Programmer: Lifelong Learning: How to Google Search Like a Pro

Use quotes for exact search
* to match any word or phrase
+ to force include, - to eliminate results containing certain words
search syntax: OR, AND
site:, intitle:, inurl:, intext:, allintext:, link:, related:, filetype:
how to pronounce vs,
translate [keyword or sentence] to [language]
tip calculator, mortgage calculator, timer, stopwatch, [length of time] timer, color picker
search hashtag: #throwbackthursday
Search for a price: camera $400
Search within a range of numbers: camera $50..$100
Use Google Search or chrome search address bar:
- do math, check spelling, unit conversions(USD to Yuan), weather, define:
flight/travel: san jose to shanghai

In the UI, go to Tools -> Any Time: then specify time range: past hour/week etc
Query filter: before, after
- after:2019-6-1 before:2019-6-19
- the date format must be: year-month-day or year/month/day
sort by date for news search

qdr: query day range as url parameter
- qdr:h(past hour), d(past day), w(past week), m(past month), y(past year), qdr:h12 (past 12 hours)
- only works when pass it as url parameter, not as query string in the input box.
Create custom search engine to easily search within date range, so we don’t have to (use Trackpad) to move pointers and more clicks.
- Useful to find new update about book, tv shows
- https://www.google.com/search?tbs=qdr:d&q=%s
Check here to know why I hate Trackpad and how to use more keyboard, less trackpad

In the advanced search, use the drop-down to choose what kind of license you want the content to have in the “Usage rights” section.

chrome://settings/searchEngines
Chrome automatically add custom search engine for StackOverflow, Amazon etc; we can change the keyword shorter to make it even easier to use. For example change stackoverflow.com to st, superuser.com to su.

Name	keyword	URL
Site Search	site	javascript:location=‘https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:’+escape(location.hostname)+‘+%s’
Lucky Search With google	gl	https://www.google.com/search?btnI=1&q=%s
Lucky Search with DuckDuckGo	dl	https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!ducky %s
YouTube Search	y	https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s
Google maps Search	gm	https://www.google.com/maps?q=%s
Google Maps - Home	gh	https://www.google.com/maps/dir/home/%s
Last Day Search	lds	https://www.google.com/search?tbs=qdr:d&q=%s
Leave Address bar	l	javascript:

Don’t delete all chrome history (unless you have good reason)
- search and delete specific pages instead.

Try to reopen one specific page (not the last one) after close the window, or multiple pages, don’t use ctrl+shift+t to reopen them then try to find it: reopening them would cause a lot of memory spike and may cause disk spin etc.
Directly use Chrome Search history to find the page: search or scan last several pages.

Sometime, our browser history may cause some inconvenience, type “ma”, think the first would be “mail.google.com”, but maybe you recently searched mac xxx which may be shown first.
To fix it, we can Cmd+y to open search history, paste mac xxx then click the search result area and Cmd+A to select all then delete it by delete keyboard or the delete button.

from, to, cc, bcc, subject, -, label:, filename:,
OR or {}
category:, possible values: promotions, update, primary, social, forums,
after:, before:, older:, newer:
older_than: newer_than:
- delete all old emails older than 3 months in promotions: category:promotions older_than:3m
has:attachment, has:presentation/document/spreadsheet/youtube
has:yellow-star, has:blue-info/purple-star
is:important, is:starred/read/unread/snoozed
AROUND: secret AROUND 25 birthday or holiday AROUND 10 vacation
- Find messages with words near each other. Use the number to say how many words apart the words can be
- Add quotes to find messages in which the word you put first stays first.
flight/travel: san jose to shanghai

Use commas to activate filters:
- Upload date: hour, today, week, month, year, no need this or last
- Duration: long, short
- Features: live, HD
- Type playlist, channel, movie, show, video
-channel: exclude channels
intitle: to search terms in the name of the video
" " to exact match, +,-
sort by relevance, view count, upload date, rating

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