device with location services enabled, you can add the word “nearby” to find search results that are close to you.
And tenth, if you’re searching for a phrase or lyrics but you can’t remember part of them, you can use an asterisk to indicate that elements are missing in your search term. Google will return results with any number of words in between the two phrases you listed.