Questions tagged [google-search]
Search engine owned and developed by Google
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Navigate Google search results with keyboard
It takes way too many tab presses to reach to the search results. Long back, Google had a nice keyboard navigation for search results (Google Instant). Why did Google turn the keyboard navigation off ...
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Get all emails from google advanced search result
I am trying to get all possible email from Google search result. I have been using this site:vconnect.com "@gmail.com" OR "@hotmail.com" which shows list of all hotmail and gmail ...
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Searching key words by topic
I'm wondering if it's possible to search some key words in a specific context. For example, I'd like to search the key words 'programmi portabili' in the computer science context. How can I do it?
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Google page: fancy letters
I used to see a fancy google page with various modifications of image-like letters but
now I see an ordinary google page WHY? On what this depends? :
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Google for the exact phrase (and no, quotation marks don't help)
Simple question. How can I google for the exact phrase match?
Making a simple google of this, it says "use quotation marks".
Well I did that just now. I searched for this: "accuracy map&...
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How to exlude/filter out country/region/language from search results?
Any better method then for exmp.: -hindi that exclude only if word in title or description?
More specifically for YouTube.
As well found this from one of the answers:
https://developers.google.com/...
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How can I search for files with a specific extension and some file size range in Google?
Is it possible to searching for files with a specific extension and some file size range in Google?
I know that one can search for files with a specific extension with the keyword filetype, e.g.: ...
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How do I return results in Google search that MUST contain a specific word?
In Google web search, when I search for:
+ortho4xp +image +compression
I receive one relevant site result containing the 3 words, followed by 6 results ridiculously telling me "Missing: +...
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Few of my google search results redirect to the same (or similar?) spam site
This is not really a problem at the moment, but I am asking because I am trying to find out if this is something worth looking into
I do all my searches in chrome. I have not been able to test this in ...
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How to search keywords, filtered by - most popular, in (x) years/months on YouTube or Google search?
How to search YouTube (or via search engine like Google to reach YouTube) keywords, filtered by - most popular, in (x) years/months?
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Can I filter Google results to two specific domains rather than just one at a time? [duplicate]
I often search Google for programming-related questions I have, and rely heavily on the site:stackoverflow.com filter to restrict results to Stack Overflow posts, for example. In some cases, like ...
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Searching only bmp file - Google
I'd like to search only bmp file in google; to do this i used for example the string:
filetype:bmp keyboard arrow
but it doesn't find anything. How can i search only bmp file on google?
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How to avoid sharing location to Google?
When I make a search on Google, the results are sometimes in my native language and the websites listed are from my country. That being even if my query is in English. At the bottom of the page, I can ...
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How can I search for websites excluding the path using Google-search
I am looking for a Google search operator pattern that searches for links without a path attached/query.
I have been looking around the internet, looking into google search operators, trying out ...
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How do I do a search for a phrase at the end of a sentence on Google Books?
I am trying to search for a string of words on Google Books and restrict the search results to sentence endings. For example, I would to search for "is the best." as the end of a sentence. ...
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Does Google have an || (or)? Particularly for searching particular sites?
Say I wanted to search site:wordpress.com site:livejournal.com gelato. Doesn't work, because it tries to && those results instead of ||ing them. Say I want to do this for a number of sites ...
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How can I add bookmarks to Google Collections from desktop browser?
This page says that (for some inexplicable reason) you can only add images and job searches (though they forgot to mention that you can save map locations from as well) from a desktop browser to your ...
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How to disable Google search results in Russian language?
My region is Ukraine so it is not a "mistake" that there are some relevant search results in Russian. However, can I filter out any results in Russian language anyway?
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Chrome custom search engine - help to make it work on some sites
Can someone help me with a problem I'm having? Setting up custom bookmarks just doesn't seem to work on some sites.
I for example want one for playstationtrophies.org and it doesn't display search ...
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How to reduce a google search URL to an anonymized version
If I enter a search term in DuckDuckGo I get a pretty simple url and query string
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=python+tips&atb=v1-1&ia=videos&iax=web
If I do the same in google I get a ...
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Make Google search results link directly to linked page
Google search results usually link to google.com/url with a bunch of gibberish.
How can I make them link directly to the result?
I'd like a solution that works for both Chrome and Firefox
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Google search Site with wildcard in its URL and multiple intexts
There is a website that has many images in the following style:
https://www.website.nl/app/uploads/Image1.jpg
https://www.website.nl/app/uploads/Image2.jpg
https://www.website.nl/app/uploads/Image3....
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How to avoid seeing bottom two bars at google.com, the ones that say “United Kingdom” and “Advertising” etc.?
When I browse to google.com I get a bar at the bottom saying "United Kingdom" and another saying "Advertising" "Business", "How Search Works", "Privacy", "Terms", "Settings". How can I avoid seeing ...
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Is there a way to use Google, to get results from the past? [duplicate]
In other words, is there a way to exclude results from after a certain date in Google, or in some other web browser?
Use case: a recent film with a one-word, common-dictionary-word title and a big ...
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Why Google showing featured snippets in german language?
There is an issue while using google search engine. My language preference is set to english and google is giving me the first result in the German language. May I ask please what is the issue of such ...
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Why did my Google search results suddenly change to have boxes around them?
Boxes around my Google search results only appear when I'm logged into my Google account. They appear regardless of my browser and I can't figure out how to get rid of them
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Where do the new images in Google search definitions come from?
I often look words up quickly using Google Search. For example, I might search define:belligerent to quickly get a definition, check my spelling, or find synonyms.
Today, for the first time, I ...
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Why is google results behaving strangely?
I search something on google i get the result.
But after one second the result changes to
This happens every time, for all the results.
What is this strange behaviour? I want the previous result ...
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Google Search and user display name
I made a google search of my full name to see results related to my name on the web using chrome. I had some YouTube videos results and wondered how these videos are chosen to appear on results. ...
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Does case:yes make Google Search case-sensitive?
I'm not duplicating this because it's from 2010 and doesn't mention case:yes. Enabling case-sensitive searches | Code Search | Google Developers
But case:yes "unclear is if" didn't work?
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Difference Google Operator OR vs () [duplicate]
By studying the definiton of OR and () in google search engine, a question come up to my mind:
Given two websites, how to find the results containing the word "operators" and "use" for both websites:
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Stop people suggestions from Chrome search
Recently, Google Chrome has been suggesting things like this:
I would like to turn off these people (and other entity) suggestions. I want the suggestions back to the way they were last month with ...
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Google search changing “++” from search box to “ ” [duplicate]
I'm trying to search for __gcd implementation in c++17. But google is automatically changing it to __gcd implementation in c 17 and results are apparently from C programming language and not from C++....
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Possible to search for URLs containing a substring on Google Search?
Is it possible to search for URLs containing a substring, for example I'd like to find all URLs that have the ".gov.sg" string in it.
E.g.:
silverscheme.gov.sg
Also, can I restrict all the URLs to ...
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Is there an URL to jump straight to the timer in Google/Chrome?
If you enter "5 minute timer" in the Chrome search bar, it leads to a Google Search page topped by a countdown timer, ticking down from 5 minutes.
Handy.
Is there a formal URL to just get this ...
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Google search date from or date after?
I would like to return results only before or after a certain date.
I read here that it's simply to use before:YYYY-MM-DD
But when I try, e.g. corona before:2020-02-30, I see most results are from ...
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How to schedule reviewing Google search results and manage their manual analysis?
When I have a big research project, I need to do Google searches about it and review many search results. For example, I open 30 search results in new tabs and review them.
How can I schedule ...
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Are Chrome 'Other search engines' synced when logged into Google?
Are Chrome 'Other search engines' synced across devices when a user is logged into their Google account?
See: chrome://settings/searchEngines > Other search engines
Exploring the data that is ...
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Google search for my full name showing irrelevant results - how to remove?
When I search my full name (very unique), and scroll down all the way to the bottom of the 1st page, it shows links to 2 prisoner's information in the county that I live in, but I'm not affiliated ...
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Why does Google search return less results when using | (OR) operator?
I was doing some search on Google Scholar and I typed in
MPC | "model predictive control"
this search entry returned around 1.72 million results. Then I typed in
MPC | "model predictive control" | ...
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How do you update google image/search results?
I have noticed that some websites like Instagram and ask.fm, google does not update their search results.
For example if i have an instagram username like "Qwerty" then i type Qwerty into google (...
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How to have Google show the number of results in book search
Searching on Google (All) gives the number of results:
Searching on Google Books does not:
Is there a way to have Google show the number of results in Books search?
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How do I find all fantasy novels that have won The Otherwise Award?
I've used wikipedia 3.4 Searching for pages in categories to search within Category:James Tiptree Jr. Award-winning works - Wikipedia and also added the keyword fantasy. However this brings up some ...
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How can I make Chrome/Google search on my google data?
Google has a lot of places where you can store your data. Drive, Keep, Tasks, Calendar, Gmail, etc.
Sometimes I write a note in Google Keep, sometimes I make a Task, sometimes I make a document on ...
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How can I show people with their location on Google Maps?
I am running a Job portal website, I collect User's information including their latitude and longitude, I basically want them to be searchable on Google Maps from the information they provide to my ...
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How can I avoid Google's redirection notice, when feeling lucky?
Since a few months, Google's previous "I'm feeling lucky" URLs, e.g.,
http://www.google.com/search?q=stackoverflow&btnI
(taken from this answer), have all begun pointing to "Redirection ...
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How to Stop Translating System Menu/Result/Option/Attributes in regional language
This is the issue
This image might help anyone understand better
Browser - Chrome Version 79.0.3945.88 (Official Build) (64-bit)
OS - MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6
What i have tried so far -
In MacOS ...
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How to only get results containing exact matches of my search terms on google?
I'm trying to search for results related to my research technique called "Hi-C". My current search term is "T cell" +"Hi-C" the plus sign and quoting should force an exact search, but still many pages ...
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Facebook page still showing
My account is deactivated but my Facebook page is still showing on Google Search. Could you kindly remove the page permanently?
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Integrated Google, Gmail, Google Docs, Calendar Search
I swear there was a point where Google would at least occasionally return matches to my personal data, e.g., the contents of a personal Gmail message. Was this really the case at one point? Was it ...
