google search
basic
How to search on Google
Learn a few tips and tricks to help you easily find information on Google.
Tip 1: Start with the basics
No matter what you’re looking for, start with a simple search like where’s the closest airport?. You can always add a few descriptive words if necessary.
If you’re looking for a place or product in a specific location, add the location. For example, bakery seattle.
Tip 2: Search using your voice
Tired of typing? To search with your voice, tap the Microphone .
Tip 3: Choose words carefully
When you decide what words to put in the search box, try words that are likely to appear on the site you’re looking for. For example, instead of saying my head hurts, say headache, because that’s the word a medical site uses.
Tip 4: Don’t worry about the little things
Spelling: Google’s spell checker automatically uses the most common spelling of a given word, whether or not you spell it correctly.
Capitalization: A search for New York Times is the same as a search for new york times.
Tip 5: Find quick answers
For many searches, Google will do the work for you and show an answer to your question in the search results. Some features, like information about sports teams, aren’t available in all regions.
Weather: Search weather to see the weather in your location or add a city name, like weather seattle, to find weather for a certain place.
Dictionary: Put define in front of any word to see its definition.
Calculations: Enter a math equation like 3*9123, or solve complex graphing equations.
Unit conversions: Enter any conversion, like 3 dollars in euros.
Sports: Search for the name of your team to see a schedule, game scores and more.
Quick facts: Search for the name of a celebrity, location, movie, or song to find related information.
Find search information about a result
Start a search on Google.
After the URL for a search result, select More .
In the “About this result” panel, scroll to “Your search & this result.”
learn more about a web page
Find info about the source & topic
- Do a search on Google.
- After the URL for a search result, select More .
- In the “Source” section, select More about this page.
- Depending on the info available, you might find 2 sections on this page:
About the Source
About the Topic
Learn more about the source
description:At the top of the “About the source” section, you might find a description of the source from a reference site. These descriptions come from Google’s Knowledge Graph.
in their own words:This is a description of the source as represented by the site itself.
platform information:For some social platforms, this section provides information about the social account or channel that the page represents, not the social platform.
site first indexed my google:This is the date Google first crawled this site.
Learn more about the Topic
top news
These are high quality news headlines about the same story as the page you are learning more about from different sources.
related results
These are web results from other sources about the same topic as the page you want to learn more about. Depending on the topic, these results might contain a combination of news articles, scientific studies, longform pieces, or shopping websites.
filters and tools
all filters:
images
maps
shopping
videos
news
books
flights
finance
tools:
last update:
anytime
past hour
past 24 hours
past week
past month
past year
custom range… from 8/31/2023 to 8/26/2023
all results
verbatim
verbatim /vɜːrˈbeɪtɪm/ 一字不差地
If you repeat something verbatim, you use exactly the same words as were used originally.
Go to Advanced Search from Google
Important: Advanced Search isn’t available for all types of results.
- On your computer, do a search on google.com.
- Below the search box, select the type of results: All, Images, Videos, or Books.
- For more search options, to the right of the search bar, click Settings and then Advanced search.
Use Advanced Search query fields
Important: Search query fields can vary across Advanced Search pages.
In Advanced Search, you can choose words or phrases to include or remove from your results. You can choose:
- “All these words”: Results use all the words you enter.
- “This exact word or phrase”: Results include one exact word or phrase you enter.
- “Any of these words”: Results include at least one of the words you enter.
- “None of these words”: Results don’t have any of the words you enter.
- “Numbers ranging from”: Results include a number between the 2 numbers you enter.
quote search
Sometimes people know they absolutely, positively only want webpages that mention a particular word or phrase. For example, maybe you want to find out about phone chargers but only those that support wireless charging. Fortunately, Google Search has a special operator for that: quotation marks. Put quotes around any word or phrase, such as [“wireless phone chargers”], and we’ll only show pages that contain those exact words or phrases.
Now we’re making quoted searches better. The snippets we display for search results (meaning the text you see describing web content) will be formed around where a quoted word or phrase occurs in a web document. That means you can more easily identify where to find them after you click the link and visit the content. On desktop, we’ll also bold the quoted material.
- all these words:
Type the important words: tricolor rat terrier - this exact word or phrase:
Put exact words in quotes: “rat terrier” - any of these words:
Type OR between all the words you want: miniature OR standard - none of these words:
Put a minus sign just before words you don’t want: -rodent, -“Jack Russell” - numbers ranging from: to
Put 2 periods between the numbers and add a unit of measure: 10..35 lb, $300..$500, 2010..2011
Then narrow your results by…
- language:
Find pages in the language you select. - region:
Find pages published in a particular region. - last update:
Find pages updated within the time you specify. - site or domain:
Search one site (like wikipedia.org ) or limit your results to a domain like .edu, .org or .gov - terms appearing:
Search for terms in the whole page, page title, or web address, or links to the page you’re looking for. - file type:
Find pages in the format you prefer.like .pdf, .ps, .dwf, .kml, .kmz, .xls, .ppt, .doc, .rtf, or .swf. - usage rights:
Find pages you are free to use yourself.-> license - SafeSearch: Remove explicit results.
explicit
Something that is explicit is expressed or shown clearly and openly, without any attempt to hide anything.
sexually explicit scenes in films and books
Advanced Image Search
Try these filters
- Image size: Find images by size or dimensions.like large, medium, icon, large than 400X300, … , large than 1024X768, large than 2 PM, … , large than 70 PM
- Aspect ratio: Find images that are a specific shape like tall, square, wide, or panoramic.
- Colors in image: Find full color, black and white, or transparent images. Or, search for images with a specific color.
- Type of image: Find a specific type of image like photos, clip art, or line drawings. Or, search for face or animated images.
- Region: Find images published in a certain region.
- Site or domain: Search one site like sfmoma.org. Or limit your results to a domain like .edu, .org, or .gov.
- SafeSearch: Remove explicit results. Learn more about SafeSearch.
- File type: Find images in a specific format, like JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, SVG, WEBP, ICO, or RAW.
- Usage rights: Find images that have license info attached to them.like Creative commons license, Commercial & other license
clip art剪贴画（计算机程序或网站中供用户复制自用的图像和符号）
pictures and symbols that are stored in computer programs or on websites for computer users to copy and add to their own documents
ready-made pieces of computerized graphic art that can be used to decorate a document
Advanced Video Search
Try these filters
- Language: Find videos in a specific language.
- Duration: Find videos that are 0–4 minutes, 4–20 minutes, or more than 20 minutes.
- Posting date: Find videos posted or updated within a specific time period, like within the past hour, day, week, month, or year.
- Quality: Limit results to HD videos.
- Site or domain: Search one site like youtube.com. Or, limit your results to a domain like .edu, .org, or .gov.
- Subtitles: Find videos with closed captions.
SafeSearch: Remove explicit results.
Advanced Book Search
Try these filters
- Search: Choose what to include in your search, like:
Books with a limited preview or full view available.
Books with a full view available only.
Google eBooks only. - Content: Limit results to a specific type, like books, magazines, or newspapers.
- Language: Find books written in a specific language.
- Title: Enter the title of a book.
- Author: Find books written by a certain author.
- Publisher: Limit results to a certain publisher.
- Subject: Find books about a specific topic.
- Publication date: Limit results to books published between specific dates.
- ISBN: Find a book by its International Standard Book Number (ISBN).
- ISSN: Find a book by its International Standard Serial Number (ISSN).
View web pages cached in Google Search Results
Cached links show you what a web page looked like the last time Google visited it.
Google Search Console is a web service by Google which allows webmasters to check indexing status, search queries, crawling errors and optimize visibility of their websites.
Important: If you use Search Console for your webpage, use the URL Inspection Tool for debugging.
About cached links
Google takes a snapshot of each web page as a backup in case the current page isn’t available. These pages then become part of Google’s cache. If you click a link that says “Cached,” you’ll see the version of the site that Google stored.
If the website you’re trying to visit is slow or not responding, you can use the cached link instead.
How to get to a cached link
On your computer, do a Google search for the page you want to find.
In search results, next to the site’s URL, click down arrow Down arrow or More and then Cached.
To go to the live page, at the top, click current page.
Tip: If there’s a cached page that you need removed from Google Search results,
Search for the topic in other ways
If you don’t find the info you want, search for a topic in different ways to get a wide range of helpful info. Some things you might consider:
- Start with a general search, then get more specific.
- Use neutral terms. For example, search cats as pets instead of are cats good pets.
- Use “About this result” to check which of your search terms show up in each result (for example, “cats” and “good” versus “cats” and “bad”).
- Try different search terms.
- If you try multiple searches on a topic and don’t get many relevant results, the topic may be too new or may not have much written about it. You may need to wait and search again later.
- Explore results from multiple sources, not just the top result.