Questions tagged [google-search]
Search engine owned and developed by Google
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How to go to the Google last result?
When I search on Google, the statistical estimate is wrong (e.g. 33600 results for the sentence "scala di lunghezza d'onda", instead the actual number is 23; 1190 results for the sentence &...
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Seeking Advice: Improving Google Indexing for Company Search Website [migrated]
We're currently facing a challenge with our company search website (companies.creditreports.dk/en) tailored for the Danish market, and I'm seeking advice for this.
The website's company pages are mass-...
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What do the ~50 search results of an "empty" Google search have in common? [closed]
If you google a space, you get a very weird assortment of 40-50 search results. What exactly is shown varies a bit, but I usually get the Wikipedia home page (in the , Wikipedia pages for some special ...
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Once I had an option, on Google Search Result page, to translate the result to my laguage (Hebrew). it is gone. can I resturn it? it was helpfull
In the search result, for almost every result, there was a small link which opened a new tab with the result already translated to Hebrew. It helped me a lot. I would like very much to return this ...
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Google search result pages no longer show number of matchings? [duplicate]
Google search result pages no longer show number of matchings? I used to use that as a hint to how popular/regular a word combination is compared to its variants.
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All links for switching to Maps are missing from Google Search results [duplicate]
Problem with Google Search
When I perform a search at www.google.com while logged in to my profile, the results are now missing the normal Google product links I would see at the top of the page ...
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How can I search Google for number ranges that use the M and K number abbreviation?
My goal is to search Google for instagram profiles that have a certain amount of followers. Filtering down to profiles only is easy but the hard part is making google understand the number ...
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What search operator will limit search results to content in a specific language? [duplicate]
I'm using Google Search and want to limit results to pages written in a language I specify.
There is a similar question How to restrict a Google search to results of a specific language? that has this ...
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How to get rid of Mathway, GeoGebra, QuickMath, and Symbolab stuff?
When I Google search "arccos(-14/sqrt(30*68))=" (or any similar calculation), I just want Google to give me the number.
But instead Google first shows me this useless stuff from Mathway, ...
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Where does Google search get its ICC cricket world cup live commentary from? [closed]
In the recently being held ICC cricket world cup 2023, the Google search also has the option to display live cricket world cup commentary as shown below (source):
I tried to search many different ...
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how do i search for a specific path amongst all websites?
in google, i know i can search specific contents of a site by going site:example.com
I want to search the whole world, but for specific paths. for example,
site:*.com/CustomPath
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anysite.com/...
Ahmed Can Unbay
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Is there a way to look for specific websites based on the author?
I'm trying to find a way to search for pages that are built by the same author/ company.
I'm currently using google to look for specific websites for research. So far I managed to do a work around a ...
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Google Videos Search "sca_esv" query parameter possible tracking
When I search for something on Google and then go to Videos tab, I get a URL like
https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=569877865&q=tester&tbm=vid&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=...
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How to prevent Google from showing any local results and ads?
Alternative question:
Is worldwide Google search (NCR) still available?
If Google is used from an internet segment with excessive SEO (for example, during travel), English queries will often be mixed ...
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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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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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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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