18 Essential Google Search Tips for Developers
Overview
In this video, developers are introduced to 18 essential tips and tricks for using Google effectively to find solutions to coding errors and programming queries. The focus is on refining search techniques to enhance productivity and efficiency.
Key Tips
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Use Quotation Marks: For exact matches, surround your search phrase with quotation marks.
- Example: "cannot read properties of undefined"
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Use Asterisk as Placeholder: If unsure of the exact phrase, use an asterisk (*) as a wildcard.
- Example: "never gonna *"
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Use Parentheses for Word Count: To search for phrases with a specific number of words, use parentheses.
- Example: "how (to) (exit)"
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Search Within a Specific Site: Use
site:example.com
to limit results to a specific website.- Example:
site:youtube.com javascript
- Example:
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Include or Exclude Terms: Use
+
to include and-
to exclude terms in your search.- Example:
javascript + code - angular
- Example:
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Use OR for Multiple Terms: To search for multiple terms, use the
OR
operator.- Example:
javascript OR typescript
- Example:
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Group Search Terms: Use parentheses to group search terms.
- Example:
react (javascript OR typescript)
- Example:
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Search in URL: Use
inurl:
to find results with specific terms in the URL.- Example:
inurl:view
- Example:
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Search in Title: Use
intitle:
to find results with specific terms in the title.- Example:
intitle:react
- Example:
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Search in Text: Use
intext:
to find results with specific terms in the body text.- Example:
intext:nft
- Example:
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Search for Specific File Types: Use
filetype:
to find documents in specific formats.- Example:
css cheat sheet filetype:pdf
- Example:
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Find Related Sites: Use
related:
to find sites similar to a specified URL.- Example:
related:petco.com
- Example:
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Check Backlinks: Use
link:
to find pages that link to a specific URL.- Example:
link:codestacker.com
- Example:
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Search by Date: Use
after:
to find results published after a specific date.- Example:
javascript fetch after:2021
- Example:
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Search by Number Range: Use
..
to specify a range of numbers.- Example:
cameras $500..$1000
- Example:
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Check Cached Versions: Use
cache:
to find cached versions of a website.- Example:
cache:amazon.com
- Example:
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Search for Synonyms: Use a tilde (~) before a word to include synonyms in your search.
- Example:
~inexpensive laptop
- Example:
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Use Google Definitions: Simply type
define:
followed by the word to get its definition.- Example:
define:life
- Example:
Additional Tips
- Use Google’s advanced search settings for more parameters.
- Remember to bookmark useful results for future reference.
Conclusion
These tips can significantly improve your ability to find coding solutions and enhance your productivity as a developer. For more programming insights, check out our summary on Top 10 Python Functions to Simplify Your Coding Experience and Java Programming: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding Java and Its Concepts. Like and subscribe for more helpful content!
google is a developer's best friend the only way to become a 10x developer is to learn the fine art of googling
[Music] no one can remember every syntax method or property of any programming language
much less multiple languages and libraries when you come across an error what's the best way to search for it in
this video we're going to go over 18 tips and tricks to find the information or solution that you're looking for
quickly by far the best way to search for a specific error is to be specific look for the exact match by using
quotation marks if we search for the error cannot read properties of undefined reading path we'll find some
valid results but some are not going to match exactly for instance this one says reading map so let's surround this error
with quotation marks now and now every result is going to be this exact match now maybe you're not sure of
the exact phrase to search for you can use the asterisk as a placeholder so let's search for never gonna asterisk
that's what i was searching for never gonna give you up if you're not sure exactly how many words are in the phrase
you can use a round in all caps so let's search for how and then around and i think there's two words in between how
and them that i'm looking for that's it how to exit them you'll also notice that links that
you've already clicked are going to be highlighted in purple so if you find yourself searching for the same things
over and over again hopefully you'll start remembering the answers or maybe it's a good reference for you to
bookmark or favorite if we want to search for something in a specific site we can do that as well so let's search
for javascript but we only want the results to come from youtube.com so we'll say site colon youtube.com and now
all of these results are only from youtube if you want to specifically include or exclude terms we can use the
plus and minus characters let's search for javascript plus code stacker this will find all of my javascript content
let's say we want to exclude something let's search for javascript minus angular
you won't find angular in any of these results if you're searching for multiple things
we can include or so let's search for javascript or typescript most of these are going to be comparisons so
javascript versus typescript if you want to look for each search term individually use the pipe character so
we'll say javascript type typescript now all of these results will either have javascript included or typescript we can
even group things using parentheses let's search for react with either javascript or typescript as well
now all of these results are about react but some of them include javascript and some include typescript
next let's search for view let's say that we only want to search for results that have view in the url so at the
beginning we can type in url colon view now all of these urls have view in them let's say that we want to search for
view 3 specifically well in url is only going to search for the term right after the colon if we want all of the search
terms to be included then we need to use all in url now all of these have view 3 in the url next let's search for react
and we could do something similar by using in title so let's add in title colon and now all
of these have react in the title let's say that we want to specifically look for react 18 again we'll need to
use all in title and now all of the search terms will be in the title and again we can do something similar with
the body text of the website so let's say in text nft now all of these results have nft in the
body text let's say instead of nft we want to search for non-fungible token well if we
just did in-text non-fungible token it's just going to look for non and then fungible and token could be anywhere
else so let's do all in text and now non-fungible token will be in the text body now these become even more powerful
when you combine multiple search operators together so maybe you're searching a specific site or page with
specific text give that a try next let's say that we're searching for a css cheat sheet but we want this to be in a
specific file format let's add file type colon let's search for pdf now all of these results are going to be css cheat
sheet pdfs and it's not just limited to pdfs there are many different file types that you can search for let's say that
you want to find a related or alternate site so instead of petco i want to find something similar to petco let's do
relatedcolonpetco.com we see all of the related sites we can also show pages that point to a url so
let's use linkcoloncodestacker.com now we see all of the sites that link to
my site but we can see that it's also including my site because i have pages that link
to my own site so let's combine that with minus sitecoloncodestacker.com this is going to remove my site from the
results and now all of these are sites other than my own site that link to my site
you also want to make sure that the info that you're getting is up to date so let's search for javascript fetch we're
going to include after colon 2021 so now we're only going to see results after the specified date
we can also specify a range of numbers to search for by adding dots between the numbers so let's search for cameras that
are between 500 and a thousand dollars so now all of the articles that are coming up are between 500 and a thousand
dollars notice this one let's change our search to cameras between 500 and 800 dollars so now we can see our search
results are a bit different and we don't have any that go up to a thousand dollars
now maybe a site is down or there's a page that you can't access anymore we can check to see if there is a cached
version available so let's search for cash colon amazon.com i mean amazon never goes down but you never know so
now this is a cached version of amazon.com or a backup we can also use a tilde character in front of a word to
search for the word and synonyms of that word so instead of just doing inexpensive laptop we can add a tilde
right before it with no space so now we can see these results include inexpensive budget
cheap best under anything that is similar if you don't know the definition of a word we can easily find that so
let's define life apparently google knows the definition of life and i'm an okay speller but for some reason i just
can't spell the word definitely let's put that in there by doing this we can use google as a spell checker if you
need to find something nearby just use that keyword plus find some coffee nearby here's an extra tip did you know
that there is an advanced search in google go to settings and then advanced search there are tons of parameters here
you can use to find exactly what you're looking for i hope you found something helpful like this video to help me out
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