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Chris Hladczuk

28 Aug, 13 tweets, 2 min read

If you use it right, Google is the most powerful tool in the world.

But the truth is most people suck at it.

Here are 8 Googling tips that you probably don't know👇

"Quotation markets"

Put quotes around search terms to let you search exactly for that word.

All results will have your terms in it.

Example: "James Clear"

Gives you all James Clear search results without just "James" or just "Clear".

- Dashes

If you want to exclude a term from your search, include a hyphen before that word.

Example: dolphins-football

You just want dolphins the animal not dolphins the professional football team.

~ Tilde

Use tilde when you want synonyms to appear in the result.

Example: music ~classes

Here you only get music classes, lessons, coaching, etc.

Site:

Use this to search within a specific website only.

Example: Kevin Ryan site:chrishlad..com

This searches for Kevin Ryan mentions on my website (chrishlad dot com).

| Vertical bar

Same purpose as OR.

Example: Netflix | Hulu

Netflix OR Hulu

.. Two Periods

Use two periods to search within 2 number ranges.

Example: movies 1980..2000

Location:

Find news related to a particular location.

Example: Elon Musk location:sanfrancisco

Filetype:

Filter by a certain file type related to your search.

Example: warren buffet filetype:pdf

This filters out all the click bait news Buffet news article you don't want to read.

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