Google Search Tips

Hopefully you know how to do a basic Google Search and are familiar with using

“Quotation marks”

-dashes (minus) to exclude
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Vs for comparisons

But what about ~tilde and .. dot dot? and | pipe

~ Tilde gives you synonyms so searching for music ~classes will look for similar words to classes (so lessons, coaching, …) Arguable Google already does similar searching automatically, but see what difference this makes and decide for yourself.

.. dot dot gives you a range
alfa spider 2001..2002
world war 2 1939..1945

| pipe gives you OR
site:ebay.com.au 14tb|16tb
"red dress" | "blue dress"

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