05/01/2023

Google Search Tips & Tricks

Presenter: Ousman Faal

www.faalictacademy.com

Overview Searching Google

This guide covers selected tips and tricks to refine your search technique.

Please note:The tips and tricks described on this guide are

subject to change.Google can personalise search results. Your

search results may be different from someone else’s.

About Google • Google was founded by Larry Page

and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University in January 1996. • Their mission statement was "to

organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful“.

Simple search query

Using the minus sign (-)

Dictionary Definitions

Fill in the Blank using the Asterisk sign (*)

Fill in the Blank using the Asterisk sign (*)

Using double dots (..)

Using double quotes (“”)

Using Intitle

Using (OR)

Synonym search using tilde sign(~)

Using (brackets)

Image Search

Downloading Images

Public Data

Time search

Downloading word files

Downloading pdf files

Downloading Video files

Calculating in Google search

I’m Feeling Lucky

I’m Feeling Lucky

Other Google products

Google Maps

Google News

Google Drive

Google Calendar

Google Calendar

Google Plus

Google Translate

Sports Scores

Sports Scores

Weather Search

Currency conversion

Google Voice Search

Related search

Flight Schedules

Profile search

Unit converter

Spell checker