--- title: "Tip of the Week: Specifying Your Google Queries - Blogs on IT Support and Cybersecurity for Small Business" description: "Improving Your Google Queries - If you want to tell Google to omit certain potential results from your search, you can use the hyphen/subtraction mark to define what you don’t want considered." url: "https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/tip-of-the-week-specifying-your-google-queries" date: "2026-06-07T08:45:07+00:00" language: "en-GB" --- ## Blogs on IT Support and Cybersecurity for Small Business Insights on cybersecurity, AI, and IT strategy to help business leaders reduce risk, improve performance, and make better technology decisions. [ Categories ](https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/categories "Categories") [ Tags ](https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/tags "Tags") [ Categories: All Categories ](https://colemantechnologies.com/javascript:void(0); "Categories") Search...Suggested keywords [ x ](https://colemantechnologies.com/javascript:void(0);) # Tip of the Week: Specifying Your Google Queries [Coleman Technologies Blog](https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/categories/blog) [Tip of the Week](https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/categories/tip-of-the-week) [Coleman Technologies Admin](https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/blogger/darren-coleman) Wednesday, 19 August 2020 ## Improving Your Google Queries ### - If you want to tell Google to omit certain potential results from your search, you can use the hyphen/subtraction mark to define what you don’t want considered. For example, if you were in the market for improved seating for your workplace, you could search for computer chairs and eliminate any designed for gaming purposes by searching for **computer chair -gaming**. ### () Adding a parenthetical allows you to set a prerequisite for your search results. Basically, by including a term in parenthesis, you’re instructing Google to only return results for the rest of the search if they relate to that term. So, if you were specifically looking for [IT services](https://www.colemantechnologies.com/it-services/ "IT services") around AREASERVED, you could type in **(IT services) AREASERVED**. Of course, by being on our blog, you’ve pretty much skipped that step, already! ### site: Let’s say that you were looking for something that you were confident that you could find on a specific website. Perhaps you had even found it before but hadn’t been able to locate it again since. Adding the site tag into your Google search instructs Google to zero in on a particular website as it looks for your search term. So, let’s say you wanted to know more about business continuity. To find that information, you could input **business continuity site: COMPANYWEBSITEURL**. Google will promptly deliver the links you’re looking for. ### filetype: Maybe you’re looking for a specific kind of file, like a JPEG or a PDF. Inputting your search terms and adding **filetype:jpeg** or **filetype:pdf** will only produce results that feature the designated file format. intext: Have you ever encountered one of those moments where you can remember an exact quote from somewhere, but you can’t remember where you read it to save your life? Google offers a feature that can work with that. Searching for **intext:**, followed by that particular phrase, will instruct Google to look at in-page text to find it. Which of these Google tricks were new to you? Are there any that you see being particularly useful? Make sure you subscribe to our blog for more handy tips, and for any of your specific IT support and service needs, give COMPANYNAME a call at PHONENUMBER. [ ](https://colemantechnologies.com/javascript:void(0);) [ ](https://colemantechnologies.com/javascript:void(0);) [ ](https://colemantechnologies.com/javascript:void(0);) Tags: [Google](https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/tags/google) [Internet](https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/tags/internet) [Tip of the Week](https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/tags/tip-of-the-week) [×](https://colemantechnologies.com/javascript:void(0);) Stay Informed When you subscribe to the blog, we will send you an e-mail when there are new updates on the site so you wouldn't miss them. Your Name E-mail Address [ Create a Comprehensive Mobile Policy ](https://colemantechnologies.com/newsletter-content/create-a-comprehensive-mobile-policy) [ How to Set the Tone for Workplace Collaboration ](https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/how-to-set-the-tone-for-workplace-collaboration) About the author [ ![Coleman Technologies Admin](https://colemantechnologies.com/media/com_easyblog/images/avatars/author.png) ](https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/blogger/darren-coleman) [Coleman Technologies Admin](https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/blogger/darren-coleman) [ ](https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/blogger/darren-coleman) Author's recent posts [More posts from author](https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/blogger/darren-coleman) [ Tuesday, 05 May 2026 Darren Coleman Featured in Boss Today on AI Literacy and Human Judgment ](https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/darren-coleman-bosstoday-ai-literacy) [ Monday, 06 April 2026 How Cloud IT Services Are Transforming Business Continuity ](https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/how-cloud-it-services-are-transforming-business-continuity) [ Monday, 06 April 2026 Darren Coleman Featured in USAWire on Why Businesses Need an AI Strategy ](https://colemantechnologies.com/news-a-events/darren-coleman-usawire-ai-strategy) ## Schema ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://colemantechnologies.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Blog", "item": "https://colemantechnologies.com/blog" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Coleman Technologies Admin", "item": "https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/blogger/darren-coleman" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Tip of the Week: Specifying Your Google Queries", "item": "https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/tip-of-the-week-specifying-your-google-queries" } ] } ```