Google Advanced Search It's one of those super useful tools for finding information that users have almost forgotten.
I will not stop to analyze the reasons for this, and I do not want that to be the central theme of this article.
It seems strange to me that this is so and that it is not used more often.
In this post I will teach you point by point how to use this Google utility.
Advanced peer-to-peer Google search
Well, the first thing we have to do to enter Google's advanced search is to open an incognito window in your browser.
To do this, take a look at the following image:
We regularly do this to prevent Google from contaminating search results with our browsing data.
We want Google to give us the most relevant results, not based on our profile, but based on what it deems most relevant.
For this, we open the private browsing window.
Regardless, you can skip this step if you want, it is not important.
Once this is done, we will enter the Google address in our country. In my case, Google.es.
Once we are there, we click setting and we will choose the advanced search option from the drop-down menu.
As we see in the following images.
Once this is done, you will be in the advanced Google search, as you see below, and we will start working.
Google Advanced Search has two parts:
- Until entering keywords
- The background to play with the result filters.
You can clearly see these search functions here.
Using Google's advanced search, a small example
Suppose we want to know what is the volume of book sales in Spain.
I can guarantee you that I personally have no idea. So let's do the exercise for the first time.
We go to advanced Google search and type:
- book sale in the first box
- in any of these words we do not include: magazines, newspapers, videos, comics
- And in the filters we select: the Spanish language and the region of Spain
The results of this Research They are not expected therefore we will redo the search.
We carry out a second search with the following terms:
- Book sales data
- in any of these words we do not include: magazines, newspapers, videos, comics
- And in the filters we select: the Spanish language and the region of Spain
We include the word "data" because it is a very specific definition. We obtain the following results:
And in conclusion we do one last advanced search:
- Book sale barometers
- in any of these words we do not include: magazines, newspapers, videos, comics
- And in the filters we select: the Spanish language, the region of Spain and the type of pdf file
We include the word "barometers" because it is a definition that gives us very good results and we add the PDF file type filter because we want to get the reports from the Ministry of Culture.
From this dynamics we will obtain much more precise results.
We had to make four attempts but the results were more than satisfactory.
Other advanced search services
Just as we can use Google's advanced search to improve your search results, you can use other advanced search services, from other search engines or search services such as those mentioned in this post:
This will go a long way to helping you identify the information you require.
At the same time, if it comes to improving search results, you can use different tips and items to significantly improve your search results, also using them with advanced search.
To do this, check out these posts:
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