Google-Fu, Secret Sauce of Successful developers.
Mind is a canvas use it to paint it with creativity, don’t use it as a dustbin.
This is something that is always missing in beginner developers, that make them struggle a lot.
Instead of keep asking to experienced/seniors/peers, they need to understand how to google perfectly. So, In today’s article, I will share few tips and tricks (Google Dorks) to improve google searching and make it faster, effective and better.
- Search the exact keywords by enclosing it in double quotes.
Using Double quotes improve search results in cases like if you want to see how to solve an error, but be smart while using this,put some very specific information in quotes and get ready to have a “No Search Results”.
2. Search data in specific website.
This have a very real life usecase, For example you want to get some code related to some work on github, you can simply use site:github.com
3. Exclude keywords from google search.
If we want to exclude something from our search results, just use — before that keyword and google will completely filter it off.
4. State timings of google search results
You can flexibly get article/websites for that specific year. using before and after search parameters.
5. Using Wildcards.
Using wildcards will be very helpful for finding a variety of topics related to the search and will be very powerful.
6. Defining file type.
To get data for a specific file type, for ex. as shown above trying to do search of pdf files related to google.
Hope it might help getting better in googling, these tricks are really helpful for getting search results accurate and easily.
References:
- Fireship — Google Fu
