How much do you think you know about Google? Do you even Google? How much do you Google? Without needing to go into too much detail, Google has been such a big help, query-wise. For the longest time, if you needed some quick answers to equally difficult questions, Google would be able to lead you to the ‘ideal’ answers. But, if you really want to squeeze everything you can out of Google and find exactly what it is you’re looking for, then it would be best to be aware of the various search operators to qualifiers that you can add to further refine your query.

Cheaters Never!

If you answered ‘Yes’ to all of the above, this list is bound to help – a team from SEMRush has put together an overview of some of the top Google operators that you can consider adding to your process. Just for a little bit of context, an ‘operator’ is also technical jargon that means ‘command’. SEMRush has a separate full guide to all of the extra operators and connectors that you can add to your queries. Here are the most notable ones:

  • “ ” (Quotation Marks) – Allows searching for a specific phrase — exact match search. Individual word prevents synonyms. This is a basic operator mainly used in Google Mail.

  • $ A basic Search operator that allows users to search for USD.

  • in – A basic operator that allows searches for unit conversion (i.e currency, unit, measure, etc.).

  • daterange: – An advanced operator that returns results within a specified range (must be in julian dates).

  • loc: – An advanced operator that returns results of a specific location. Handy for geographic targeting.

There are 81 other operators in SEMRush’s full guide, so we highly recommend checking it out for a more comprehensive breakdown of operators that you can use within and beyond Google Search, and how they can help you further polish your own strategy to better align with the function of these operators (i.e improving your content visibility, etc.).

The Wrap

Google isn’t the search king for nothing. Besides the regular search function, we’re all familiar with, there are multiple other nuances and technical commands that you can use, whether as a visitor or an SEO resource person, to improve the overall search experience. Operators are often placid before the actual query, prompting Google to execute the command based on whatever operator was used. It requires a bit of practice and research to master, but once you get the hang of using Google operators, then you’re already a step above the rest of the competition.

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