Search engine owned and developed by Google
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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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Exclude number range in Google Search
I would like to exclude search results containing numbers in a specific range. My best search term so far was:
foo -1950..2009
Google, however seems to ignore the minus sign and return results with ...
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Google: exclude a certain page from search [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to exclude a domain from Google search?
I sthere a way, when I'm using Google search to construct the query such that it will not show me the results from a certain ...
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Pressing Backspace in Google Search doesn't go back one page
Using Google Instant with autocomplete turned on, I'm unable to press the backspace button to go back to the previous page. When I press the backspace button, I do not have focus in the search input ...
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How to use a wildcard in the middle of an URL when querying a site-specific search in Google?
I commonly use the Google wildcard asterisk (*) term. One of my favorites uses is searching with
site:*.edu
But I recently tried
site:csu*.edu
in order to search California State University ...
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How do I get pages marked +1 in Google search results to rise to the top?
I've noticed that pages where I have marked with +1 have "You +1'd this" in Google search results.
However, it doesn't seem to affect the order of results, or there may be very small differences I ...
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Does LinkedIn access my cookies and Google search history for its suggestions? [closed]
LinkedIn seems to suggest people I may know. I believe, or it's my hypothesis, that LinkedIn scours information located in the cookie files on my computer and in some way accesses the information that ...
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Report Google web search results that contain offensive images
In Google Image Search, it's possible to report individual offensive images. How can I report web pages (or entire websites) that contain offensive images? These pages occasionally show up in search ...
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How can I reduce/ remove YouTube results in Google search?
I've noticed YouTube videos getting a lot of 'love' from Google in recent searches. This is actually quite annoying. One recent search yielded 10 unrelated videos on page one!
Is it possible to ...
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Returning date in Google search results
Sometimes when I search for articles on the net, I would like to see the year of the article to see if it's relevant for my search. Is it possible to return that in the search result of Google search ...
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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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Set Google SafeSearch by location/browser
My preferred browser is Chrome and I'm firmly in the Google camp.
When I'm at work I would rather have my SafeSearch settings be set to "Strict", just in case some of my random searches catch on ...
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Blocking all about.com websites (*.about.com) from my Google search results
I regularly block websites from my Google search results. I've had no trouble with this Google feature, with the notable exception of about.com. This website uses a million subdomains, making it hard ...
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Is there a way to specify more precise site category in Google Search?
Is there a Google Search feature to show results from a very specific category?
For example, show only results from software company websites, or social networking websites, etc. I am aware of a few ...
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Is there a way to keep Google search settings when logged-in with the Google account?
I have three computers, where I use three different browsers in each computer. I sometimes have to re-change the settings for Google search, even if I am logged-in with my Google account.
Is there a ...
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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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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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Search Pinboard and Google at the same time
Is there a way to search pinboard when I search google? Evernote has that kind of functionality.
EDIT:
The search functionality I'm looking for is the parallel search functionality that the evernote ...
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Google seach query without omitting similar results
Many times google omits search results which are similar (you can click on the last results page to show the omitted ones). How can I query google search without omitting the similar?
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How can I do a Google search about github without getting results from public repositories?
I tried to search a private code base on github for a string that included a [*. It gave me a pretty 500 error page so I jumped over to Google and searched for "github search special characters". ...
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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 ...
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Exclude results from Google Search where keywords are in link titles instead of content
How can I make Google search exclude link titles from showing up as matching when I want the keywords to match on page content?
For example, I want to find out how I can use the Kendo UI grid ...
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Is it possible to search for a specific HTML tag within a site using a search engine?
I want to search a single website for pages that do or do not have a canonical URL specified (<link rel='canonical' href='http://www.site.com/pageCannonicalUrl.htm' />). Is it possible to do ...
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How do I search for keywords in Google Docs, and see the results with context?
I have many documents stored on Google Docs as text or spreadsheets.
In many of them I put little "todo: something notes"
I would like to search though them and see a list somewhere
Is that ...
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Disable the huge first result display when it shows sitelinks in Google Search
How can I disable this huge first result from displaying when I run a search in Google? It shows on big sites, CNN, BBC, etc.
I'm using Google Chrome, is there a way to hide or disable the site ...
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Longer google autocomplete lists?
Is it possible to have more items in the Google autocomplete suggestions as you type?
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What do these Google search operators/attributes mean?
In the Google Chrome search engines, there is the default engine URL defined as: ...
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How to get Google Currency Converter back
This is the currency converter and today I am not getting it on https://www.google.com/search?complete=0&q=1+usd+in+aed . Also I am getting a Search sidebar which I haven't seen for a long while ...
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Why does a search term with an ampersand get truncated? [closed]
Go to Google Image Search and put this in the search criteria (remove the double quotes and make sure there is a trailing space):
"d&d animated series "
Search gets truncated to "D". Why?
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Is it possible to turn off dependence of search terms (operator) order in Google search?
I used 4 search terms in a Google search in different order (no search operator at all, only terms) and get 220000 vs. 250000 results and different sites in top 30 search results.
It's not tragic, ...
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How to increase the Google search results to display more than 100 results?
I’m trying to save all the URLs of my website that are indexed in Google, so I want to increase the displayed search results to more than 100.
Is it possible? And if yes, how?
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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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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, ...
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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 ...
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Exclude Google results containing search term in title?
I'm searching Google and wish to limit results to ones that contain my search term in the page body but NOT the page title. Is this possible?
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How to show Google's word definition
If you type certain words in Google search, for example loquacious, Google will show some kind of dictionary definition for it, as well as how to spell the word. But for other words the word ...
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Search for multiple unrelated words in Google Search
Google used to have the "+" operator, but I believe they removed it.
I want to search for Q&A sites using the following query:
what language is * written in? + c++
However, in the top ...
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Do Google Search URLs contain sensitive (private) details?
I noticed that if I'm logged into Google Account (my Gmail and everything) and do a search in the address bar, the URL of the resultant page is really long.
Now, I was wondering: is there any ...
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How to search CSS / JavaScript files with Google?
Is there a way to find CSS / JavaScript files that contain certain keywords:
in the title ?
in the code ?
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How to customize URL search conditions on Google
I want to be able to tell Google
if [some string] is in the URL, don't include as a search result
For example:
If I want to do a search for "popcorn", the first thing that comes up as a result ...
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1answer
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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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2answers
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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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How can I make Google Search default for all words with “allintext:”?
There is a hidden search option for Google to search for all words on the result page:
allintext:. (See: http://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/1095/27469)
Is there a possibility to add this option to ...
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1answer
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Searching Google for files and pages which contain .something
I am doing some security research, and am wanting to search Google for hidden files that have been accidentally included in websites.
These hidden Unix files are all ".filename" and ...
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Activating Google's “block results from this site” when you need it
Google search occasionally shows a "block results from this site" option but I am not sure when/why. I tend to always be logged in to my Gmail/Google account and like that it can personalize based on ...
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How to search ftp in Google?
I used to be able to do Advanced Search on Google, and search by 'type' (can't remember what they called it). It enabled me to choose between http and ftp and probably others.
I need to search ftp ...
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Why doesn't Google Instant work for me?
Even though I have signed in, cleared all cache/cookies Google Instant still doesn't work for me. How can it be fixed?
[Edit]
The URL I use is www.google.com.vn.
I see the dropdown keyword ...
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How to force Google to use a keyword? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Search for multiple unrelated words in Google Search
I've noticed recently that Google force-feeds me certain results even if I explicitly demand that a particular ...
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How can I make Google do one-shot searches in a specific language only?
When I use Google to search the web, I usually get German results first and English results later when I use search terms that make sense in both languages. Since I am German and live in Germany, this ...
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Search Google Images for minimum 640x480 size by default
I generally search for images using Google Image Search and after any search, I select the minimum size as 640x480 from the left pane of the page.
Is there any way to set a minimum size for Google ...
