Advanced searches for Google/DuckDuckGo

I will teach you how you can do advance google/duckduckgo searches.

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# Start

  1. You can search within a particular URL by including the operator site:example.com before or after your keywords. Extremely helpful to search on programming websites that do not have a search functionality.

  2. If you’re looking for an exact phrase, use quotation marks around the keywords to view results containing that exact phrase.

  3. If your search terms contain a keyword with several meanings, you can exclude one of the meanings by adding a hyphen (-) before the keyword.

  4. Google omits most non-alphanumeric characters from its queries. Symbols that programmers use all the time like !@#$%^& and * aren’t searched. Neither are (){}[]. Fortunately, DuckDuckGo recently started supporting all characters in searches. So consider using DuckDuckGo for your more sophisticated searches. They really are the most programmer-friendly search engine.

  5. To generate content similar to those found on a URL you already know, use the related: operator before adding the URL.

  6. You can retrieve pages whose titles contain the keywords you’re searching for, by using the allintitle: operator.

  7. To retrieve pages where all the keywords appear in the body of the page, use the allintext: operator before the search terms.

  8. You can enter more than one query into Google at a time to view pages with one of the specified keywords. Just use a capitalised “OR” to separate the terms.

  9. To look for news items emerging from a particular location, use the location: operator, then add the city name.

  10. An asterisk acts as a wildcard to help you find the missing word in a phrase.

  11. Using the link: operator, you can find pages that link to another url. This is probably more useful for SEOs who are searching for backlinks to a specific page.

  12. If you’re looking for a specific file on the Web, you can use the filetype: operator to specify the particular document type you’re searching for, and Google will restrict results to pages containing those document types.

  13. If you’re looking for a specific file on the Web, you can use the filetype: operator to specify the particular document type you’re searching for, and Google will restrict results to pages containing those document types.

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You can use these websites for advance searches

  1. Google advanced search
  2. Duck Duck Go advanced search

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