Googling is one of the most important skills for every developer.
Let me show you how to get better at Googling.
Let's start!
1 . Use quotes to force an exact-match search:
"what is javascript"
2 . AND operator will return only results related to both terms:
html AND css
3 . You can use the OR operator to get the results related to one of the search terms
(javascript OR python) free course
4 . - operator will exclude results that contain a term or phrase:
javascript -css
5 . You can use the (*) wildcards as placeholders, which will be replaced by any word or phrase.
"how to start * in 6 months"
6 . Search inside a single website:
site:freecodecamp.org
7 . You can also use a very useful feature that helps to find a specific file type.
filetype:pdf learn css
8 . Search for a range of numbers:
ecmascript 2016..2018
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Latest comments (55)
oooh.... TBF, I did already know about many of these, but while reading this and a few of the comments, I just had the most amazing thought: imagine Google Search with syntax highlighting for the input field...
nothing quite like a little splash of colour for some user feedback while typing a search query, hey? (:
now I just wish I didn't have ideas like this while I was at work.. I have other things to do right now.
Great One
I've been thinking of this. Thank you.****
Thx for this! This is really what I wanted. Helped A LOT.
Can I translate in Korean this article? If you don't mind, I wanna share this awesome information in Korean. Surely, There will be a link directing to this original one.
I love the currency calculations tool as well with the time calculations. For example 100 USD to EUR and it will return you the valid value with latest exchange rate.
For time calculations I love to use it e.g. like this: '(1 hour 25 minutes + 33 minutes - 8 minutes) = '. Keep in mind that you need provide the "=" sign to make it work. It's also useful while converting the units eg '3 hours 44 minutes to minutes' or '8 inches to cm'
Hello, may I translate your article into Chinese?I would like to share it with more developers in China. I will give the original author and original source.
Sure. No problem.
i knew about the first once but i'm sure the rest will come in handy as i'm working on new projects with python and SQL - thanks!
Thank you.
It's awesome article but how do you exclude a phrase, it seems I can only exclude one word at a time.
I searched with the keyword:
javascript tutorialtaking note of the phrase:building tutorials with lots of examplesas seen in the image below:Then I excluded it by combining the exclusion sign i.e.
-and exact word matching character i.e. the double quotes which gives us:javascript tutorial -"building tutorials with lots of examples".This produces different results excluding that phrase as seen in the image below:
You should know that in the first search without the exclusion the search result was
1.2 billion, and with the exclusion it's3.2 billion.I hope this helps.
Wow! Very useful tips!
Great post, thanks for sharing!
Ohho, you are look like an SEO guy! Thanks.
Thanks
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