Search engine owned and developed by Google
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Shortcut to Google Images, News, More
I'd like to know if there is a shortcut to go to Google Images, Images, More... A way to navigate between this options.
Like you can go trough the results with the UP/DOWN arrows, I don´t know if ...
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Are GitHub sources parsed by Search Engines?
I used Github search which is good though sometimes I like to use Google's parameters for better search handling of what I want.
site:github.com foreach
Unfortunately for the first few pages, I am ...
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I deleted an account off of a website and it still shows up in Google searches?
Well pretty much I had two accounts that I really wanted to delete from 2 websites because they were embarrassing . I deleted both of them but whenever I search my name up on Google both of the ...
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How do I block results for particular words in my Google Custom Search Engine?
I am aware of how to remove websites from search results in my Google custom search engine *(either by using the control panel or uploading annotations in an xml file under 'advanced')... but how to I ...
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Similar queries give different results in google alerts. The culprit is the query or the delivery system?
We are building a system to analyze the results of Google Alerts for certain medical topics.
We are testing two different methods. Let's take the topics pregnancy and vaccines in Italian. Our ...
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How does Google handle special characters?
According to Google Basic search help
Generally, most punctuation and special characters are ignored, however there is a growing list of punctuation and symbols that are recognized in searches.
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Russian language results in Google and Bing UK search results
I have found that both google.co.uk and bing.co.uk are favouring Russian language websites in their search results for certain keywords, even when language preferences are set to English and when only ...
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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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Google: what language is chr, and why is my homepage set there?
For reasons I can't fathom, my Google searches keep ending up at http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=chr. What language is 'chr' (I don't why I can't find this by searching Google, but I can't)? More ...
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Google Search—set search language
When I'm searching on Google, I usually use English. But sometimes I need results in a specific language only (Czech).
So I checked it in settings:
But when I want to search, I now have only two ...
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How to get rid of captcha prompted by Google (while searching)?
I am a programmer and I Google a lot.
The problem.
The thing is that it seems that Google finds my search requests fishy (often related to security and compile errors, something casual users won't ...
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How to search an embedded Google Spreadsheet in Google Sites?
I would like to know how I can make embedded spreadsheets searchable in Google Sites.
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How to search the web for JavaScript using Google, or other crawler?
I know you can search Google for specific filetypes, so you can do filetype:js someCode
However, Google doesn't seem to index JavaScript, or at least these results just seem to be HTML pages with a ...
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Searching for populations of a list of cities
I want to create a list of all world cities named "Alexandria", along with their populations. Can a search engine do that? What could the query look like?
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How to search something on across multiple sites with a single Google query?
I tried
(search term site:stackoverflow.com) OR (search term site:superuser.com) OR (search term site:stackexchange.com)
search term site:stackoverflow.com,superuser.com,stackexchange.com
search ...
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Search “keyword” among all the pages linked to X site?
This is the main page of something I want to perform search on. Towards the bottom there are many links to other resources (External References). How do I search for the keyword "radio" among all of ...
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Is there preference settings so Google stops favoring recent news?
Doug Saunders ask, on Twitter,
Is there a way to turn off Google's recent-news precedence so it strictly searches by backlink count, as it used to do?
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Google Search Operator: Does “-nofollow” exclude websites where links are nofollow?
I've seen someone using search operator -nofollow to find websites where links are dofollow and he claimed that this query can exclude websites whose HTML source code contains nofollow.
Well, ...
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Is Google search site:yoursite.com result count a good indicator of Google's indexing and does it really mean anything in SEO terms? [migrated]
I'm not sure this is the best stack site for this question. But it does have to do with Google search functionality so I think it is justifiable to ask here. If I'm wrong, please let me know.
My boss ...
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Google search for “my ip” shows incorrect IPv6 address instead of correct IPv4 address
Google says my IP address is something like this (I've changed it just in case there is anything personally identifiable in it).
Your public IP address is 2602:306:78c5:6a40:421e:6813:d55:ce7f
...
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1answer
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Google Search: Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network.
I frequently the below message when using Google search:
Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network.
This page checks to see if it's really you sending the requests, ...
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Make a Google+ post visible to all users but invisible to Google search
I know that the Public circle is like a free-for-all and people can find your posts for the Public circle using search engines. I'd like my posts to be visible to only G+ users.
How do I set my posts ...
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1answer
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Does Google use Gmail to discover new links?
I've just read an article (source - it's German, I'm sorry) which reports that Microsoft uses Skype to discover new websites (probably for Bing).
I know that Google makes use of Gmail to generate ...
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Use search engine to list all possible values of an field?
Is there a way to use google search (or other SE) to list all possible values in a given category of an online catalog (where each object is a web page)? The optimal result would be a list of unique ...
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Find deep links to our site with Google Search
We are in the process of moving to a different provider, and I want to check which popular deep links go to our site. I have some server logs, but I want to cross-check with Google. I do know
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Search my gmail account for emails form specific email address
I have a gmail acocunt where as I can send and recieve my emails via my own person email address aka. myname@myemailid.com. This all works fine. But backed up in my 10 odd year old gmail account I had ...
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How to Google search for void*
I was trying to search for
void*
but instead of results I get
To continue, please type the characters below:
and a CAPTCHA with an explanation saying
About this page
Our systems have ...
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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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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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Service that shows most popular queries/keywords related to a specific topic X? [closed]
I know Google Trends/Zeitgeist. But what I'm looking for is a service where you can enter, for example "Politics", and then the service gives out the most popular queries containing "Politics"-keyword ...
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Is there a way to remove sites permanently from (my personal) Google search results?
I'm regularly finding sites that copy content from elsewhere (mailing lists, etc) while not providing any added value. Quite to the contrary, they are pretty heaped with ads.
I'd like to remove those ...
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Searching for Google Maps direction by query
When I want to get directions between two well-known places, I enter a query like "from Heaven to Hell" into Google, then switch to Maps tab and the route is there (provided that Heaven and Hell are ...
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Why does Google Search use redirects instead of direct links?
All Google Search results are a redirect link like this: ...
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How to exclude a domain from Google search?
I would like to do a search query and filter out all results from www.foo.com. How do I do that?
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How can I filter Google search results that aren't relevant to a specific topic?
Does Google Search offer any option to filter search results that aren't relevant to a specific topic? I already know that it's possible to filter out specific words and phrases using the - character, ...
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How do I google the Thai name of Bangkok in Chrome?
I tried doing a google search for the Thai name of Bangkok
กรุงเทพ มหานคร อมรรัตนโกสินทร์ มหินทรายุธยามหาดิลกภพ นพรัตน์ราชธานี
บุรีรมย์อุดมราชนิเวศน์มหาสถาน อมรพิมานอวตารสถิต
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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 search for words with the same suffix on Google? [duplicate]
I thought it was possible by using the asterisk but that returns no result.
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How to get Google Search to index a Google Group? [duplicate]
We've migrated from a Nabble-index mailinglist to Google Groups last March.
Unfortunately Google Search (and Bing) doesn't seem to index our group*, are there any settings I can check that might be ...
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2answers
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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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1answer
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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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1answer
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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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How do I turn off Google Suggest permanently?
There used to be an option for turning Google Suggest off permanently, but since Google Instant was launched it appears to be gone. A temporary solution is to open
...
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Change Google search language to English [duplicate]
I live in Brazil and Google search always comes with Brazilian versions of the websites I am searching for. How can i get only the English versions. My language is set to english
It is using my IP ...
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Does Google still offer data on hourly search volume?
If I'm remembering correctly, Google used to offer search volume by the hour here: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=pope&date=today%207-d&cmpt=q
Now, the lowest I can seem to go is 7 ...
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Force Google search to use only the exact words typed, no spellcheck or synonyms
How can I force Google search to use only the exact words (not entire phrase) I typed and not to use spell check and similar words/synonyms?
Here is a query I performed in Google search:
Mayavi ...
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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 should I write the URL for a specific Google Search query?
Whenever I type a search query in Google Search, I am presented with long and complicated URLs like this one:
...
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Can I have Google search results always filtered?
Is there a way to have Google search results always filtered? I am constantly clicking on "only show results from the past year" and I would like to make this default.
