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Improve Your Google Search Using These Operators (+ Pizza)
Google search operators are special characters and commands that can be added to a Google search query to help refine and specify the results.
These operators can be used to search for specific types of content, such as images or news articles, or to search within a specific website or domain. They can also be used to exclude certain terms from the search results or to search for exact phrases, and many more.
In this article, we‘ll explore the various Google search operators and their uses, as well as some advanced techniques for using them to improve your search results.
We use the Google Search Engine almost every day to search for all sorts of stuff. Why not make our lives easier?
The site: operator
This is used to limit your search results to those of one site. For example, if you want information about Elon Musk but only from Wikipedia you can try searching for: Elon Musk site:wikipedia.org
The filetype: operator
This is used to limit your search to specific file types. For example, if you want to search for .pdf files of Elon Musk you will use Elon Musk filetype: pdf
