4.3 billion people use Google every day.

But 99.9% of them don't know how to search Google properly.

Here are 15 tips to use Google more efficiently:

Use quotes

When searching for something specific: use quotes.

Search: Sun the perineum

And the engine will search for content that contains those 3 words in any order.

But if you search “Sun the perineum” it will search for that phrase exactly as you typed it.
Use a colon to search specific sites

Search: law of attraction site:https://t.co/XRep1lKOZU

Will show you results on the 'law of attraction' only from my website.
Find sites that are similar to other sites

Search: related:https://t.co/QOHfyrxF81

Will show you all the sites related to Twitter.
Find a specific file

Syntax: Wisdom filetype:pdf

Will show all pdfs related to 'wisdom'.

This can mostly be useful for scholarly purposes, business presentations and other assorted presentations.
Use @ to search social media

Add @ in front of a word to search social media.

Search: infinitians@twitter

Will show all the results for Infinitians from Twitter.
Look for images of specific colour, size, copyright, time or type.

If you search for Deadpool and tune your result to the colour orange

It will give you images of an orange Deadpool.

Yup really.
Compare two or more things using “vs”

If you want to determine whether living in Bali is better than Dubai

Just search: Bali VS Dubai
Spell Those Numbers

How do you spell out 6,546,345,645? Google can tell you if you search [number]=english
Play Games in Google Search

Google has a host of built-in games like Pac-Man, tic tac toe, Solitaire, Minesweeper, and Snake.

Search flip a coin and Google will do it for you; the same thing with a die or spinner.
Create a Google Alert

If you want to be notified whenever a keyword is published on the web

Create a Google Alert
Use a hyphen to exclude words

Using "-" excludes words or phrases from the results.

Search: Rocky -film

Will show results related to 'rocky' in general but not the film Rocky.
Perform a Reverse Image Search

This function allows you to upload an image file and find information on that image.

Eg: if you uploaded a picture of the Eiffel Tower

Google will recognize it and give you information on the Paris monument.
Add a tilde (~) in front of a word to find synonyms

If you search for iPhone ~cheap

You will also get results for "iPhone inexpensive," and so forth.
Use Google search to do math

Perhaps my go-to feature.

Whether it's converting currencies
Dividing a big number
Or even calculating the square root of 4761

Google has you covered.
Leverage Google Shortcuts

• Weather *zip code* – This will show you the weather in the given zip code

• Time *place* – This will display the time in whatever place you type in.

• Define: *word* – This will display the definition of a word.

• Sunrise/Sunset *city*
Use an asterisk in place of words you do not know.

If you forget things and words easily, * will come to your rescue.

Search: imagine all * for today

And google will give you John Lenon on a silver platter.
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A brief analysis and comparison of the CSS for Twitter's PWA vs Twitter's legacy desktop website. The difference is dramatic and I'll touch on some reasons why.

Legacy site *downloads* ~630 KB CSS per theme and writing direction.

6,769 rules
9,252 selectors
16.7k declarations
3,370 unique declarations
44 media queries
36 unique colors
50 unique background colors
46 unique font sizes
39 unique z-indices

https://t.co/qyl4Bt1i5x


PWA *incrementally generates* ~30 KB CSS that handles all themes and writing directions.

735 rules
740 selectors
757 declarations
730 unique declarations
0 media queries
11 unique colors
32 unique background colors
15 unique font sizes
7 unique z-indices

https://t.co/w7oNG5KUkJ


The legacy site's CSS is what happens when hundreds of people directly write CSS over many years. Specificity wars, redundancy, a house of cards that can't be fixed. The result is extremely inefficient and error-prone styling that punishes users and developers.

The PWA's CSS is generated on-demand by a JS framework that manages styles and outputs "atomic CSS". The framework can enforce strict constraints and perform optimisations, which is why the CSS is so much smaller and safer. Style conflicts and unbounded CSS growth are avoided.