1.) Use Double Quotation Marks for an Exact Phrase Search
For example:
Women who love football - 34,600,000 results. Not all of them are relevant.
"Women who love football" - 45,500 results. As you can see here, the quotes help us eliminate a lot of unnecessary results.
2.) Wildcard Search With the Asterisk
search like this:
"the bridge on the river *"
There you go, it's the river, Kwai.
3.) Specify to Include or Exclude the Site
The "site:" operator tells Google to search only within a particular site, or within sites with a certain domain suffix. For example, you want to search for Kobe Bryant at ESPN.com. You can use "Kobe Bryant" site:ESPN.com for better results.
Similarly, if you want to exclude a particular site from the search results, that's also possible. All you have to do is add a " - " (minus sign) sign before the "site:" operator. For example, you'd like to download the Yahoo! messenger from a non-Yahoo! Web site. For this, you can use "Yahoo messenger" -site:yahoo.com.
5.) Find Definitions
Google's "define" operator can help you look up word definitions. You simply need to include this operator in your search phrase to access definitions with just a click.
For example, to find out the definition of bass fishing, you would type define: bass fishing.
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