When searching for information online, you can usually find thousands (if not more) web pages that match your search results. If you can't find what you want, then you need to narrow your results. One way to do that is to use search operators. Here are some of the most useful search operators (wherever you see "search" is where you would enter your search term or terms):
@search - find social media tags with your search term
#search - get information on trending hashtags with your search term
-search - exclude sites with the search term from your results
"search" - only include pages with the exact term or phrase (including the exact spelling)
search * search2 - allows for any amount of information in the middle of the search terms
number..number - searches for numbers in between two numbers (especially useful when looking for a product priced in a particular range)
site:search.com - searches for particular terms only on a particular site
link:search.com - finds pages that link to a particular site
related:search.com - finds pages that are similar to a particular site
cache:search.com - displays what sites looked like the last time Google's bots crawled the page
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