Questions tagged [google-search]
Search engine owned and developed by Google
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How to search for all outbound links of a particular website?
I want to search for all outgoing links with the URL https://github.com from this link https://whatevery1says.github.io/we1s-templates/creating-a-project/. I can do that with Outbound Links Checker ...
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Why am I seeing two versions of Google Search page? [closed]
Why am I seeing two versions of Google Search?
Original Version:
Alternate Version:
The latter one is showing up occasionally.
Is this because of a virus or something?
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How to make google voice search British? [closed]
I'm talking to google "search by voice" with british accent and it's write it all wrong! what should I do to make it into British?
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How to get the current time in UTC?
Searching for "current time UTC" gives a backward answer.
That is, in AEST timezone (UTC+10), it instead responds with the answer that would have been correct if the local timezone had ...
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Filter Google search results for keyword, but only if keyword isn't part of pattern
How can I search Google for a keyword such that the result will show "results containing keyword, but not when found next to a given word".
For example: I want all results which contain &...
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Why is it that I get google search results for word definitions in 2 different languages?
This has been a recent problem I am facing when I search for a word w/ Google. I am getting my search results in 2 different languages- English and Tamil.
I'm not sure why this is occurring and I've ...
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Knowing (rightaway) when google search result is based on previous search
It used to be that at the bottom of the webpage, one can see it written, whether the search results are independent or based on your previous activity / search history.
It is the case (it seems) that ...
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Disabling the Google suggestions which appear below the website I clicked on
Since some days ago Google changed its way to show search's results; in particular, when you do a research, you get a list of websites:
If I click on a website and then I go back to the webpage of ...
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Why Google doesn't recognise "chatgpt" as a searchable term?
Google must be well aware of "ChatGPT" developed by OpenAI by now after issuing a code red.
However when I made a below simple search, it offered an auto correction as "chatbot" in ...
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Google's inurl option isn't working for this website
If I do inurl:yahoo and search that, then yahoo comes up. So the inurl tag seems like it maybe works.
But it does't work for this website https://www.solubilityofthings.com/
i.e. if I do inurl:...
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Why do Google results have a globe icon? [closed]
I am using Windows 11 and recently started to see a globe icon on Google results.
If I log out of my Google Account there are no globe icons,
But when I login again, the globe icons show up again..
I ...
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Google `site` operator: is it possible to list more than one URL?
When I want to limit search results on Google, I need to use the site operator multiple times, like this:
-site:gov.br -site:ebc.com.br -site:sintep.org.br -site:sinteal.org.br -site:cnte.org.br
It ...
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How to make Google default to local currency?
Is there a way to prevent Google search from assuming you are inputting foreign currencies? (Not sure if this is a problem with chrome, or the website itself.)
The expected answer here is $120. ...
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Change Google geolocation
I'm in Greece, using Wind Hellas as ISP.
For some reason, I have two public IPs, one in Athens (Greece) and another in Tel Aviv (Israel).
When I'm using google.com, it consistently selects the Israel ...
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How can I fix the Google Search tabs in a custom order?
This is the well-known top bar of the google.com Google Search results page:
I regularly click on a wrong tab because I am used to certain positions of the tabs, and would like to have the Shopping ...
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Why don't I find any expected results when google-searching with search terms that start with dashes?
Background: When I try to google search something like "gcc -Wall" (for example,) to find documentation on the -Wall flag's meaning for GCC, it looks like I get the same search results as if ...
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How to automatically change the "rad" mode to "deg" mode on google calculator when searching an equation?
So, I know that there is a button to change "rad" to "deg" on the google calculator, but it is not what I meant.
You can write your equation directly on the search bar and then get ...
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Disable Google Doodle games
My kid needs to do homework on PC (Windows + Chrome).
However he keeps getting distracted by Google Doodle games. I would like to disable / block these games. A simple solution like "change this ...
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Is there a way to access Google News stories from a particular date?
I want to read news stories that were published on a particular date like say 15th October, 2022.
Google News provides an easy way for us to see all the news articles at a single place.However, I am ...
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How can I access the customized links from the Google app on my computer? [closed]
I have the Google app on my iOS device, which shows customized links on the home screen along with the Google search bar like the one below.
How do I access the same page on the web (PC)?
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How to search for exact phrases that include quotation marks [duplicate]
I want to search for: Putin "wins" presidential election
I am looking for a site which uses quotes as sarcasm, but I cannot search for phrases that include quotes, since they will be turned ...
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How to exclude academic papers?
When I use Google to learn about technology, for example, "locale sensitive hashing in image retrieval", it turns up lots of academic paper results that are too complicated for me as a ...
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How to get a list of all subdomains of a website?
I'd like to, using Google Search, get a complete list of all the blog URLs that are hosted under specific domains. You know, like "[blog].wordpress.com", "[blog].blogspot.[any]" &...
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Google Site not getting indexed due to Page Redirect
I have created a website using Google Sites. I have published using a custom domain (https://www.abilityalpha.com). It is not getting indexed by Google Search because of "Page Redirect" ...
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How to search only on blogs?
I'd like to search for some terms only on blogs.
How to do this on Google Search?
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Searching words starting with a specific letter on google? [duplicate]
I want to search for words starting with a specific letter in the same order. Is there any operator in google-dorks through which I can apply wild operations on letters instead of words?
Example: ...
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Is there a search engine that does not forward the query to Google?
This is a search engine privacy question.
Imagine a scenario where a person wants to check if some sensitive fact about him/her is easily found with a web based search engine. For example, let us say ...
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How to search for an exact phrase in Google search?
In the 2020s, with Google using machine learning and other fancy stuff to find search results, how can I search for an exact phrase, and only that exact phrase, in Google search?
I'm aware that ...
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How to find the oldest reference to a term on the Web?
Now that "Sort by date" was retired in Google Search (except for news), how can I find the oldest reference to a term on the Web?
I also tried DuckDuckGo, and couldn't find an option to ...
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How can I remove "Top stories" from Google search results?
When I search Google eg for "Russia", I get a box of news results on top:
Is there any setting or Chrome extension that can remove them?
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How to exclude all terms except one word in title when searching YouTube or Google?
That is, how to find one-word-titled webpages in Google search results or in YouTube search results. For example, when searching YouTube for the word ‘verb’, I want only videos with the word ‘verb’ as ...
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Disable Google's "Did you mean"
Is there a way to disable Google's "Did you mean: ..."?
Background:
When I search for something similar to a known word, I often can not find many relevant results.
Example: There is an ...
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Filter Google Scholar Results to show only Journal Articles
How can I filter my Google Scholar results to show only journal articles please? I would like to exclude conference papers, workshops and so on, which tend to be (or are seen as) not so carefully ...
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Any way to order Google search results by recency with descending date order?
As an example, I'll use "laughing cats" as the search term for "site:youtube.com". I'd like to sort or "order" the results by descending date (oldest to newest).
Here's ...
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Google Search doesn't show "More results from <domain>"
It used to be that if a search results in many results from a website then a link would be displayed to show More results from <domain>
For instance when you search for "ukraine conflict&...
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How to know when a page was (first) indexed by Google?
I see that Google has already indexed a page.
However, I cannot find when Google indexed a page.
How to know when a page was (first) indexed by Google?
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Search websites whose urls contain a specific word
I'm wondering if it's possible to search all the websites whose url contains a specific word.
Example: I'd like to search all the websites with the word ".uni??" in their url ("?" ...
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Why are my search results in Google missing the descriptions?
I have been dealing with this problem for 2 days now, when I search for something the Google search results are showing, but the descriptions or snippets that normally appear below are missing, so I ...
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Is it possible to assign search priorities in Google for specific websites?
Is it possible to prioritize Google search to show my favorite sites first? Basically I would like some sites, for example superuser.com, to display first in the search results instead of sixth, ...
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How can I copy the URL of a PDF file from Google search results? [duplicate]
I ran a Google search and I want to get the URL of the second result:
But it is a link to a PDF. If I click it, I get the PDF, but not the URL (so I cannot save it in my bookmarks or send it to a ...
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How to block 'people also ask' in Google Search
There's a very similar question here:
How to stop Google's "people also search for"
But I'm not familiar with urls or code and am generally very inept. While I've tried the element ...
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In specific search terms in Google, if you use `-site:` and there's a result with "Must Include", it will include the dashes
I have the search query harvard wifi dns -site:pinterest.com -site:githubmemory.com -site:numerade.com -site:coursehero.com -site:chegg.com -site:scribd.com. However, in one of the results, I get this ...
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Google is no longer honoring exact search phrases
I have relied on exact search term (" ") compliance with Google for years. It is no longer working.
The search "solubility of hydrogenated vegetable oil in DMSO" returns 27,800 ...
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Adding content to Google knowledge panel
I recently verified my Google knowledge panel. As I am not a celebrity, the panel has very little info (only title and education). There is a help article on how to update the knowledge panel, but ...
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Is there a way to exclude video results from Google Search? [duplicate]
Sometimes I am specifically looking for a written tutorial on a subject (in a blog format, etc), but all I can find are video tutorials in Google Search results. This is especially frustrating when I'...
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Language to restrict a web search query to only search company websites
I was wondering if there was a way to limit a Google web search query to only return company websites or to search an "about" page of a webpage?
For example, if I'm trying to find a company ...
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Google search with tbm=map downloads something
I was learning about making HTML form which will start Google search on submit and I found out something. When you put tbm=map in the search URL, it downloads something which looks like JSON data.
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Google Search Results in text format
I am searching for all pdfs from a specific site using the Google Dork "site:resosir.com filetype:pdf". How can I make a text file with all pdf links from the search result, one in each line?...
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When you refine a search with a 'site:' operator, Google shows results from all the indexed pages from the website that you specified
https://www.google.com/search?q=study+PHYSICS+site%3Aedu+-jiwaji&biw=1695&bih=1079&tbs=qdr%3Ad&tbm=nws&ei=Yoa6YdHgC-qfptQP4se20AY&ved=0ahUKEwjRmZ-...
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Searching for larger versions of a smaller image on Google Image Search
Search on Google Images doesn't seem to work anymore [see this screen clip]. Any solutions?
My Objective: To search larger versions of a smaller image.
Google Support Thread