Questions tagged [google-search]
Search engine owned and developed by Google
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Google top 100 words searched for
Is there any way to see the list of top words searched for on Google? I'm looking for a range of somewhere like 100-500 words.
The problem with Google Hot Trends/Searches and Google Zeitgeist is that ...
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Wildcard character search in Google, but for individual letters?
For instance, I would like to search on a website "3XX lessons". I know that Google allows "XXX lessons" with "* lessons", but how do you use the wildcard symbol for individual characters in a string?
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Prioritise Japanese characters over Chinese equivalent characters in English version of Google?
Here is the dilemma. I am using Windows and do not want to change the system UI to Japanese (which is more difficult to read than English), but I want to read Japanese search results.
The problem is, ...
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How do I tell Google that I prefer Python3 results?
Google is supposed to learn what results I want. However, it continually produces the Python 2 documentation when I'm searching. Obviously it's only another click or two, or I could type "3" in 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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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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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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How to stop google.com from showing recent search drop-down list?
When I place my cursor in the search box at google.com, it displays a drop-down list of recent searches.
I want to disable this behavior because the recent search suggestions are irrelevant to me.
I ...
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Google Search History - linking across multiple accounts?
Does Google link searches across multiple accounts? For example, if I signed out of my account, then searched Google, would Google log the fact it was likely the accountholder of the account just ...
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How-to make Google Search not cut off topic with an ellipsis?
I have a modern monitor from today's century, with a resolution more than 640x480 pixels. Yes seriously! =) Anyways, for some reason I have failed to understand, Google Search cut off the topic with ...
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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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Is it possible to turn off dependence of search terms (operator) order in Google search?
I used 4 search terms in a Google search in different order (no search operator at all, only terms) and get 220000 vs. 250000 results and different sites in top 30 search results.
It's not tragic, ...
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Is there a way to search for HTML tables on a website in Google?
I'm an accessibility expert. When auditing a website, I'm usually (among many other things) try to find some tables that don't meet the requirements (e.g. missing th elements in data tables).
As it ...
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Find web page(s) that links to a specific page in Google Search
I got an article from some page, I don't know which. Is there some Google search way of finding the parent page?
Say for example from page A I navigated to page B. Page B is a PDF document. How to ...
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What is the current url format for Google Image searches?
I use a program called Cold Turkey on my laptop that blocks specific URLs, and until recently, I was able to block all google image searches as they shared part of their url. Now, however, it seems ...
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While browsing some websites, interface words changes to non-understandable letters
This problem is mainly faced while browsing or searching for research papers on many websites. Some website names are in their regular language, but the content of the web page is changed to ...
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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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My Google Calendar will be listed in Google Search?
To subscribe a Google Calendar e.g. in the Mac Calendar App, you have to create a public link to that Google Calendar.
The link obviously has to be publicly available, since you subscribe without a ...
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Disable "Press `/` to jump to the search box" in Google
Recently I've been getting the message on the bottom left on Google whenever I press Ctrl + L to put focus the omnibar ("Press / to jump to the search box").
While the animation only ...
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Google search for multiple countries/region/area?
Is it possible to search Google for multiple locations at the same time, for example the African continent, or multiple countries.
There is the possibility to do it for a single location. gl=sa in the ...
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How to modify my store information on Google search?
I have recently made a blog for my store, and I want to link it to my physical store, which is already registered on Google Maps. My desired result is that my store would go up in search ranking on ...
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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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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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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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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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Google search takes too long when logged in to Google account
Recently I've been experiencing very long loading times when searching in Google. On average around 4-5 seconds, however it has always been under 1 second.
This happens only when I'm logged in to my ...
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Advanced Search in only URLs matching a certain string
I want to search in all GitHub sub-pages containing the word "ja.po", like this page:
https://github.com/xfce-mirror/thunar/blob/master/po/ja.po?fbclid=...
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How to filter Google search results by rating?
Some websites have ratings which will be displayed in Google search results.
My question is: is there a way to filter the search result based on the webpage's ratings? For example, rated 3.5 or ...
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How do I remove these kinds of results from my Google searches?
These kinds of results are really annoying to see as they're in pure white.
I'm using stylish to style the rest of the Google page but I can't figure out to style this portion so I'm resorting to try ...
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Google search thinks I'm a robot
Why does Google think I'm a robot?
It happens to me pretty much lately.
I haven't changed anything in my searching behavior - I press Ctrl+L / Ctrl+E to go to the search bar and type something I ...
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Google Search is always grouping stackoverflow results. How to disable?
Since the beginning of this year, I think, Google Search started to group any programming-related search results from stackoverflow:
Due to this I can't see all stackoverflow results on the first ...
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Search for articles of a particular length
I would like to only search for articles that are, say, over 3000 words. Is there a way to do this with Google or another general-purpose search engine?
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How to do the Google search operator in a specific date range?
To set the search result only in a date range, I can add the search operators with the keyword:
stackoverflow daterange:2016-01-01..2016-12-31
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stackoverflow daterange:2457389-2457735
However, ...
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Where can I find documentation on Google's search options that show up in the url address?
By adding certain code terms to a Google search, one can control certain options about the result.
For instance, "encrypted.google.com/search?&hl=en&q=TEST" searches for "TEST" in the English ...
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Google Voice Search: Multiple languages in desktop search?
The Google application on my iOS device allows me to search both in English and in foreign languages, at the same time. In other words, I just start speaking, and it will recognize the language.
It ...
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How to have keyboard shortcuts in Google Search not skip over results?
Using Firefox 36; I look up this query in Google Search, with Javascript enabled for google.com:
https://www.google.com/search?q=something&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=something+pdf
Then I click on ...
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"More results from" (same domain) on Bing
On Google Search, if a search returns multiple results from the same site (e.g., forum sites, Super User...), you get a "More results from..." at the bottom to basically redo the original search with ...
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How do you search "[email protected]" in Google?
How do you search an email address with dot inside, such as "[email protected]", in Google?
When I search it with double quotation marks surrounded, the dots "." are always omitted. Any way out?
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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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Searching for results within a date range from search bar
I know we can specify a date range for the Google search results by clicking in Search Tools and changing Any time to the dates we want. Is it possible to do the same directly from the search bar ...
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Exclude ".NET" from a Google search for "Microsoft Net Server"
I'm trying to do some research on a product that I believe may have existed quite some time ago called Microsoft Net Server (cf. this article from 2000) which was apparently some sort of file server ...
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Are Google search date filters timezone-specific?
When filtering for Google search results specific to one date as shown below, are the results based on the timezone associated with your IP?
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Cached web page no more available on Google
In these days I noticed that the option cache is no more available in Google research. Until few days ago, the option was in the drop-down menu, below "Feedback", that appears when you click ...
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Why does Google Search's unit converter return incorrect values for femtometers?
A femtometer (fm) is a unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a meter:
1 fm = 10-15 m = 1e-15 m
When I use Google Search's built-in unit conversion to calculate 3 femtometers, instead of ...
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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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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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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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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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How do you make Google search acknowledge a specific configuration of whitespace?
If you search for "vi v i" chord progression, some results will highlight vi v i, but a good deal of other results will show things like v iv i or even vi vi.
How do you force the search so ...
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Why Google search result page has an "Ad Added" + number on the title of the result page?
I have encountered this situation a few times, it's not happening every time, and finally, I got this screenshot:
It's not just happening for my Chrome, but also for my brand-new installed Safari:
I ...
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