How To: Use Google search shortcuts
Google searching shortcuts to help you get the most out of your searches.
Google searching shortcuts to help you get the most out of your searches.
In this Googler's guide from the folks at Mahalo, we learn how to limit search results to a particular national domain like .co.uk or .ru. For all of the relevant details, and to get started using this handy Google hack yourself, watch this video tutorial.
In this webmaster's guide, you'll learn whether it's important or not to have people-readable keywords in your URL path. Whether you're new to the world of search engine optimization (SEO) or are merely looking to pick up a few new tips and tricks, you're unlikely to find a better source than this official video guide from Google. Take a look.
Looking for an easy way to protect your privacy when using Google Search? With the right habits, it's easy. So easy, in fact, that this home-computing how-to from the folks at CNET can present a complete overview of the process in just over a minute. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look.
In this screencast from Screencast Central we find out how to find out our local weather forecast, search within a specific website, ask Google a fact based question like the population of the USA and finally find out more about local businesses.
Find lyrics to an unknown song by logging on to the Internet and typing in a few words from that song into a search engine. Locate lyrics to an unknown song with tips from a professional musician in this free video on music.
Find MP3 files using Google by typing in the name of the song using quotation marks. Locate MP3 files with tips from a professional musician in this free video on music.
Protect your privacy by using Google Search over SSL. With Firefox, it's easy! And this brief video tutorial from the folks at Butterscotch will teach you everything you need to know. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started using Google Search in SSL mode yourself, take a look.
As Eric Hughes writes in his "A Cypherpunk's Manifesto," privacy, otherwise known as the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world, is necessary for a free and open society. One way to protect your privacy is through clear your Google search bar history (not to be confused with your Google Search History, which you may also want to disable). This tutorial will teach how to do just that. Take a look.
Google recently rewrote their search algorithm to make "low-quality sites" disappear from your front page results, putting the emphasis on better, more relevant answers with original content and in-depth information. And now Google has added a new feature to their search system that gives you some of the control of what you see in your results.
Google is rolling out a new feature that will integrate your Gmail account with Google searches. The feature will add results pulled from your email correspondences to create more "personalized" Google search results. Google is currently doing a test run of the service. To activate it for your account, head on over to this page to sign up. It's currently restricted to the English version of the site, and for those with @gmail.com email addresses (not available on Google Apps accounts). And be...
Today, a server-side update to Google Search added the ability to take pictures and videos directly from voice commands in Google Search. Simply say "take a photo/picture" or "record/take a video" from Google Search, and your camera app will automatically open up, either in camera or camcorder mode, depending on the command it received.
One of the things I consistently notice amongst fellow internet users is that many people don't know how to properly search for stuff. Google may have served you well in the past, but I'm going to share a few little tricks with you to help make your search results even spiffier.
Check out how to turn your Google page into a cool page for goths. Call it gothic Google if you will, but use it as your Google search engine instead of the normal engine. Just type in "gothengine" and press "I'm Feeling Lucky".
Google Instant is one of Google's many search innovations, this one causing search results to emerge continuously below the search bar as you type. This can allow you to find more search results faster, and this video wills show you how it works, including how to turn it off if you decide you want Google to wait until you're finished typing before searching.
Google is the biggest and best search engine on Earth, and if you are a webmaster and want your website to be a big success it would really behoove you to know as much about how it works as possible. The Google Webmasters series of videos and website were created to teach webmasters, SEO professionals, and others how Google works by answering their questions and giving them insights into how they can best integrate and utilize Google's functionality to improve their business. This video will ...
Google has it fingers in just about every digital pie there is, including the App Store of their leading smartphone OS competitor, Apple. This video will show you how to use the Google Mobile App for the iPhone, a great app that allows you to do Google voice searches and all sorts of other handy search tasks. Apple is pretty sweet, but Apple and Google together is a huge mobile phone combo.
Google is the biggest and best search engine on Earth, and if you are a webmaster and want your website to be a big success it would really behoove you to know as much about how it works as possible. The Google Webmasters series of videos and website were created to teach webmasters, SEO professionals, and others how Google works by answering their questions and giving them insights into how they can best integrate and utilize Google's functionality to improve their business. This video will ...
Wish there were a way to search Twitter using Google Search? Well, there is! With Google's Update Search tool, it's easy! So easy, in fact, that this home-computing how-to from the folks at TekZilla can present a complete overview of the process in just over two minutes. For more information, including step-by-step instructions, and to get started searching tweets with Google, take a look.
Google is always moving one step closer to pretty much controlling everything in the world, in a good way ofcourse! The latest feature added is Google Instant Search, so for anything that you're searching all you have to do is start typing in the search term and Google will immediately begin giving you results on the fly. In this video you will get a quick hands on demo on how to use the new feature.
Google Instant has made searching on the main page of Google faster than ever before. Did you know that there are several keyboard shortcuts that you can use to make it work even faster? This video will show you how to use shortcuts to go to results more quickly and add more time to your day.
Are you kind of befuddled by the new Google image search layout, with its grid features and lack of context? Well, you can revert back to the old format if you don't like the change. In this video, Veronica shows you exactly how to get the old Google image search results you know and love.
Looking for an easy way to track price changes? Look no further. In this clip, you'll learn how to use Google Alerts in tandem with Google's Product Search comparative shopping tool to monitor price changes and find the best value. Fore detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started using this online shopping trick yourself, take a look.
Google is the biggest and best search engine on Earth, and if you are a webmaster and want your website to be a big success it would really behoove you to know as much about how it works as possible. The Google Webmasters series of videos and website were created to teach webmasters, SEO professionals, and others how Google works by answering their questions and giving them insights into how they can best integrate and utilize Google's functionality to improve their business. This video will ...
Best Buy shows us how to use the Google Mobile App for location specific searches on your mobile phone. Google Mobile can find you the nearest restaurant in your town, and provides maps and directions. It's pretty easy to use, and you can use it on many phones, including Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Droid, iPhone, and Nokia.
Need some help making sense of Google's new "Instant" search feature? You're in luck: This brief video tutorial from the folks at Butterscotch will teach you everything you need to know. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started using Google's new Instant Search feature yourself, take a look.
In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to use Google Image Search to find images much as you would use Google search to find webpages. For step-by-step instructions on using Google Image Search, as well a general overview of Google Images, take a look!
This video shows how to make a Google Custom Search Engine. A Custom Search Engine safely searches only the sites you want, and gives you relevant results. To set it up go to the Google home page and sign in. If you don’t have a Google account, you can easily set one up by following the directions. Sign in, then enter in your browser “www.google.com.coop/cse”.
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use special search parameters like "site:" to improve the quality and specificity of your Google search results. For more information, and to get started using these handy search tricks yourself, watch this hacker's how-to from CNET.
In this Googler's guide from the folks at Mahalo, we learn how to use plus and minus signs to force Google to include or not include a word when searching for information about a person online. For all of the relevant details, and to get started using this handy Google hack yourself, watch this video tutorial.
Want to do a little comparative shopping for your next big purchase? With Google Product Search, it's easy. So easy, in fact, that this video guide can present a complete overview of the process in about two minutes. For more information, including step-by-step instructions on how to adjust your own Facebook tagging settings, take a look.
SEO specialist Aaron Wall shares tips on using date based search filters to help you improve your search engine optimization knowledge.
Learn how to use Google Product Search to find the best price when shopping online. This brief video tutorial from the folks at Butterscotch will teach you everything you need to know. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started using Google Product Search yourself, take a look.
Want to get the best price when shopping online? With Google Product Search, it's easier than ever. Don't know how to use it? No problem. This video guide presents a complete, step-by-step overview of the process. For details, and to get started using Google Product Search yourself, take a look.
Last month, Google changed the placement of search options from the left side of the page to the top, right above the first result. In theory, this shouldn't be such a bad thing—it's just looks, right? Well, not quite. Turns out, it actually got rid of a few of the options as well, and a lot of people were not too happy about it. The problem is that the change gives you less functionality, and makes the options that are still there harder to get to. One of the most frustrating changes was how...
Few things are more important than search engine optimization when it comes to increasing a brand's visibility online. Regardless of whether you're launching a new business from scratch or working as a marketing professional at a major corporation, you need to ensure that you're drawing the most people to your website and affiliate links by utilizing the latest and most powerful SEO tools and methods.
Considering that Google makes Android, it's rather strange that the operating system doesn't have a baked-in solution for doing a reverse image search. Sure, you can long-press pictures in Chrome to search for other instances of a photo, but it's not possible with pictures you find in other apps, or photos you've downloaded to your phone.
Google just unveiled it's biggest search product in recent memory, except this time the search giant is looking to take over the world of virtual objects.
Google just added a new feature for mobile search called Handwrite. Just like the name suggests, you can hand write your queries on the screen of your smartphone and it will convert it to text.
Google's personal messaging service Allo could reveal your search history and other private information to friends if the Google Assistant bot is called upon in chats, according to a story from Re/code.