Google like a Professional

In today's world of smartphone and computer, everybody knows how to google or how to search for anything on google but not everyone knows how to be a true genius of it. 

Here are some simple yet effective ways of maximizing your google search and make you a professional to use it like a boss.....

1. Quotation Marks (" ") 

Use the quotation marks to search for an exact word or the set of words. Putting the words under quotes is very useful for searching any quotes or song lyrics or poetry.

use -            "love you like a love song"

2. Dash (-)

You can use a dash before a word that you don't want or you want to exclude it. Sometimes you got many results for a single word and in which you're not interested. So, in that case, figure out the term that you want to eliminate it from your search and put a dash (minus sign) before it and search.

use -      Jaguar -car

3.  Tilde (~)

Tilde sign is used before a word that you want to include in your search. You can say that it works like an opposite to dash. Dash exclude the word in search and tilde include the word in the term.

use -    Christmas ~dessert

4. Site: query

Use the site: keyword to search for a specific website related to any word. It functions as a google search that searches only a particular website.

use -   site:time.com

5.  Two Periods (..)

Use two periods or two dots between two numbers to express a range of things like date, measurements and prices.

use - Bollywood movies 1970.. 1980 

6. An asterisk (*) within quotes

Searching a phrase in quotes with an asterisk replacing a word will search all variations of that phrase. It’s helpful if you’re trying to determine a song from its lyrics, but you couldn’t make out the entire phrase.

use - "*love you like a love song"

7. Define: query

You can use google dictionary by just writing define: before any word. It gives the definition of that word as well as its slang words or acronyms.

use - define: elucidation