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What does “I'm feeling lucky” button do?
I am using Google many years, but I still don't know what does "I'm feeling lucky" button,
and why it's placed there. Explain me .
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1answer
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Searching google videos of a particular size
Is it possible to search videos on http://google.com with different parameters like size in MB, GB or resolution or file type etc. Just like we have for Images.
Is it possible to apply some query ...
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0answers
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Is there an option to display “offensive” search suggestions in Google Search?
I've noticed that typing certain Google Search queries results in the "Press Enter to search" dialog being shown. Some words that I type, including the beginnings of "offensive" words, do not show any ...
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1answer
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Force Google Search to do absolutely exact match
Is there a way to do a real exact match in Google?
Quotes or plus do not make it exact.
I'm trying to search for the phrase "offset 0", but the results contain "offset: 0", which is not the same and ...
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3answers
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Reverting to the classic Google cache link in search results via userscript
I would like to ask if it is possible to bring back the "Cached" link in Google search results (back next to the result title).
So does anyone know of (or if it's possible to make) an extension or ...
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0answers
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Getting the real destination link from google search [duplicate]
Steps to reproduce:
Search for "wavetek4.pdf" via Google search: wavetek4.pdf.
Look in the entry. Right mouse click on the link and it goes to Google. Not to the real site.
Click on Share button ...
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0answers
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Where can I see all the synonyms Google used to expand my search?
e.g, if I search 'flue virus' by bolded terms, I see that the flue was expanded to also search for influenza. Where can I see my complete query (expanded)?
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9answers
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How can I search for a keyword with special characters in Google Search?
I want to search for what += means, but Google won't return any documents.
Also when I come across some PHP code I don't understand I can't search for the keywords as written.
How can I search for ...
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0answers
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Combine “google cache search” with “google I’m Feeling Lucky”
This get the cached page of a site
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:[your site]
This get the first site of a google search results aka I’m Feeling Lucky
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2answers
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How to modify a URL to get a Google cached version of page?
I want to look at a Google cached version of a webpage, but can't find it through the usual mechanisms, as per this related question.
Is there a way to modify the URL in the address bar to take me to ...
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0answers
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Show only distinct results matching keyword in Google Image Search, no duplicates
Is there a way to search Google Images for distinct images matching a keyword? It's annoying to search something and get dozens of versions of the same thing.
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1answer
445 views
How to search in specific website but not its sub sections?
For example:
I want to search for web hosting in domain css-tricks.com. So I will do this:
site:css-tricks.com web hosting
But that site has a forum section at http://css-tricks.com/forums/. I ...
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3answers
101 views
Can we teach Google Search sites that we prefer?
I know we can teach Google which sites we want blocked, but is there a way to let it know what sites we prefer.
For example, when I search for a movie title I would rather Rotten Tomatoes to come up ...
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0answers
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Google.com doesn't show “change location”
Google.com:
http://i.imgur.com/iVlZng0.png
Google.ca: http://i.imgur.com/GwlY6zW.png
I am a Canadian user. The same thing happens in incognito mode. Anyone have any ideas?
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6answers
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Setting Google results to stay in a language, regardless of location
How do I keep the Google search results in English regardless of where I am searching from? Google is a genius at knowing what ads to show me and what particular language to show me the ads.
If I ...
3
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1answer
182 views
Is it possible to stop Google Search from censoring search suggestions?
I've noticed that some search suggestions (such as "The Pirate Bay", and various "swear words") are now being censored, i.e., not appearing in search suggestions despite being popular queries. Is ...
2
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2answers
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Where can I find related Google searches for a given search query?
I've noticed that Google (and some other search engines, such as Bing) display related search results under a "People also search for" heading. Is it possible to view a complete list of related Google ...
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3answers
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Access Google Search tools faster
A feature in the google search I use often is the specification of the search area (in my case Switzerland) to find a product in my country.
But since some days this so important feature has been ...
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4answers
1k views
Is there a new way to remove sites from Google search results?
A while ago I got fed up with continuously finding w3schools in my search results when I wanted detailed, technically correct information.
To fix this without having to continuously append ...
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1answer
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I want to see a page dated in Dec 2012, how to I do it?
This is Google's cache of http://www.seab.gov.sg/. It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on 15 Jan 2013 05:31:28 GMT. The current page could have changed in the meantime.
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3answers
3k views
How to get a random number from Google omnisearch textbox?
I'm aware that the google.com omnisearch textbox is capable of doing maths.
However, is it capable of giving me a random number? (I'm too lazy to roll a dice.)
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1answer
373 views
How can one send multiple word OR queries to Google?
I am trying to send Google a search query with several units, some containing more than one word, separated by the boolean operator OR. Usually I'd write:
(Oneword, Two words, Something containing ...
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2answers
464 views
Google Search with Regular Expressions [duplicate]
Is it possible to use regular expressions or very simple regular expressions in google search?
Like search the term "goog?e", where the ? indicates a character or a number.
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1answer
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Google search results from the past 2 hours [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to do a Google search for webpages last updated within 2 years?
The only option Google offers is to get results from the past hour. Is it possible to get results ...
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1answer
251 views
How can I search with wildcard on Google Search?
I want to search URLs like this:
"blablabla.com/a1234568"
"blablabla.com/a8564654"
"blablabla.com/a5648979"
So as you can see I want to make a search like this blablabla.com/a*
But I can't do ...
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2answers
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Google is not giving me proper results for “intitle” searches
I'm doing some research on certain demographics on a certain site and basically, because there's no API I can tie into with these sites, I'm forced to do something like this:
...
2
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2answers
281 views
Filter Google search results to keyword appearing in subdomain or domain itself
While I'm aware that an allindomain operator doesn't exist, I'm wondering if anyone knows a way to achieve this with allinurl or similar in Google Search.
allinurl: returns results containing the ...
2
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1answer
43 views
Google search to give day given date
I often want a day given a date. Is there a quick Google query that will immediately give me the calendar day given a date, in the same way that I get an immediate result for the queries 23*35 and ...
3
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1answer
88 views
Can I cause a Google web search to take a long time?
Doing a Google search is normally very fast, despite the fact that the web has probably millions of terabytes of data, due to the fact that Google employs algorithms (like indexing) which allow for ...
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5answers
919 views
Any way to prevent certain websites from displaying in Google search results? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a way to remove sites permanently from (my personal) google search results?
The website www.bigresource.com is completely useless but highly optimized for ...
3
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2answers
1k views
Automatic search tool that used a link? Google or Bing [closed]
I remember there was a version of Google or Bing that you could input a search query, hit enter, and get the link for that, and send it to someone, and they could watch the query type itself out and ...
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3answers
358 views
Can I teach Google that when I say “Java”, I mean “Java 6”?
I use Google a lot to look for Java documentation.
Example: If I want to find documentation for HashMap, I just google Java hashmap and Google knows to redirect me to the javadoc page.
However, it ...
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4answers
2k views
Is there a way to make Google search results default to “Past Year”?
Mostly self-explanatory... Every time I perform a Google search I would like it to display results using the "Past Year" option from the "More Search Tools" menu on the left by default.
My main ...
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2answers
3k views
How often was this term googled?
Is there a way to find out how many times a certain term has been searched for in a certain timeframe?
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2answers
146 views
How can I avoid sites that scrape and republish others?
Usually I use Google for search. Over the last few months most of the top search results I get are for sites that only seem to exist to scrape others. For example these ones scrape Microsoft's forums: ...
2
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5answers
318 views
blacklisting parasite websites that copy stackoverflow [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a way to remove sites permanently from (my personal) Google search results?
How can you configure a browser, and the search agent - e.g. google - that it uses, ...
2
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1answer
166 views
How to search a string which includes “$” in Google [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I search for a keyword with special characters in Google Search?
I want to search this string in Google
'IPC$'
But Google always removes the $, even if I try to ...
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3answers
2k views
Search animated pics with Google
Is there a way to search for animated GIFs or PNGs with Google? (Not static GIF or PNG files, but animated files.) I’ve tried with apng but Google does not recognize that filetype and trims it.
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1answer
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Is there any online software which search my dropbox, google drive and internet in same time?
I collect very useful information on text files and stored them in my google drive. with probability of 70% my technical search will find in my directory.
Now I'm looking for a way to search this two ...
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1answer
157 views
How to make some websites appear higher on Google?
I often google for programming related stuff, and whenever there's an article on a few sites I enjoy reading such as the developer.mozilla.org, I would like to have them at the top of the search ...
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1answer
126 views
Find number in Google with wildcards
I want to find a number that starts with "221" and is an 11 digit number.
For example: 221XXXXXXXX
Does Google support any method to find something like this? Perhaps with regex or wildcards?
4
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2answers
158 views
Is it possible to see on which Google result page a website is?
I was just wondering whether or not it is possible to obtain information about the rank of a website for a given search term on Google, or on which page it is.
E.g. if you search for 'computer' ...
5
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4answers
187 views
Google “latest” or realtime search of Twitter statuses
Some time ago there was an advanced type of Google search, accessible via left panel (more search tools and time period limiting). The results of latest was almost realtime, and there was an ...
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0answers
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How can I google words starting with something containig special characters? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to search the internet for terms with special characters
I need to find all emails like quote@a-car-insurance-company.co.uk to send my details for quotation. How can ...
5
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2answers
3k views
It looks like Google is saving my search history and tying them to my account. How do I turn this off now?
For a long time, when you would be logged in via something like Gmail or even a straight "Google Account", you could go into the privacy/advanced settings and turn on something to save your search ...
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1answer
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When performing a Google search, sometimes the results show results for a different search term
I'm using Firefox 5 on a Mac. When I perform a Google search, now that the results auto-update, the results will auto-update while I type as it's supposed to whenever I search for something. However, ...
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1answer
986 views
How do I find something in Google cache?
Here's a scenario. Someone I don't fully trust posts on a forum that he saw some interesting materials in some specific Twitter account tweets and cites those materials.
I want to be sure that ...
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3answers
7k views
How to open Google Cached version of a URL
I have a URL http://raw.fotosite.pl/ which seems broken. I want to view its cached version if cached by Google/any other web caching site.
In Google advanced search is there any special ...
10
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1answer
521 views
How do I restrict Google search site operator by excluding subdomains?
Let's say I ran the following query in Google's web search:
site:"superuser.com" "windows 7"
This will return results on the blog.superuser.com subdomain.
How can I restrict results to only be ...
5
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1answer
979 views
How to search similar sites with Google?
One addition to Firefox provides button to search similar sites with Google, not pages. I've forgotten its name and I can't look at its query.
So how can I search similar sites with Google?
