{"id":50,"date":"2017-02-17T12:29:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T12:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/greteldixon\/?p=50"},"modified":"2017-02-20T14:52:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T14:52:37","slug":"google-advanced-search-opeators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/greteldixon\/2017\/02\/17\/google-advanced-search-opeators\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s advanced search operators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-56\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/greteldixon\/files\/2017\/02\/google-76522_640-300x178.png\" alt=\"Google Search\" width=\"600\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/greteldixon\/files\/2017\/02\/google-76522_640-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/greteldixon\/files\/2017\/02\/google-76522_640.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, whilst delivering one of our Start-up Essentials sessions on doing market research, I briefly mention that Google is your best friend for doing research, specially if you familiarise yourself with its advanced search operators.<\/p>\n<p>Google itself has a great little basic guide on how to use them here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/websearch\/answer\/2466433?hl=en\">https:\/\/support.google.com\/websearch\/answer\/2466433?hl=en<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though my absolute favourite is this one by the Australian SEO company Supple, because is more of a quick, simple, visual reference library:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/supple.com.au\/tools\/google-advanced-search-operators\/\">https:\/\/supple.com.au\/tools\/google-advanced-search-operators\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regardless of which one you use, Google search operators are incredibly useful when searching for very specific information or documents in a certain format that normal general searches\u00a0would otherwise not rank as relevant enough to show up in search results.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t be scare to give them a try, you never know what hidden information gem you might find!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, whilst delivering one of our Start-up Essentials sessions on doing market research, I briefly mention that Google is your best friend for doing research, specially if you familiarise yourself with its advanced search operators. Google itself has a great little basic guide on how to use them here:\u00a0https:\/\/support.google.com\/websearch\/answer\/2466433?hl=en Though my absolute &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/greteldixon\/2017\/02\/17\/google-advanced-search-opeators\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google&#8217;s advanced search operators&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6545,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[40,39,8,43,44,41,9],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-market-research","tag-analysis","tag-data","tag-free","tag-market-research","tag-online","tag-research","tag-tools","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/greteldixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/greteldixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/greteldixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/greteldixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6545"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/greteldixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/greteldixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/greteldixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/greteldixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/greteldixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/greteldixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}