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Have you ever tried to search for something on google but found that the search you used provided you with 400+ pages of useless information? That is why you should use conditional searching! Using a conditional search on a specific person I was able to find, in 3 pages of google results (as only 3 came up) the persons: date of birth, current job, most recent resume, every website they had signed up for, 3 different emails attached to their name, and even a criminal background for a parking ticket. Now each person will be different, if you tried this method on say Donald Trump you would still get thousands of results with simple conditions but once you learn how to craft conditional searches... well... your search game gets a hole lot stronger.
To Start: Simple Formatting
So when I do this, as someone with a programming background, I find it easier to put my subjects in tags and use capital letters for my conditional operators. So for example, lets say I was looking up a chocolate chip cookie recipe that used nutmeg, I would search:
"Chocolate Chip Cookie" AND "Recipe" AND "Nutmeg"
Now you might be thinking "Hey, why wouldn't you just search that normally? My honest answer is for something like that I probably would just quickly type in normally but for more complex searches such as:
"Steemit" AND ("Censorship" OR ("Flagging" AND ("Obsessive" OR "Silencing")) OR "The Elite" OR ("Whales" AND "Oppressive"))
I get a search that is specifically crafted with steemit and those specific terms for my search. Just a quick not, you do not need the quotation marks, that is instead something that I do out of habit but google automatically removes them.
List Of Operators and or Refinement Options
Operator | Example | Usage |
---|---|---|
AND | "A" AND "B" | Refine search to only show items that contain both A and B |
OR | "A" OR "B" | Combines the search to include results of both A and B but won't necessarily show both. |
- | "A"-"B" | Looks for any search results that contain A but not B |
+ | "A"+"B" | Same as AND |
~ | ~set | This searches for different uses of that word, for instance ~set for me returns its usage in C++, JS, Mathematics, etc. Otherwise this is generally useless in my opinion. |
site: | site:steemit.com "flags" | Restricts search to any items that are from a specific website, for the example that would be steemit.com |
link: | link:facebook.com | Provides a small number of search results that link to the given site, in the example it would provide you with webpages that have a facebook link on them. |
intitle: | intitle:flags "steemit" | Will only search results that have the word in the title, for the example it would only search for google results that have to do with steemit and have flags in the title. |
allintitle: | allintitle:flags "steemit" | Same as intitle: |
intext: | intext:word | Only provides search results for pages with specific words in the text of the page. |
Now I can go on for a really long time writing these down in a single table for all of you but by now you should see where this is going. For a complete list look here, or here, here, here, here, here, here, and finally my absolute favorite here.
The reason why I am posting this is because many of my friends and peers watch me google things using these methods and call me freaky (as my desired result comes up first more often then not) and surprisingly it truly speeds up research times. I also started to work on a python script to automatically craft these types of google queries for my but found that I could manually craft them much faster with much higher complexity. I want people to learn how to use these types of queries so that they too can say they have google skills... Oh and, about that stalking thing where I found all that information out about a girl, she bet me I wouldn't be able to find much out about her because she has an extremely limited online presence but it wasn't long before I ended up looking up more specific things on the IoT search engine Shodan as I found out what type of netbook she had and... If you do not know what shodan is then please do not look it up, it is one of those things that is more work to explain what it is than it is worth. Anyways thank you for reading.
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