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Many people search for things on
Google, but don’t know how to use it to its fullest potential. Here are some ways to help you find what you’re looking for.

• Search for: [word]

  This is the standard search most users start with on the site. It returns as many results as possible on your [word], based on the links to that web page and the number of page hits it receives.

• Search for: [word] [word] …

  This search is like the above example, except it includes two or more words. The only difference is that the word order affects the basis of the search.

• Search for: [verb] [noun1] OR [noun2]
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  Search outcomes for these words are [verb] [noun1] and [verb] [noun2]. Personally, I don’t find much use for this.

• Search for: “[phrase]”

  You can search for any word or phrase you put in the quotes, and will only receive results for the exact phrase detailed in the quotes

• Search for: [word1] -[word2]

  This search, in my opinion, is the most useful one. It searches for the first word, but omits any results with the second word. This is extremely pertinent when searching for a word with multiple meanings, such as salsa. If [word1] is salsa, and [word2] is dance, then you will most likely get results about the edible salsa, and not the dance.

• Search for: [word] ~glossary

  Doing this search will mean receiving glossaries about the [word]. It’s useful when looking up information.

• Search for: [word1]-[word2]

  This searches for all forms of the hyphenated words, such as the words together without a space, the hyphenated without a space, and words separated by a space.

• Search for: Define:[word]

  This is pretty self-explanatory. It searches for all definitions of [word].

• Search for: [number] + – * / [number], [num] % of [num], [num]^[num]

  This performs math for you.

• Search for: [units1] in [units1]

  This converts units for you. Example: 100 lbs in kgs.