Super GOOGLE: Top 12 Advanced Search Techniques

"absotusely" :p

I remember using boolean operators and parens in the early days of Google, but heard (or experienced) things that indicated they had been deprecated. I think maybe it was because I wasn't enclosing the terms in quotes.

Good stuff Dave !! If you got more, let's have it ! regards, Dan

Just found your channel and it's ridiculous the amount of topics and content you cover really appreciate it 👍🏻

I'd rather use google from the 90's.

I knew most of these, the parenthesis was a great one for me. I also didn't know that the TAB (after typing a domain) searched just that domain! (another great one). InURL totally knew to me! (THANKS). Great Video Dave!

Dave, would you consider doing a series on prompting? Learning to talk to chat GPT, Dall-e, midJourney, is a super hot topic and also soon to be the new Google Search in many ways. I think with your knowhow, it'd be incredibly successful. Twenty years ago I didn't have this video to learn Google Search properly. This around, with AI, I'm counting on you! Cheers from Vancouver :)

I saw what you did there. Suggesting that people don't know their grammar, then miss spells search :) That is a good job.

Need a google cheat sheet.

Excellent video.

while I think this vid is brilliant wisdom, I tried this site search on craigslist. no matter what i search for, zero results. workaround?

They say if you use anything Google he owns your life.

Good refresher. Thanks. Subbed.

I love this. Thank you for this video. I can now use Google search more effectively.

There are also a type of command shortcut operators, I don't know Google's but I know it has, duckduckgo's also has I only use the "!github" and "!arch" for the arch wiki daily query

Amazing stuff. Took some notes.

I'm buying your book!

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I’ve got a weird search technique I discovered/invented. Not sure if it is useful anymore and not sure the power s-at bee well let me post it here. Excuse my attempts to not be shadow rubber band. During the recent beer from Mexico afflicti on, as a healthcare provider I remembered finding a data set on the see dee see’s website but it was clearly being obfuscated on searches. I found that even though a quoted search containing a phrase in the article returned a handful of useless results, if I copied and pasted that quoted phrase about a hundred times into google, it gave me the correct results with hundreds of previously missing results.
I believe there was for the time being, some kind of manual weighting multiplier being applied to that phrase or others like it, and by multiplying the quoted phrase in the search by a ridiculous amount, it was able to overcome what I believe was a decimal weight multiplier and added up to a now allowable/unfiltered result. Something to keep in ur back pocket for when the next sensitive political situation comes around and you want to double check ur search engine.
Thanks for uploading =]

I'm not convinced that the parens and OR/AND are still working. If you look at the results they tend to always have both things. Sadly I think google is muuucchhh harder to control than it used to. Now a days you always get what google wants, not really what you want

With Google, I need a parameter "-bias" to get real results

+24 :D I saw thingsfor 24$, and 240V :D :D :D Never easy.

For years I've known of all these things and, other than the quoted search, never in my life have I had a case where I actually needed them. I feel like these are not so much advanced searching techniques, as ways to impress your friend, like "hey, I'm an IT guy, look what I can do".

dont u mean use another search engine altogether? lolz

I might be wrong, but I recall most of this was taught to us in school as when I was going through school the internet just happened. So it was part of our curriculum to understand how to use search engines...

Yeh, slightly old, slightly inaccurate, not one of Dave's best.

Absetoozely good stuff, thanks Dave! The first thing that I thought this would be most helpful with is Thingiverse - their native search still hasn't improved somehow in the last ten years. Having the google index and search their site for me is much handier. Picked up a copy of your book last week, 3/4 finished reading it - a lot of useful knowledge in there. Very much parallels my own journey in many ways, as one who came to the same understanding of their condition much later in life. It's actually helping me a bunch, and I'll be sending a copy to family and close friends to help them to understand me better as well. I'll be a dad in about 6 weeks, so the tips on parenting were especially welcome and helpful. Love ya buddy, thanks for all you do (except windows product key activation :P) lol.

Absitively and possilutely

Is there a way to search a term plus a number (increments of 1)?

So if I wanted to search

Web build 1
Web build 2
Web build 3

Is there a command such as “web build” + “#” or something that exists?


Thanks

Thank you for this. I had to study it as part of being an SEO specialists

I want to search about something but its older and google do not want to show me exactly what i want to search for. Theres plenty tutorials about a program I search but instead google is giving only info the new version of it that I don't need, let me explain. I search for a game engine called "unreal editor 2.0", its a game engine founded in 1999, and there is other one that is called "unreal engine, that was founded like 2012(don't remember), and sure the newer one is more popular, everybody is using "unreal engine" because its a engine that allows you to make a game from scratch. The older one is just to make addons and mods for a specified game. Because when I write lets say "I want to create a sky in unreal editor 2.0", google doesn't think that I need a tutorial especially for the "editor" he just sees moreover that I typed "in unreal" and is thinking that I want the unreal "engine" instead of the "editor". I want to remove from search any kind of site that has the word "engine" or a specific word. Actually from the title of it, because it could have the word in the content. Is that possible

LOL

So I remember being taught to separate the requests by commas, is that no longer needed?

Super helpful list of tips...I took notes the whole time so ..... I am armed and dangerous now. 👍🇨🇦🇺🇸😎

literally not a single of those worked for me omegaluliguess

In the last segment (wildcard *),
I cannot •see•, on my screen, whether the quick brown cowpucky is in quotations or not, like the entire search sentence.. are those •asterisks• on both sides AND within the statement or are they •quotes• on either side and asterisks only •within• the sentence?
Does that make sense?
I have no clue if anyone will ever see this on a year old video but I am hoping this is of the timeless knowledge vintage and someone! with a larger screen or better eyes can assist me! Thank you!
Fervently awaiting a reply, Suki

The "dont thank me send money" comment took me out 😂😂

What about a search of only current data and not more than 1 month old?

Xxxxx

FAB!

the plus symbol doesn't work anymore. it is replaced by double quotes.

might want to do a followup video or remove this one

Thanks for the video but I don't understand the number 5 Domain Searching can you explain more please? what short cut ?

heh, ya seem to really not want to find anything about Saskatchewan!

mldc

I don't see it mentioned by anyone else in the comments, but Google abandoned the plus operator way back in 2011. They never really said why, but people speculated that it was so that they could use the '+' as a prefix operator to search for Google Plus (RIP) users.

To get the same functionality now, you have to double-quote the search term, e.g. "eggs" vs. +eggs.

Google's search index quality arguably isn't what it used to be, so it would be interesting to see you do a video on Kagi, if you're familiar with this paid search engine. Subscriptions allow them to eschew all forms of advertising, and searches of their index return very specific and accurate results. Many of the techniques we use or used to use on Google to narrow the focus of our searches simply become unnecessary with Kagi.

Thank you for all of the great content you produce. Not only are you knowledgeable and razor sharp in your field, your presentation is always erudite and engaging as well. It's truly a breath of fresh air.

As of a few weeks, using quotation marks to find exact results doesn't work any more.

Don't thank me, send money is something I'm now going to use in everyday conversation

nice