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The vast majority of Internet users have some experience with Google Search. Although some competing search engines, such as Seznam, are quite popular in our country, Google's results are still among the best, regardless of whether you're looking for informace to expand your knowledge or a product you are interested in. Often, when searching, we enter a query directly into the address bar, which usually displays the pages found by Google.

But Google search allows for much more than you might have thought. The most typical example would be the bar below the text input field whose items can be accessed by clicking on instruments. This will allow you to specify your questions in more detail. You can choose the search language here, but also the time limit or request an exact match of the results. Bookmark Pictures will offer parameters such as size, color, type, age or rights to further use. The offer is quite wide and except Map a Shopping you can also search for videos, books, news and other specific content, most of which you can find more advanced parameters.

A less well-known and frequently used search aid is then wildcards. With their help, it is possible to achieve, for example, a refinement of the results found or, on the contrary, to systematically exclude certain ones. There is also a solution for those frequent cases where you cannot remember a certain part of the query. Thus, quotation marks are among the most useful. It's not a one-size-fits-all solution, but it can often make search results much clearer. For example, if you're looking for a Samsung S23 Ultra and you'd really like to limit your search to just this model, just enclose the query in quotation marks and write "Samsung S23 Ultra".

If you need to omit a part from the search query or simply do not remember it, proverbs or movie quotes can work as a great example, just write an asterisk in place of the given word. Can't remember the first word of Arnold Schwarzenegger's famous line from the iconic Terminator 2? Just type * la vista, baby! Google will search the options, complete the query with the most likely option and display the output.

It can also be quite useful minus sign. Let's say you're considering learning a foreign language. But you're sure it won't be French. Maybe because it doesn't sound nice to you or you already know French. Then just turn to Google with a question such as language courses Olomouc - French. You will see various offers to study in addition to the mentioned Romance language. Google search is really quite a powerful tool. Perhaps these few simple tips will help you in your search or make it more precise and faster.

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