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Basic guide in using Google Search. Of course some of these items we are already using but others are fresh. Posting it here for your (my) guidance.

Use quotation marks " " to locate an entire string.
eg. “philippine beatles group” will only return results with that exact string.

Mark essential words with a +
If a search term must contain certain words or phrases, mark it with a + symbol. eg: +”the beatles” reunion will return all results containing “the beatles” but not necessarily those pertaining to a reunion.

Negate unwanted words with a -
You may wish to search for the term hive, pertaining to the bees and be returned a list of music links as well. To narrow down your search a bit more, try: bass -music. This will return all results with “hive” and NOT “music”. (the Hive is music band.)

site:www.beatles.com
This will search only pages which reside on this domain.

related:www.beatles.com
This will display all pages which Google finds to be related to your URL

link:www.beatles.com
This will display a list of all pages which Google has found to be linking to your site. Useful to see how popular your site is

spell:word
Runs a spell check on your word

define:word
Returns the definition of the word

stocks: [symbol, symbol, etc]
Returns stock information. eg. stock: msft

maps:
A shortcut to Google Maps

phone: name_here
Attempts to lookup the phone number for a given name

cache:
If you include other words in the query, Google will highlight those words within the cached document. For instance, cache:www.beatles.com web will show the cached content with the word “web” highlighted.

info:
The query [info:] will present some information that Google has about that web page. For instance, info:www.beatles.com will show information about the Beatles homepage. Note there can be no space between the “info:” and the web page url.

weather:
Used to find the weather in a particular city. eg. weather: manila