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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

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!

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Gift Egwuenu

Thanks Chris.

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Espoir Murhabazi

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

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Gift Egwuenu

Thanks Espoir!

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Christine Pinto

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.

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Christian Gröber

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.

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Gift Egwuenu

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

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Erik Vårdal Itland

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.)

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Gift Egwuenu

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

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Ryan Connolly • Edited

Great, I broke google :(

Great, I broke google

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Gift Egwuenu

Haha this is hilarious 😆

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kidkkr

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!

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Gift Egwuenu • 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.

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Mark Roeling

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

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Elie Vangu • 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 😊

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adesunloye Adeola

Nice article and well written!

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Gift Egwuenu

Thanks!

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Matheus Dias Vieira

This is amazing, thanks for sharing!

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Silvija Prozinger

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 😃

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Gift Egwuenu

Thanks :)

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Sarah Chima

Great tips Gift!!! Thanks for sharing.

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Gift Egwuenu

Thanks Sarah.

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Victor Ayodeji Ogundola

Great read. Thanks for the tips.

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Ebenezer Oladutemu • Edited

I read this on your blog. Couldn't agree more! Totally good read. Thanks Gift

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Adetunji Adegbite

Nice article. I have been using some of this tips not even knowing they officially exist. Now time to research.

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Vikram Sahu

That's awesome. I just tried site and intext one
Loved it!

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Gift Egwuenu • Edited

Awesome! Thanks glad you found them helpful.