Questions tagged [google-search]
Search engine owned and developed by Google
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Does search engines like Google or Bing search through all web pages for a single query every time?
Here is what I imagine would happen when I type in a search query in Google or Bing:
The search query is converted into a vector through some pre-trained machine learning models. The vector captures ...
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How to prevent Google Search Calculator from converting all Units?
Does the Google Search Calculator Have any settings, URL arguments, or anything of that nature to control how it functions? I really like how it works in most areas, but it continually converts all of ...
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What is the best way to search a video with specific song in it on youtube?
Under any Youtube video there is a description of music/songs under it. What is the best way to search a Youtube video based on that song? I can search it by the name of that song in Google search but ...
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Where did the “internet speed test” go?
If I Google
Internet speed test
Google should offer me a quick internet speed test box as the first result. I could test my internet speed without leaving the Google search page. Now, this box is ...
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Why is clicking on a Google search result sending me to a different page than just typing in the same URL?
I was trying to track down the website of a local nonprofit, so I typed its name into Google. The first result showed the organization's actual domain name, but the description was spam, and clicking ...
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Is it possible to filter Google search results on response headers?
Is there any way to tell Google "give me all the results that contain some response header/value X?
For example, I would like to search for content on a topic, but only include results that have the ...
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Company and products dropped from Google search engine?
3/1/2019
We have had our company name, website address link and popular product name on the Google search engine for years. Whatever people typed in about our company or products it automatically ...
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How can I make google give me only top-level page results?
I would like to do a keyword search but with only top-level pages as result.
For example, I want https://superuser.com as a hit but not https://superuser.com/questions/230975/ on my search.
Only ...
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Google search data
I went today through the process of deleting my entire data history from Google's servers. I went to myactivity and browsed through EACH TAB and clicked DELETE ALL ACTIVITY. I even went through ...
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Reset Google Search layout
I'm using Chrome on a Mac and all of a sudden my Google search layout switched back to its old interface with a black bar on top.
I've tried logging out and logging in my account, cleared all ...
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How to know how many times i have visited a website?
I use google to make research online.
I dont want to collect data from the same websiye twice so i want google to tell me if it is the first time i am visiting the website or not.
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Is there a way to use Google's advanced search parameters without triggering the CAPTCHA test?
When using Googles advanced search operators, I only ever get about three or four tries before I start getting harassed by these perpetual reCAPTCHA turing tests:
Yes, I'm human. No, I'm not a robot. ...
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How to fix a broken Google search?
I think this is related to broken Google search at How do I tell Google my search terms are requirements and not mere suggestions?. I think this question is a particular case of the general problem.
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Google Search results - old style
Recently, I have noticed Google changed the search layout on mobiles. One example is that the links are now smaller than before. Is it possible to revert to the old style? Finding this a bit jarring.
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Google reverse image search in a specific country
I want to use Google to search for a specific image inside a specific country (IP)!
Using http://images.google.com/ gives me results for all sites, but I can't sort results by country. It would also ...
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How does one search a picture online?
If one has a picture file, like .jpg, how does one search (maybe Google) if this picture is around online?
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Only include search results that must exclude multiple words
Consider this search:
rick's haven -bbq -barbeque -menu
I am trying to find all results related to Rick's Haven as it relates to the movie Bird Box. However, there is a really famous BBQ restaurant ...
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How to remove videos from Google Search results
I want to remove unwanted videos from Google Search results. When I search for my site in Google, the search shows some unwanted videos. How do I remove them?
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Recovering my Google account with out a recovery email or phone number [duplicate]
Someone hacked my password and changed it. I have been using the same password for years and I need help getting my account back. You said you would email me back but I have not received any response ...
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How to disable sticky search bar in Google search portal?
Google recently introduced a sticky search bar that, as the name suggests, sticks to the page on top of it when the user scrolls. Here's how it looks on scrolling down:
I find sticky top bars ...
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How to block Wikipedia from Google's Search Results? [duplicate]
I have installed the Personal Blocklist but it does not work. I have spent hours searching online but I cannot find how to automatically do it. Most sites state manually change the search result with ...
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If I click on a link in a Google cached page, can I directly go to the cached version of the link?
My school uses GoGuardian and blocked.com-default.ws to block websites.
And as you could see in the screenshot, I was trying to open https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-io/getting-started
I ...
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Search engine for everything illegal, weird, immoral, anti-social and/or anti-government
I have been a Google user since time immemorial. However, recently, Google seems to filtering results based on its version of acceptable behaviour.
For example, I want to be able to search for these ...
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Is there a way I can search some info in Google from Google Sheets?
I have a Google Sheet that contains information of companies and names, and I would like to have their job position. Is there a way I can look for it in Google without doing it manually?
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Get final redirected link from Google's “I'm feeling lucky” function
I need to write a Google App Script function that takes the redirected link from Google's "I feeling lucky" button.
The function should take:
http://www.google.com/search?q="stackoverflow"&btnI
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Is there a keyword to search for Google results within the last x days/weeks/months/years?
Is there a keyword (see this) to search for results within the last x days/weeks/months/years?
I know that you can do this by adding code at the end of the search URL, e.g. for results dating no more ...
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Redirect Google search to YouTube in one click
I don't really know if I'm in the right place to ask the question, and I apologize for my poor English.
At the time, Google had this thing called black bar, some liked it, some didn't like it, some ...
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Unverified Twitter accounts in Google Knowledge Graph panels?
It appears that Google is showing unverified Twitter profiles in their Google Knowledge Graph panels in Google Search.
As an example search Gabe Newell, which shows an unverified Twitter account on ...
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How do you use VLOOKUP with vertically merged columns (merging that span rows)?
Let's say I have a table like this, where B is vertically merged for A=1 and A=2
A | B
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1 f
2 o
3
4 b
5 a
6 r
How can I look up the value of B, for A=3? The way I see it, A=2 and ...
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Advanced search and “I'm feeling lucky”?
I want to perform a slightly advanced search and automatically go to the first hit on Google (= the same function as I'm feeling lucky). Is that possible?
Something like
site:abc.com keyword
and ...
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Syntax to for phrase match whilst excluding domains for search results
I'm trying to search Google for:
"Alpha Beta" + "Charlie Delta" -excluding(pinterest.com), -excluding(facebook.com)
What I'm trying to achieve here is to find results that contain the phrase "Alpha ...
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Can I add an event to Google Calendar from Google Search?
If I need to set a reminder, I can just google "Remind me to get laundry in 1 hour" and it will prompt me with the option to add it to my Google Calendar:
Is there a similar trick for adding an event ...
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Google search still shows obsolete webpage
There's a webpage that was just updated a week ago. But now I can still google what was present in that webpage before it was updated, and Google says that result/webpage was from 2 months ago. I ...
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Where to find a list of Google search operators?
I heard once that there are some search keywords or operators that google could use to enhance the search results. One of them was "NEAR"...
Say if I search
"make" NEAR "great again"
it would ...
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What are the hiddent buttons in Google Search?
I accidentally press Tab several times in my browser and find out the three hidden buttons right under the logo:
Is this a bug? If not, how to access it by mouse?
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How do I tell Google my search terms are requirements and not mere suggestions?
I've noticed Google is ignoring some of my search terms. It has been happening for a while but I can't recall when it started. For example, below I am trying to find processor specs for a MIPS I-class ...
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How long do removal requests stay on the “Remove outdated content” page?
I noticed that only my most recent removal requests are visible on Google Search Console's Remove outdated content" page, even though I've made plenty of requests. How long do requests last after they ...
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Get 14-day-old data from Google cache
I need to get from a Google cache a web page, but at the moment I can find only last version (one day ago).
I know that Google keeps 14 days of history.
Is possible get all two weeks page history ...
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How to search to find a video NOT in YouTube?
I want search some videos that are NOT listed in YouTube. I tried -YouTube, but it does not return any results.
How I can do that?
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Force Google to return mathematical results in decimal notation
When the result of a mathematical equation entered into Google is a large enough value, Google returns it in scientific E-notation by default:
Is it possible to set Google to return these results in ...
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Search Google by year
I would like to know how I can tell Google to only show results from a specific year. I know many of the Google queries like site:example.com but I don't know how to Google by year as in e.g. year:...
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Searching for a name when missing some chars of it
I was wondering if there existed a way to search for the name of somebody when some letters of its name were missing. For instance, let's say we know the profession of somebody but only have the first ...
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How can I merge multiple Google searches
How can I combine all of these searches into one and get all the results from one search?
Search 01: [keyword] site:docs.google.com/document/d
Search 02: [keyword] -inurl:(htm|html|php|pls|txt) ...
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What Does Google Alerts “only the best results” versus “all results” mean?
What Does Google Alerts "only the best results" versus "all results" mean? Does it filter out obvious spam, or does it hide lower quality results (that could be the needle in the haystack)? Or does it ...
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Assistance needed for a google search of posts in a specified forum
This is my first post and I am hoping someone can help me out with my google search inquiry.
I am trying to search for a particular user’s post in a specified sub-forum that has generated 20 likes or ...
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How to exclude references to songs/films in Google search results?
For example, i type in a phrase "times are getting harder" in Google search bar and expect to find some essays/articles about how the times are getting harder economically, etc., but all the search ...
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How to make Google Search change preferred language by host without changing config?
For example, sometimes I want to search by a Japanese keyword and get Japanese results (Japanese websites). To do this, I go to https://www.google.co.jp and search. However, it always returns English ...
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Search the web for a long hyphen “–” but exclude items with a short hyphen “-”
I would like to search for a word that is preceded by a long hyphen "–" (U+2013 : EN DASH ) such as
–format
but exclude items that have short/normal/minus hyphen "-": (U+002D : HYPHEN-MINUS):
-...
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How to change Google translate default language in search results?
When I google "translate", it brings up a little mini-translation app at the top of the search results. Frustratingly, though, for some reason it defaults to Hindi->English, which is not something I ...
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Google Search language settings keep resetting
On a Google search results page, I go to Settings -> Languages and set desired language preferences.
However, on the next day language setting reset to what seems to be regional defaults.
I'm always ...
