Know How to Google Is Important. Do You Know How Do It?

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Knowing how to google is the most important skill for a developer. Everyone uses Google. Junior developers, mid or senior. It's not cheating to google everything! But do you really know how to google more efficiently? Let me show you some google hacks 👨‍💻.

Explicit phase

Search for an explicit phrase by enclosing it in quotation marks.

Site Search

Refine your search to a specific site using the site: command. For example, typing on the google site:stackoverflow.com will search only on StackOverflow. 💪

Multiple words

Search for multiple words using a plus sign.

Exclude a word

The minus sign - allows you to specify words that that shouldn't show up in your results.

Related words

The tilde ~ operator searches for related words, not just the word you type.

Wildcard

The asterisk * is a wildcard. That means it can match any word! Combine it with the explicit search for awesome results.

Time range

A lot of answers on the internet are outdated. Use a time range operator to narrow the scope.

File type

Narrow the scope of your search to a specific filetype! If you use operator filetype:pdf, you will get only PDF results!

Advanced Search.

You can combine all of the above methods in Google Advanced Search 🤓

Thanks for reading!

Comments

[Daniel Fronde]

Thanks for sharing

[Rahul Banerjee]

Great Resource!

[Ravi Varma]

Great resource thanks for sharing!

[Anthony DiPietrantonio]

An extremely underrated skill for anyone, let alone developers. Great share 🍺

[Ai]

Thanks for sharing

[Francisco Quintero 🇨🇴]

What's the difference in "Search for multiple words using a plus sign" between "flexbox+grid" vs flexbox grid ?

Nice tips!