Google Verbatim Search
Use "Verbatim Search" to search exactly what you wrote.
It turns off personal results, spelling suggestions, and other automatic Google changes.
Google Advanced Search
Go to Settings to get to "Advanced Search."
Use "quotes" in a basic search or the advanced search box in the below image to keep all of the terms together.
Note: This is a good trick for searching for names, books or article titles!
Use the term OR in your basic search or the advanced search box in the image below to search for websites with either term or phrase.
Use the - sign in the basic search or the advanced search box in the image below to search for websites without a term or phrase.
Use "site:" in basic search or the advanced search box in the image below to search sites or domains.
Note: This is particularly useful if you want to search all government websites (site:.gov), educational sites (site:.edu) or think tanks and other organizations (site:.org)! Or only websites in a specific country (site:.ru for Russia, for example).
There are other search engine options
- Duck Duck GoDuck Duck Go is a search engine that does not track searches and does not keep your search data. This means it does not do personalized searching.
- Start PageStart Page pays to use Google's results, but does not collect data on your searches. Neither your results or your ads are determined by past searches.
- Million ShortMillion Short lets you search deeper in the web. You can cut the top hundred, thousand, ten thousand, one hundred thousand, or one million websites out of your search completely.
- Wolfram AlphaEver wanted to know how many red panda lifespans can fit into the average human lifespan? Wolfram Alpha is your search engine for numbers, basic data, and quick computations.
- ZanranZanran helps you search for data and statistics freely available online.
- Wayback MachineThe Wayback Machine is a tool to help you search for websites as they used to look. It is good for finding websites that are now defunct or comparing changes over time.
