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How to use Google Search Operators for more accurate results

• Data 22/07/2024
• Autor Costin Dumitru
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Google search operators, or characters you can add to your search word or phrase, help you find more refined and targeted results. By focusing on certain keywords and excluding others, they allow you to use Google more accurately and effectively. Search operators can include:

• Words such as AND or OR
• Punctuation such as quotation marks
• Symbols such as @ or $

Any combination of these                                                                                                                                             

12 Basic search operators

1. Surround your search term with quotation marks to get an exact match of that word or phrase.
   Example: “B2B marketing jobs”
   
2. The asterisk, known as a wildcard, searches for any word or phrase you include.
   Example: terriers * labradors
   
3. Place OR (all caps) between two words to combine searches. Use it to search for results that have one of those words but not both.
   Example: B2B OR B2CAND
   
   
4. Place AND (all caps) between two words if you want your results to include both.
   Example: B2B AND B2C
   
   
5. The pipe symbol does the same thing as OR.
   Example: B2B | B2C
6. Put a search term between parenthesis to group commands.
   Example: (B2B OR B2C) marketing jobs
7. Put a hyphen before any term you want to exclude from results.
   Example: dog breeds -terriers
8. If you want to search for a number between a range of numbers, place two periods between that range.
   Example: election results 1996..2016
9. Use a dollar sign to search for prices. You can use the Euro sign to search for prices in that currency.
   Example: piano $1500
10. Use this symbol to search for results in social media.
    Example: @twitter
11. Use this symbol to search for hashtags.
    Example: #sundayfunday
12. Put “in” between two units you want to convert.
    Example: 100 F in C

How to use Google Search operators

You can use Google Search operators to find information the same way you would search for any topic or keyword:

1. 1. Think of a topic you want to research.
   2. Decide if you want to narrow your search by excluding certain results or looking for information from one particular website.
   3. Find a search operator to perform your specific search. 4. Enter your search term and search operator into the Google Search box.
   4. Press enter. Google then returns a list of filtered results based on your search term and search operator.

*There are many more advanced search operators and tools, but this should be enough to improve drastically your searches accuracy.