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Marko Denic
Marko Denic

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Use Google like a pro

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"

Exact Match

2 . AND operator will return only results related to both terms:

html AND css

AND operator

3 . You can use the OR operator to get the results related to one of the search terms

(javascript OR python) free course

OR opeator

4 . - operator will exclude results that contain a term or phrase:

javascript -css

Minus operator

5 . You can use the (*) wildcards as placeholders, which will be replaced by any word or phrase.

"how to start * in 6 months"

Wildcard operator

6 . Search inside a single website:

site:freecodecamp.org

Site operator

7 . You can also use a very useful feature that helps to find a specific file type.

filetype:pdf learn css

Search by filetype

8 . Search for a range of numbers:

ecmascript 2016..2018

Search by number range

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Frulow

Very helpful, thanks.

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Marko Denic

My pleasure!

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Nguyen

Thank you so much!!

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Marko Denic

Glad you like it. Enjoy!

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Nilakandi

test

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Lalit Patil

Thanks for this.

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Marko Denic

My pleasure. Thanks for reading.

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bravemaster619

thanks for the links

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Gealber Morales

Really useful

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Marko Denic

Thanks a lot!

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NghiaDoan20

Thanks for a useful post.

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Marko Denic

No worries. It's a pleasure.

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Stokry

Nice one!

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Al Nahian

Wow, really impressive!

Thank you so much for your brilliant tips.

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Leon

That's helpful. Thanks

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Folarin Lawal

Nice

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