Google has implemented many search tricks into their popular search engine. These tricks can also be used on YouTube and other Google websites. The copy and pastable search tricks are listed below.
Exact search
Use quotation marks around the term to minimize the guesswork for Google Search. This tells the search engine to search for the whole phrase.
"Google Wiki"
Excluding words
Use a hyphen to tell Google to ignore content with one of the other. For example, if you want to search for just mustang horses and not cars use the syntax below:
Mustang -cars
File directory listings
"intitle: index of" (Find files: (type in what searching for) filetype:(file extension)
Search a website
The syntax below will search for articles or content on a certain website. All other search results will be removed. For example:
site:(name of site) (trying to find)
Conversion
In place of the words in parenthesis put what it says and remove the parentheses.
(conversion) in (conversion type)
Movie Times
In place of the words in parenthesis put what it says and remove the parentheses.
movie:(name of movie)(zip code)
Define
define (term)
Phone book
phonebook: (phone number)
Weather
weather:(zip code)
Math
number minus/- number number plus/+ number number times/x number number divided by/÷ number