Questions tagged [google-search]
Search engine owned and developed by Google
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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 ...
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Get ALL image search results?
Apologies if this is a duplicate. I've done a little research and it seems futile but thought I'd ask: Does anyone know a way to get all (or more?) Google Image Search results than the ones they ...
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Google Search results vs. full page of spam links
I've searched for ext:PDF (filetype version) of a probably popular = commercial successful book and got full page (maybe more) of spam links - it's more than 100!
How to deal with a full page of spam ...
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How can I restrict my Google Search's results to n number of sites? (n>1)
I know I can use site: to restrict my search result to a particular site. How can I restrict my search on more particular sites?
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Google is in German instead of English
As you can see in the following picture, firefox's language is German.
Searching for 'google maps' brings as first result www.google.de/map.
What i did was to follow the steps in this tutorial: ...
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How to get Google search results and exclude sub-pages? [duplicate]
Sorry if question title isn't clear. Let me explain with an example.
Search term: Blogging
Results I got from Google
https://www.bloggingbasics101.com/how-do-i-start-a-blog/
https://www....
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How do I search for a list of Google map locations?
How do I search for a Google map with tagged locations?
For example, how would I find a map of the locations of Tudor theatres in London, tagged on a modern London Google map? Searches for maps in ...
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How to search for animated GIF straight from Google search bar?
I saw that search for: filetype:gif or *.gif return me GIF files but there are GIF files that aren't animated.
There's a way to search from advanced image search by selecting images and then select: ...
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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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Increase font size in Google search results
Can I increase the font size in Google search results? I already searched everywhere, but still didn't get an answer
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Google search bug?
When I insert this URL in the browser's address field:
https://www.google.com/search?q=notepad++.exe
then the plus characters are replaced by space characters in the Google search field:
How can ...
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What are the different parameters used in Google search?
For example:
If I search for hello in Google, URL looks somethings like this:
https://www.google.ca/search?q=hello&rlz=1CAHPZT_enCA791CA791&oq=hello&aqs=chrome..69i57.3586j0j9&...
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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: Queries with AND and OR
I would like to search on Google a keyword "key1" together with "key2" or "key3".
Would it work "key1" and (key2 or key3)
or "key1" and key2 or "key1" or key3?
Which way would be better to search a ...
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Google Search quotes do not work for non-English text
If it's an English text (eg), all search results will have the quoted text.
But otherwise (eg (ctrl-F ≪因为≫)) no.
Why does it not work? How to get it to work?
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Create Google Alert on news with multiple keywords
I have a set of keywords that I would like to monitor on Google News, using their function (or other free open source solutions) to get Alerts via email.
Google Alert:
Do you know if there exists ...
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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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How to stop Google's "people also search for"
Whenever you do a search on Google, it will give the results which you then click on, obviously. But sometimes you hit back to go back to the results.The problem is, Google waits a second to make some ...
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Is it possible to use a wildcard and a punctuation mark on Google search?
I'd like to find results from Google Search containing the following pattern: a phrase initiated with the word because - followed by any word - and ended with a period. For example: "because tired." "...
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Google Images: can't select different image sizes
For a while back, when you performed a search on Google Images, you could click on the image dimensions (for example 350x200) and then it will display all image sizes of that image.
Since the recent ...
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How to Show Google's `People also search for` in Chrome
I noticed recently that if I search for something in Google, click on one of the links, and go back to the search results, then a new box entitled People also search for appears below the search ...
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Is google case sensitive?
I noticed that when I type "SoC" or "soc", the results are not the same. But I read on Quora that Google is case sensitive. I don't know what to think ?
Notice : I'm in France
Edit: sorry I wanted ...
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How do I search for all pages on domain X that link to domain Y via Google?
What would be for example the search for all pages on stackexchange.com that link to wikipedia.org?
In case Google can't do this, is there another way I can get this answer?
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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 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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What is Google search settings "Current Region" based on?
This is what I see in google.com/preferences:
How do I see which region is the "Current Region"?
What is Google search settings Current Region based on?
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Are Chrome bookmarks used by Google Search to improve their search results?
I am wondering if Google uses the data from all Google Chrome users for their weighting of search results. A simple bookmark count would reveal importance, then they could prioritize the search ...
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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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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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Can Search Engines index standalone URLs with long long alphanumeric characters in it? [closed]
There's a web application designed by Freshdesk to track customer support requests.
Ironically the application seems to have a feature to create an Internet Public URL for the support request whereby ...
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Get frequency result in 1/(units of time)
As a developer, I sometimes want to estimate how long a particular process takes. So I'll let it run a while, take the number of items it completed, and divide by how long it took. So if process X ...
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Would like to exclude any sort of video from a Google search
I have a topic I'm interested in reading about. (DIY hamster toys in this case — but it could be anything.) When I do a Google search there are tons of videos in the results. In my initial ...
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Google search by time frame anomaly
I'm trying to understand the logic Google search uses when I use the time frame filter.
In the first search, I restrict results to "Past 24 hours":
In the second search, I restrict to "Past week" :
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Can I exclude Google Books result from Google Search?
I googled several random keywords and gave me undesired result like this below :
There were Google Books results (undesired). I tried -site:books.google.co.in but they were still exist.
How can I get ...
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How to stop Google from redirecting me to the version of my country
I'm from Poland. And Google persistently redirect me to Google.pl.
Now if I go to Google.com, it will redirect me to Google.pl, unless I go to Google.com/ncr, in which case it doesn't.
But how can I ...
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How can I search a specific word on Google at the same time avoiding it in a phrase?
This is my first post here, so Hi! and don't hesitate to migrate my question to anywhere else, wherever it might be more appropriate
To better understand my question, here is an example -
I want to ...
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How to search for a type of business in a particular area that is open at a particular time of day
I've recently discovered that it's possible to find businesses that are "open now" using a Google search query that passes the "tbm=lcl" parameter, e.g. https://www.google.com/search?tbm=lcl&ei=...
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How can I search for web results specific to a country
In the old days I could (sometimes) get country specific results by using the google portal in that country (like google.co.uk). However, Google has removed this functionality. Also, that ...
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What determines the Google bio frame upon search relevance/subjects?
When you search for, say, a major public figure or celebrity, Google presents a little bio frame/bar on the right of the screen with info it pulls from various sources, including images and such of ...
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Cosette related to Amanda Seyfried in Google Search?
I like Les Mis and Cosette, so when I googled Cosette, the results like this:
Why Google Search related Cosette keyword to her potrayer, Isabelle Allen and Amanda Seyfried? Any relationship between ...
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Exclude specific words and sites from Google Search
I googled some random keywords and gave me results like this:
I know that planetlagu.site is either a song download site or a Youtube download site. They offer MP3, MP4, and 3GP but all of them are ...
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Google news search results annoying and confusing
I'm looking for latest updates of my favorite YouTuber, Kathryn Morgan. So I googled her and in Web results, I got what I intended. But when I googled her in News Search, the results like this:
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How to exclude a TV series from Google's search result?
I am searching Google images for "friends" but most of the results relate to the "Friends" TV series.
Is it possible to exclude these results?
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How do I find references to zstd in the ubuntu mailing lists using google.com/search?
Sep'17 ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing archive page
has the line:
FW: zstd package on Ubuntu LTS 16.04 Yann Collet
I am attempting to locate any additional references to zstd in the ubuntu ...
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How do I get a single URL removed from Google Search results?
I keep running into URLs that no longer exist, but which Google Search still returns and end up giving me a 404 error. I know it'll get re-scanned eventually, but how do I prompt Google to re-scan it ...
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Is there a better way to get a search engine to return more relevance?
From time to time, I make the occasional language course on Memrise. One of the things I want to start adding to my courses are videos from the "real world" that contain some of the words in the ...
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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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What does "&q=%s" mean at the end of a Google search URL?
What does the &q=%s mean (and do) at the end of a Google custom search URL like http://www.google.com/search?q=@@@&tbs=qdr:y&q=%s?
Background: I'm using Anysearch Safari Extension (https:/...
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How can I search case sensitive online [duplicate]
I'm trying to search online for the string toUri().
Valid result will be Java's Path.toUri()
But when I search google it return mostly toURI results.
When I search I discover that search engines ...
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