Google registers over 35 million searches per day and undoubtedly is the leading search engine in the world. With each passing day, Google has been upgrading its algorithms and metrics to improve the user experience and provide more relevant results. Advanced Search is one such attempt by Google to help the users retrieve more pertinent information. Whatsoever be your search queries, Advanced Search will help you derive better and accurate search result.
In this post, we shall take you through a tour elaborately describing the specific sections of Advanced Search.
Getting Started
To get to the ‘Advanced Search’, enter your query in the search box. After the results are displayed, look at the right side top corner of the page and click on settings or scroll down to the bottom to find the link named ‘Advanced search’.
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No sooner you hit on the link, you will be led to the Google Advanced Search query page wherein you will find a number of fields with which you can narrow your search.
Google Advanced Search Query Page
This is how the Google Advanced Search Query Page looks like –
The above image shows how Google Advanced Search interface customizes your search queries. This is very powerful for refining your search to provide the most topical and relevant information
How the Advanced Search Page Works?
Enter the search queries or numbers on the Advanced Search page and then choose the different filters to derive the exact set of results. These filters shall help you seek the most relevant information. You can find the pages by mentioning all the key phrases in the “all these words” section. Put the exact words under quotes in the “this exact word or phrase”, type all the words you want to appear in the search result in the “any of these words” section. Put a minus (-) sign before the words which you do not wish to appear in the advanced search result in the “none of these words” section. When you want to filter your search by numeric value (years, price or numbers), put two periods between each numbers in the “numbers ranging from” section.
Other filters will also help you narrow your results-
- Language: Mention the specific language for displaying the search result. Last updated date, any specific site or domain. Where the search terms appear on the page (in the title, texts, URLs, links or anywhere in the page)
- Safe Search filter: Decide on the option of getting the relevant result or filter the explicit result. When you wish to exclude the adult content from your search result, choose the option “Filter Explicit Results”. Reading level filter- Mention if you wish to annotate the results with reading levels, get only the basic results, intermediate results or advanced results. If you do not want reading level, simply choose “no reading level displayed” filter.
- File type: This will provide you search results in your desired file format. If you want your search result to be displayed in pdf format or .doc format, you need to choose the specific filter from the dropdown and the result will be displayed in the format you chose.
- Usage rights: You can choose the usage rights to find a particular web content. You can find the content that are either “not filtered by license”, “free to use or share”, “Free to use, share even commercially”, “Free to use, share, or modify” or “Free to use, share, or modify, even commercially”. Upon selecting Free to use or share, you will get results of the sites or pages that are either public domain or holds a license of allowing you to lift and redistribute its content, in an unchanged manner. Free to use, share, or modify will provide you results of the sites or domains that have the license to allow you to lift, modify and redistribute the content. When you want to copy and distribute content or copy, distribute and modify the content for commercial usage, then you need choose either Free to use, share even commercially” or the or “Free to use, share, or modify, even commercially” option.
Google Advanced Search is one creative way dedicated to enhance the effectiveness and search experience of the user.
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