18 Essential Google Search Tips for Developers

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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