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The Art of Googling

Gift Egwuenu on September 08, 2019

Inspired by this article from localghost.dev, I've decided to write mine but with a twist. In this article, I'll be outlining some tips for improvi...

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Chris Achard • Sep 8 '19

Nice tips and neat look into what you searched for in a week :)

I definitely agree that "how to google" is a skill that is really important to learn as a developer... properly using keywords to get the right answer is sometimes an art. Thanks for the post!

Gift Egwuenu • Sep 9 '19

Thanks Chris.

Espoir Murhabazi • Sep 9 '19

Good stuff sister!
I like the intext one.

There is another favorite tip I use sometimes which helps to include or exclude a word from the search.

Maybe you can add it, more Infos here

Gift Egwuenu • Sep 10 '19

Thanks Espoir!

Christine Pinto • Sep 10 '19

Thanks for sharing your insights and I definitely agree with your conclusion.
My favourite google search hack is "the – Operator". It is very helpful if a keyword is also used outside of the technology field, for example.

Ryan Connolly • Sep 17 '19 • Edited

Great, I broke google :(

Gift Egwuenu • Sep 17 '19

Haha this is hilarious 😆

Erik Vårdal Itland • Sep 22 '19

I wrote a similar post back in August: erik.itland.no/a-few-tricks-for-se...

Added a link to you since I had forgotten to mention / never learned a couple of your tricks (and for what it is worth there are also a few others in my post that aren't mentioned here.)

Gift Egwuenu • Sep 23 '19

Thanks for sharing Erik! I will check out yours to find more gems :)

Christian Gröber • Sep 11 '19

I'm seriously considering teaching this stuff to my scout group (I'm a scout leader). Sure, we teach them how to knot properly or how to cook on a fire, but they just can't google, even though that's such an important skill in today's world (My little brother once asked me something, I didn't know the answer so I told him "Google it" and he just typed his question into the searchbar!)

Soo yeah, anyways, thanks a lot, especially for the "intext:" and "site:" tip, that's actually super helpful.

As for the asterisk one, I just always delete any custom names and it works fine.

Gift Egwuenu • Sep 11 '19

Yes do it! I think this is not just meant for only technical folks. Everyone needs to know how to use google.

Mark Roeling • Sep 10 '19

Don't forget the must-include option, adding double quotes (") around the obligated keyword.

Elie Vangu • Sep 16 '19 • Edited

I’m pretty happy to be a SEO since 2009 and a ReactJS developper for 2 years now and i tell you it helps 😊

kidkkr • Sep 9 '19

Out of curiousity, I've found that intext query searches only texts in body tag.
spyfu.com/blog/google-search-opera...
Thanks for the post!

Gift Egwuenu • Sep 9 '19 • Edited

Thanks for sharing the link. I understand Intitle searches the title and intext searches text within the body. Updated the article to reflect that.

Sarah Chima • Sep 9 '19

Great tips Gift!!! Thanks for sharing.

Gift Egwuenu • Sep 9 '19

Thanks Sarah.

Matheus Dias Vieira • Sep 9 '19

This is amazing, thanks for sharing!

Victor Ayodeji Ogundola • Oct 21 '19

Great read. Thanks for the tips.

Silvija Prozinger • Sep 10 '19

Great tips, thank you for sharing! For us beginners it's rather comforting to know that even professionals have to use the good ol' Google sometimes 😃