14 Google Tips that will Save You Hundreds of Hours!
About this video
Jeff Su shares 14 Google search tips for productive professionals, focused on search operators. He explains using related: to find a client’s closest competitors, site: to search within a specific website such as hbr.org, Quora, Glassdoor, LinkedIn or Reddit, and combining site: with a country domain like .us, .fr or .de to search by region. He also covers intitle:infographic and inurl:infographic to find infographics, filetype:pdf to find reports and practice materials such as consulting case interviews, and intitle: with a year to find current reviews. Other tips cover the date range tool set to past year, finding transparent-background images in Google Images, excluding words with the minus sign, excluding sites with minus plus site:, quotation marks for exact matches, the asterisk as a wildcard, the plus operator for targeted results, and OR to search multiple possibilities at once.
Key takeaways
- Use related: for competitor research and site: to limit results to one website, with examples including hbr.org, Quora, Glassdoor, LinkedIn and Reddit
- Combine site: with a top-level country domain such as .us, .fr or .de to get region-specific results
- Use intitle:, inurl: and filetype: to find infographics, year-specific articles, and PDF reports or practice cases
- Use the date range tool and Google Images Tools, Color, Transparent to find up-to-date tutorials and background-free images
- Refine results with the minus sign to exclude words or sites, quotation marks for exact matches, asterisk as a wildcard, plus for a niche term, and OR for multiple alternatives
Episode details: published January 25, 2022 · 6:52 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Jeff Su’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.
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