You’re using Google WRONG – there’s a genius hack everyone should know

GOOGLE is a part of our everyday lives – but are you using it the right way?

There are some hidden tricks to get more out of your searches.

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So you will often search for something, only to find that you don’t get exactly what you hoped for.

What you need to do is a Moderator – these affect how Google “read” your searches.

The two main Operators were shared in a popular clip from TikTok creator @ellyawesometech.

In that video, Elly reveals how you can put a minus symbol right before a word (direct contact, no spaces) to remove it from Google Search.

For example, if you want to read about Alexander Hamilton but not the musical, you can search: Alexander Hamilton -musical -broadway

This will tell Google not to show search results with those terms in.

Another trick is to use quotes to find exact matches on phrases.

For example, you can search for burgers by bean and get results for other burgers as well.

But if you search for “bean burger”, Google will search for that exact term – greatly improving your search.

You can also remove entire phrases using the minus symbol and quotes using a combination of the methods above.

Elly only shared two Google Executives in her viral clip, but there’s a lot you can try.

Other Google operators to try

There are many Operators to use on Google.

Typing intitle: will allow you to find pages with words in the title.

The same, similar, allintitle: will only show results with all words in the title.

You can use inurl: and allinurl: to have the same effect for URLs.

Use around (x) The operator will make sure that your search terms now contain more than “x” words on the page.

You can use site: insertURL.com Operator to search on a particular site.

And you can combine a OR Operator and bracket to combine search terms, like so: (blueberry OR banana) muffin

It is also possible to swap OR for AND to make sure you get both terms in your results.

Finally, you can specify the result using file type:so you can search for a PDF or JPG file.

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