Sometimes I’ll brag to people that I was an early Google adopter. Yep, while everyone else was hanging out Alta Vista and Yahoo, or god forbid, Ask Jeeves, the Ol’ Goog and I were partying like it was 1999.
Oh wait. It was 1999.
My guess is I have googled something at least five times a day every day since then. By conservative estimate, that puts me somewhere around 26,000 Google searches.
TWENTY SIX THOUSAND.
Twenty six thousand and not once did anyone tell me how to run a related query with a colon.
The hell? Goog, how could you hold back on me like this? I thought we were friends?
I saw this yesterday (maybe I saw your pin) Revelatory!
Oh! Oh! Aunt Peaches, once again, you have changed my life.
I’m a pretty late Googler actually and it took me an embarrassing number of years to switch from Yahoo to Google, but I made up for it by learning (most of) these years ago, although I had no idea about the “link:” search. I’m going to put that knowledge to use by creepin on sites that link to me!
I feel like with Google’s new “search engine for dummies” default settings make some of these not as useful unless you scroll down to the verbatim setting though. Searching for certain phrases and trying to filter out things you’re not looking for with a minus is only so useful when Google decides to throw in words that it thinks is related.
Oh wow, that is super helpful, thanks for sharing! I knew a few of those, like the quotation marks, but not the others… Awesome googlin’ tips!
So we do learn something new every day, who knew
I just came across your blog, and I freaking love it. You’ve made me LOL multiple times… it’s like you write what I’m thinking half the time, but 10x wittier.
you just make me laugh…..thanks! sharon