jespah
 
Reply Fri 30 Aug, 2024 09:11 pm
Not everyone has great Google-fu so please drop a tip or two to help people do it better!

Inspired by something I just learned and I have tested. Yes, it works.

The tip:
If you don't like just getting 10 results per page after you run a search, go to the URL and add &num=100 to the end of the URL. Refresh and voila, you'll get 100 results. Works with Google. Haven't tried it with any other search engines.

Happy searching!
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hightor
 
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Reply Sat 31 Aug, 2024 03:06 am
@jespah,
Many thanks for this!
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tsarstepan
 
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Reply Sat 31 Aug, 2024 07:43 pm
@jespah,
I can't give any current tricks. But I can tell you tricks that no longer work because Google search is atrocious.

"search term" basically doesn't work if you want to be hyperspecific about the spelling and guarantee all the words between the quotes are in the search results.

-searchterm doesn't work anymore if, for instance, you're trying to make sure the search term in question WILL BE COMPLETELY ABSENT IN/BANISHED FROM your search results.
jespah
 
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Reply Tue 3 Sep, 2024 10:27 pm
@tsarstepan,
Yeah, I've noticed the minus sign seems to be ... less than wonderful now. Hmm.
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