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Google Instant Keyboard Navigation stopped working
I just noticed that the keyboard navigation stopped working for me in Google Chrome. I tried to re-activate Google Instant and to re-login, but that didn't solve it. How can I reactivate it? Or do you ...
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How do we access the previous versions of Google caches?
How do we access the "earlier caches" of Google?
For example, the website http://www.onemillionpeople.com/ is current down for maintenance.
When I access the Google's web cache, it still shows ...
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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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Forced words in Google search query are being ignored, plus no longer working as explicit inclusion
How do I force including a word in Google search if the plus (+) operator doesn't work anymore?
Here's an example search.
+("os x" OR "osx") +temperature +(console OR "command line")
I expected ...
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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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685 views
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 ...
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Google search without any filter?
Google filters results by your preferences, but also by other factors such as your exact location, popularity, and others that I am not aware of (see this TED talk).
So I was wondering, is there an ...
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How do I link my Google Profile to my blog?
Google search results show a link to the Google Profile for the author of appropriate search results, how do I ask Google to do this for the content I've created?
I have a necessary parts (blog + ...
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Switch off drag and drop feature of Google image search
How do I turn off Google's drag and drop image-based search feature?
When you go to the Google Image search engine, people can drop a picture into the search box and the results of the search will be ...
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1answer
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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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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?
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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 ...
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How to get Google search to stop trying to fix my spelling?
For example, I'm searching for pages that contain the word "quiet". Google.com is happily returning hits with "quite" (and even showing them in bold!), even though that word obviously has nothing to ...
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How to do a Google search for webpages last updated within 2 years?
How to do a Google search for webpages last updated within 2 years ?
In other words I would like Google, but I do not wish any of the results to be over 2 years old.
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1answer
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+1 a website in Google search results using the keyboard
How do I +1 a website I see in Google search using the keyboard?
I love the use of arrow keys to navigate the search results and would like to +1 the websites I like. I don't want to move away from ...
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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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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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How do I search for businesses in a specific area on Google and sort by rating?
I'm having a heck of a time figuring out which of Google's properties will allow me to do this seemingly simple search:
I want a list of businesses in a specific area, sorted by customer rating.
For ...
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Find class schedules near our location
How can we find class schedules nearby? In this case our location is New York.
Some of my friends, graduates of science major (biology, math, physics), are looking for classes that teach web ...
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Different results from Google Chrome and Internet Explorer using Google
When I search for .NET related questions on Google Chrome using Google, it does not display results from MSDN.
When I do the same search from Internet Explorer I get results from MSDN.
I clear out ...
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1answer
80 views
“These terms only appear in links pointing to this page”
Sometimes when searching for something in Google, after clicking a result's cache, some keywords are said to "only appear in links pointing to this page". I was wondering how to find out these ...
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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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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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Inappropriate URL for POST search to Google
I'm trying to search Google via POST rather than GET, but so far am getting the error:
The request method POST is inappropriate for the URL/search
But which URL is it?
This isn't for a ...
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anyway to customise google search such that whenever we click on a link it will automatically create a new tab
Is there a way to set up our google page such that whenever we click on a link it will automatically create a new tab instead of navigating to that page?
I'm aware that I can press the Ctrl + click, ...
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How do I change my Google search location? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I access google.com outside the US?
Is there a way to tell Google to speak to me in English, instead of German?
When searching google by using the Chrome (12.0 ...
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1answer
367 views
How to change black Google bar back to white?
Today, the Google Apps bar went to black. How do you change it back to white?
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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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What is the real number of results in Google Images Search
Google Image Search
Anyone know why when I search images in Google Image Search, in this example, the input is "Google", it says there are about 872.000.000 results. Then some images are thumnailed ...
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Does Google log your search to your Google account?
When I go google.com and do a search while being logged in to my Gmail account (or Google account). does Google log that search to that specific account or will it only log that search to the ...
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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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Disable Google +1 functionality
How do I disable Google +1 functionality from appearing in my searches?
I want to remove "+1" icon from Google Search results, is there way to do so?
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How to restrict a Google search to results of a specific language?
How can I restrict the results of a Google search to only a specific language? Is there an operator like language:english?
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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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Keyboard shortcut to access the first link in a Google search page?
What is the keyboard shortcut to access the first result in a Google search page?
Any "hacks" would be fine, as long as it does not require the mouse.
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O Google, where art thou Linux special search?
Google Linux search has disappeared. Were there any announcements by Google regarding it?
google.com/linux was a Linux specific search, part of a set of Special Searches along with UncleSam and BSD. ...
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How to get Google definition search in other languages?
The previous version of Google's definition: search, showed some language options, so I could lookup the definition of a term in other languages. But since they updated it, I can't find those options ...
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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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Limit a Google search to history only
In Google, I want to seach for words "rungs" "lunar module" but I want to search only the pages I have visited in the last 7 days.
Does anyone know how to do this?
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How to get Google search results in a simpler format?
Google search requires a JS enabled web browser to display the results. But I want a simple XML or JSON format, so my app can parse it.
I looked into Web Search API but it is deprecated. I looked ...
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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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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 ...
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2answers
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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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Why on the first page google says there are thousands of results but on the last page there are less than a hundred?
Why on the first page google says there are thousands of results but on the last page there are less than a hundred?
That's kind of a recursive google search that should be self explanatory. It did ...
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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 ...
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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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Copy raw link found by Google search, not the one with extra redirect added
In Firefox, after searching for some keyword in Google and getting a list of results, I would like to copy the link address of a particular result. But I find that the link address is not the actual ...
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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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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' ...
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Can one use any search engine in order to find a set of keywords on a site (not page)?
The problem I'm trying to solve is that I'd like to buy a set of products online (FYI: Topeak F25, F66, F55, iPhone DryBag, and ProPack Small).
For convenience, and to save on shipping costs, I'd ...
