Google understood in its main function of search engine is more powerful than you think, capable of finding anything you want. The Internet is now made up of billions of web pages so standard searches can always end up with the same results, but knowing how to search, you can find even unthinkable things on Google, going to explore the depths of the immense sea of the internet. You just need to know the right tricks so here we see a summary of what you can find with Google, listing 10 types of precise, useful, curious and interesting searches .
1) Use Google to search on certain sites
If you find an interesting site like Navigaweb.net, which does not have an effective search engine inside, you can take advantage of Google to find things inside. For example, if you want to find an old Repubblica article, just type on Google site: repubblica.it followed by the search term (for example: site: repubblica.it berlusconi). This applies to all favorite sites, forums, blogs and even web services.
2) Find the names of things, products, recipes or anything else with the search by image
Google image search is very useful for knowing what that thing you see in a photo is, or for knowing the brand of a commercial object or the author of a painting. The image search also allows you to know the recipe of a photographed dish, perhaps at the restaurant, to know all its ingredients or to know where to buy a piece of furniture seen at a friend's house.
3) Get tips and inspiration from the auto-complete feature
One of Google's most curious features is auto-completion which suggests searches based on popular habits. For example, you can search for "how to unlock an iPhone", then delete the word unlock and see other suggestions of things to look for. You can also write an incomplete sentence like "today I want" or "how to do" to find new inspirations.
We also saw how Google suggestions can be used to see what Italians are looking for or to find answers to difficult questions such as: "the secret of life is" "berlusconi is" "facebook is" and so on. The operator * is the wild symbol that can be used between words in a Google search.
4) Find files to download of any kind
If you want to find an application to download for the Android phone without using the store, if you want to download an MP3, or a PDF or an eBook book, you can use Google and search directly for the download links.
The operators to use in the search are: inurl, title and filetype.
For example, to find a song, search for -inurl: htm -inurl: html title: "index of" "song title" mp3 or to find applications -inurl: htm -inurl: html title: "index of" apk .
To find a book -inurl: htm -inurl: html title: "index of" + ("/ ebooks" | "/ book") + (chm | pdf | zip) + "book title" .
5) Discover alternatives to popular products, applications, websites or other
Searching for comparisons on Google is a classic, you can search for Mac vs Windows or iPhone vs Samsung, but if you don't know what to compare a product with and want to look for alternatives to an object of any type, just read the car's automatic suggestions -completion. For example, Xbox vs to find consoles similar to the Xbox, or search better than iPhone and then click before the word better and make a space to see what is better than an iPhone.
6) Access Google Cache Directly from the search bar
Google Cache becomes a great tool for opening blocked sites or temporarily going offline for some reason. The cache is created by Google by saving a copy of each website on its servers. To open the cache of a site just type in Google: cache: address, (for example cache: //navigaweb.net). If you want to simplify the process even more, there is a bookmarklet to keep on the bookmarks bar that just click to open the cache of the site you are visiting.
READ ALSO: How to access blocked or clogged sites.
7) Use Google as a proxy to visit blocked sites
If a site does not open because it is blocked in our country, without spending too much time looking for proxies or particular methods, you can simply use Google Translate or Google Mobilizer to open it. Just write the address you want to navigate like in this example: //translate.google.com/translate "> specific bookmarklet.
8) Search for photos of people on Google Images
To search for a person's photo, put their name in Google Images and then, in Search Tools, select Type -> Faces .
9) Get more recent or updated results or based on a certain period of time
For each search, you can press on Search tools to select to filter the results by time: last 24 hours, day or week.
If you want something more specific, like the last 10 minutes, you can change the URL on the address bar and add the & tbs = qdr: parameter at the end. For example: //www.google.it/search?q=repubblica&tbs=qdr:n10 .
n indicates the minutes, h the hours si seconds.
10) Advanced operators
We have already talked about advanced Google operators in other articles, for example to include or exclude words or to make calculations and obtain immediate results.
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