Discover some little-known Google tools and tricks that can help you find exactly what you're looking for
That the Google it's a powerful tool, the whole internet already knows.
When searching for a very recurring item, for example, it is very likely that the site will find what you are looking for with a multitude of other related items and undesirable.
In some cases, even, the great amount of results can more hinder than to help.
But did you know it is possible to do the Google understand exactly what are you looking for? The newspaper The New York Times listed a series of tricks that can be used in site searches and that effectively increase the accuracy of results.
Check out the tips listed by the newspaper (and some others) below:
Use quotes to find a specific word or phrase
Know when you search for a particular item and the Google returns a series of similar things, but not exactly what you sought? Well, know that it is possible to avoid this type of problem by placing the desired term between "quotation marks".
In this way, you tell the searcher that one keyword your search, preventing it from showing you results just like what you want.
The quote tip is also used to to specify it's a search for something.
Say, for example, that you want to know the screen size of the Galaxy S10.
To find this information, it is necessary to search in a way similar to how the information is written for example: Galaxy S10 "inch".
When searching this way in Google, it is possible to verify that the model has a 6.1 inch screen without don't even need to click results.
If it is necessary to open the link, however, you can use the shortcut Ctrl + F in your browser to find the term within the page.
An asterisk for words you don't remember
That story of looking for a song and never finding it is over, right?This tip complements the previous tip and is for when you want to find a specific item, however, not sure of the words you should use.
This can occur when you are looking for a music, for example.
If you do not remember all the terms of the verse or name of the song, you can use a asterisk in place of the missing word.
Example: "* You Sleep – Sam Smith ”.
The search engine will understand that you are looking for the song "How do You Sleep" by singer Sam Smith, even though the word "How" has not been entered in search.
Filter the results of a search by date
O Google always try to show you the result last or with the largest number of accesses.
However, it is possible that you are looking for a page linked to a specific event in the past.
To assist you in these situations, the search engine allows you to filter search results by date: It is possible to display only the results of the last 24 hours, the last week, the last year and even a specific range of days.
To do this, search normally and, on the results page, click on the “Tools“, Located just below the search bar.
Then click on the option “Any date”And change to the desired time interval.
Then the results page will be updated automatically.
View only the pages of a specific site
It is possible to filter the results with only the sites you follow and trustLet's say you are looking for a very popular article, but want to access it at a specific website, like the Showmetech.
In this case, just add the command “website: showmetech.br”To restrict your search to the pages of our website.
In a search for rumors of the Galaxy S11, for example, you could type "Galaxy S11 Site: showmetech.br" and view everything that we already publish about it.
To use the command “site:”No problem, it is important to remember that you must type the full address of the website, with the items “.with" and ".br", if there is.
Just typing the site name doesn't work.
Exclude terms you don't want in the results
Millions of results in one click are useless if none of them concerns what you want, correct? Knowing this, Google allows you to delete the words you don't want to see in the search, which can be done by adding the minus sign (-) next to the term you want to avoid.
This feature is especially useful when you search for a term homonym the other.
Homonyms are words that have the same spelling or pronunciation, but have different meanings.
When searching for a term with this characteristic, it is possible that you will find results with completely different meanings desired.
In these cases, use the – to exclude terms related to the namesake that you are not looking for.
So the Google exclude the word from the search and return only results that do not contain that term.
Converting measures and currencies with ease
Google is able to perform mathematical accounts, in addition to converting currencies and measurementschances are you’ve already researched a math account and obtained the result from the own Google.
However, did you know that he is capable of convert measures and coins just as quickly? For this, however, I need to know how to enter the items to be converted, so that the search engine understand that you are conducting a conversion.
To convert coins, for example, just enter the value and abbreviation of the source currency, followed by the word “in” and the abbreviation of the target currency.
Did it seem complex? Then try typing “10 BRL to USD"Or"10 USD to BRL" at the Google.
The search engine understands that you want to convert a value of reais (BRL) into dollars (USD) and vice versa.
The same trick can be used with other currencies, such as the Euro (EUR) and the pound (GBP).
If the goal is to convert measures, the very similar step by step.
You need to enter the number you want to convert, followed by the source measure, the term “in” and, finally, the target measure.
Example: “10 CM in POL“.
The search will also work if you type "centimeters" and "inches" in full.
Search for a specific image with reverse search
The search engines of Google so smart that they can already recognize similar images each other.
Such ability can be quite useful when what you are looking for is not a text, but a photo.
Say you found an image and want to find out on which pages it appears, or want to find it in a better resolution: the Google can help.
To do this, obtain the image file or the link to it.
After that, open the Google and in the top right corner, click on “Images“.
Click the camera icon in the search bar, then paste the image link or click “Submit an image”To upload the file.
If you just want to paste the link, it is important that it is from the image in itself, on the page where the image appears.
After confirming the search, the Google go search for the photo, first indicating the same results in different resolutions (if any), the visually similar results just below and, finally, show in which pages from the internet such an image was displayed.
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