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How to use Google Search like a pro to get better results when you research and write better articles

The document provides techniques for using Google Search effectively to enhance research and article writing. It covers various search operators such as Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT), wildcard usage, exact term searching, site-specific searches, and file type restrictions. These strategies aim to improve the relevance and efficiency of search results for users.

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How to use Google Search like a pro to get better results when you research and write better articles

The document provides techniques for using Google Search effectively to enhance research and article writing. It covers various search operators such as Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT), wildcard usage, exact term searching, site-specific searches, and file type restrictions. These strategies aim to improve the relevance and efficiency of search results for users.

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How to use Google Search like a pro

to get better results when you


research and write better articles
How to use Google Search like a pro to get better
results when you research and write better articles

Using Google to find search results faster can be pretty useful in your success as a young
professional or in your internship. Most people do not know about the tricks and hacks that
can really amplify the effectiveness of their searches. In this chapter we are going to share
the search techniques you can use most commonly for better search results, whether you
are searching for reports or news items. This can be very time consuming, but Google
comes in handy and can help save you a lot of time by using the search operators.

1. Boolean Operators:
The search operators are always used in capitals or else google considers them as
normal search terms.

a. AND operator: It is used to search for the results which includes both the terms.
A simple example can be if I want to search for vegetarian food and non
vegetarian food. When I simply search for the term “vegetarian food” and the
“non vegetarian food” by writing “vegetarian non vegetarian food” the results
contain a lot trivial links and there may not be links which contain all of the
terms together.

To filter my results and restrict it to those related with the real data my new
search query will be “vegetarian and non vegetarian food”.

b. OR operator: This operator is used to filter your search results to one of the
either terms before or after the OR operator.

If I wish to make vegetarian or non-vegetarian food, searching for recipes for


each separately for each will take time and if you use the OR operator the
search results will contain the recipes regarding both vegetarian and
non-vegetarian food.

c. NOT operator: Suppose you want to search for a specific term and wish to omit
one aspect of it. So to restrict the search results to the aspect to which you are
looking for you can just use NOT operator to remove all the results which
contain the term you do not desire to look for.

Suppose I wish to buy a black purse which is not made of leather and the search
results also contain links about the leather purse, I can use the NOT operator to
exclude those search results which contain the term leather.

d. Wildcard Operator (*): Now so as to look for the terms a part of which is
unknown the wildcard operator can be used. If I wish to look for a song and full
title is unknown to me. I can simply use the wildcard operator to suggest all
possible results which can come from the available term. For example: If I am
looking for the song “Whole Lotta Love” and I only remember the beginning and

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the ending part of the song. Then I can search Google for “Whole * Love” and the
exact song will come up.

2. Searching for the exact term:


One can also look for an exact term. For example, if I wish to search for reports on
freelancing career. So as to look for the exact reports I can use the double quotes,
which will restrict my results to only links those which contain the exact term as
mentioned within the double quotes. So my search query will be “reports on
freelancing career” I have used a screenshot for the search “career in freelance
writing”. In the first result, incidentally, the exact keywords are not present, but it is a
relevant search. Google has introduced some amount of artificial intelligence in the
search algorithms.

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3. Mixing the operators


One can also narrow down its research by mixing the various operators in case what
you are searching for is not easily available. For example, the search query
“freelancing” & “content writing” will reveal results which have both expressions.

4. Site Search
There are many documents which we want to obtain only from a specific site. For
example, I would like to obtain the freelancing reports from the website of Upwork
only. Hence, I can type “freelancing report site: Upwork” in Google (without the
quotes).

Thus, if you wish to search for documents from a specific site, use the keyword ‘site:’
followed by the URL address of the website. For Economic Times website, enter the
search query as ‘site: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/’.

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5. Searching for a specific file type


One can also look for a specific file type in google. Just type filetype:docs or pdf. This will
restrict your result to only those filetype which you want.

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