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PhenixRising
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Joined: 07/11/2023
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 1595
Posted: 02:35pm 08 Aug 2025
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  Quote  Try these tricks to find anything on the web:
1. filetype:
Example: filetype:pdf "budget planner template"
What it does: Returns only PDF files, so you can quickly find printable, ready-to-use budget planners without digging through blog posts or ads.
2. site:
Example: site:nasa.gov "moon cheese recipe"
What it does: Restricts Google to one domain (here, nasa.gov), so results come only from NASA pages ideal when you want the space agency’s “official” take on edible lunar cuisine.
3. Minus sign -
Example: DIY night-vision goggles -kids -accidents
What it does: Excludes any page containing the banned words. You still get night-vision tutorials, but results mentioning kids or accidents vanish.
4. OR (all caps)
Example: "bank blueprint" OR "vault schematics" download
What it does: Returns pages that include either phrase. One query covers two very different Saturday projects without running separate searches.
5. Wildcard * inside quotes
Example: "the * will hear about this"
What it does: The asterisk stands in for exactly one unknown word, so Google fills the blank with every possible option handy when you half-remember a quote.
6. before: / after:
Example: celebrity disappeared after:1997 before:1999
What it does: Shows results published within the specified date window. Ideal for researching a narrow historical period without modern clickbait.
7. AROUND(n)
"unmarked van" AROUND(4) surveillance
What it does: Finds pages where the two phrases appear within n words of each other, ensuring the concepts are closely linked rather than randomly scattered.
8. intitle:
Example: intitle:"world domination checklist"
What it does: Requires the words to appear in the page title, surfacing documents that practically shout their purpose.
9. Numeric range ..
Example: used submarine $20000..$30000 for sale
What it does: Filters results to numbers inside your chosen span useful for prices, years, measurements, or any data with upper-and-lower bounds.
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lizby
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Joined: 17/05/2016
Location: United States
Posts: 3446
Posted: 03:00pm 08 Aug 2025
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Very valuable. I only knew of a few of these.
PicoMite, Armmite F4, SensorKits, MMBasic Hardware, Games, etc. on fruitoftheshed
 
tgerbic
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Joined: 25/07/2019
Location: United States
Posts: 87
Posted: 11:29pm 08 Aug 2025
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Really useful. Now if I could get Amazon search to be this useful.

Thanks
 
Bleep
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Joined: 09/01/2022
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 667
Posted: 08:21am 09 Aug 2025
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Use Google, but limit it to amazon.com?
2. site:
Example: site:nasa.gov "moon cheese recipe"
What it does: Restricts Google to one domain (here, nasa.gov), so results come only from NASA pages ideal when you want the space agency’s “official” take on edible lunar cuisine.
 
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