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How to Google Properly and find Results

As developers, you are not expected to know every single thing about programming. Therefore, it is important to learn how to research properly, so you can get the information you need better and faster. In this article, we will learn how to use Google like real developers, to do that you need to learn these search operators.

10+ Google Search Operators

1. Quotation marks ("")

Wrap your search term with quotation marks to get an exact match of that word or phrase.

Example: "LinkedIn marketing jobs"

2. site:

Search within a certain website or web domain.

Example: site:hashnode.com

3. related:

Find websites with content similar to a certain website.

Example: related:hashnode.com

4. cache:

Find Google's most recent cached (saved) version of a webpage.

Example: cache:dev.to

5. filetype:

Search for only one type of file.

Example: filetype:PDF

6. weather:

Find the weather for a location by city, state, county, or ZIP code.

Example: weather:300001

7. stocks:

Get information about a stock, including its price and recent trends.

Example: stocks:Google

8.map:

See a map of a location.

Example: map: California

9. define:

Find the definition of a word.

Example:define:programming

10.intitle

Search a page title for a word or phrase.

Example: intitle:HTML

11.intext:

Search for words within a webpage's body text.

Example: intext:programming

Please note that more than one of these operators can be used e.g*

site: developer.mozilla.org intext:"clip"

conclusion

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Now you know how to Google like a pro.
Happy Googling

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