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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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 can I search for files with a specific extension and some file size range in Google? [closed]
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? [duplicate]
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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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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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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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 can I exclude search results written in Russian?
My region is set to Ukraine and Google Search results include pages written in Russian, sometimes even when my request is in English. Is there a way to filter the results to exclude results written in ...
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How to reduce a google search URL to an anonymized version [duplicate]
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 [duplicate]
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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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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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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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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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 with ...
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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 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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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 ...
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Are there any limits to the number of domains one can add when doing an advanced Google Search?
I am trying to find out if there is a limit to the number of domains I can add on advanced Google Search.
For example, if I want my search results limited to particular websites, I can add some ...
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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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Where exactly is "Search settings" under "Settings"?
I want to turn off Google suggestions that came on apparently by itself after I used YouTube. So I'm instructed to go to "Settings", and choose "Search Settings"; however, I can't locate it anywhere.
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How to fight against Google Captchas appearing on searches from a school network?
When I do a Google Search from our school network, every time we have to solve a Captcha, because Google identifies it as unusual traffic. We analyzed the traffic for a while and there is definitely ...
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Why does Google, Amazon, and other search (& search related) platforms still seem to have difficulties with seemingly basic queries?
I've noticed for some time now that Google (as amazing of a search engine as it is) and Amazon, as well as other large search platforms are still having a difficult time producing relevant results ...
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Is there a shortcut to site:youtube.com (search for videos on Youtube directly from a search bar)? [closed]
I use different search engines and anytime I need to search specifically on google all I need to do is type !g
Is there a shortcut for Youtube as well because typing site:youtube.com takes too much ...
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"Target text" highlight from google search
I recently noticed that when searching using google, I often land on a page with text highlighted. I can see it in Wikipedia, as well as Fandom wiki:
However, when I link web-address from the second ...
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Getting back the old Google search results without the favicons of 2019?
Google did some redesign so that domain icons appear with the results:
Any ideas if there is a way to get the old formatting back (where there is an actual URL, without the favicon, below the title ...
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How to filter out a long list of sites from Google search?
I have a list of sites I would like to permanently exclude from Google search results. These are the large family of sites plagiarizing (and some of them garbling with machine translation) Q&A ...
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Google shows results and values in mixed languages
I am using English language in Chrome and have this language set as default for most of the sites, but since I am from Poland I have forced (in Google Account settings) to have all the search results ...
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Google search - translate links over actual links
I'm using Firefox on Arch Linux, and the Google results are looking weird, with some text over the title to the pages' links:
The offending text is a link to Google's translated version of the page.
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(How) can I ask Google Search to crawl a specific URL on a website I don't maintain?
This question on Meta Stack Exchange asks whether crawler visits count towards the 'number of views' of a Stack Exchange question (that determines the 'people reached' statistic on your profile).
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Show full URL on Google Search results?
I would like to see the full URL disclosed. Is there any way to achieve this? Maybe using a custom script or browser extension?
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How to search google doc filetype from google?
Is it possible to search for google docs documents/filetype from google search engine?
I know it's possible to search for .doc file types like so trucks filetype:doc
But is it possible to search ...
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How do I Google a range of numbers in a link?
How do I Google - which books on Toronto Public Library's website fitting my selected criteria, have 50-100 copies?
Inputting
50..100 copies site:torontopubliclibrary.ca/search.jsp?Ntt=introduction+...
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How do I make Google search with multiple sets of filter conditions?
I'm trying to combine two search queries consisted of multiple search operators into one search query, but it's not working.
1st query:
trade war site:bbc.com AND inurl:world-43512098
2nd query:
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How do I filter news articles out of my Google search?
I'm trying to google a topic which has a lot of heavy media coverage. I'm looking for technical details though, not any media coverage. The problem is the most combinations of search queries end up ...
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Removing one or more than one specific languages from Google results
I'm wondering if it's possible to remove one or more than one specific languages from Google results. For example, here I want to exclude Spanish, I prefer only English and Italian:
https://www....
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Google sports widget: displaying women schedule by default
When searching for a sporting event on Google, say Wimbledon, Google displays the schedule of the upcoming games.
I've noticed that, by default, Google displays the women's singles schedule (second ...
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Is it possible to set different languages for different Google apps?
If I change my Google account's default language, it sets it for Search and Google Maps, and Gmail and so on...
Now I want my Search to default to one language and my Google Maps default language to ...
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Can't get search results on Google anymore
Since this morning, it appears that I can't get any search results anymore when I am logged in my account. If search anything, all I will get is "did not match any results". The only thing I ...
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Suggest/Recommend/Search Google Doodle featuring topics
How and where do we suggest or recommend Google Doodle featuring topics?
For example, today is June 13, which is the birthday of one of the greatest physicists, James Clerk Maxwell. As far as I ...
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How to search Google Groups for keywords
I went to https://groups.google.com and searched for boot ring seat, looking for a specific Usenet message that I know has those three words in it. No results. All right, I thought, maybe I'm ...
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