Most Software engineers ranging from junior level to the super senior level all have one thing in common and that is to spend more than 60% of their time googling around for things that have already been done 100s of times.
Today, I will be giving you 5 tips using which you can spend a lot less time googling around for specific stuff and instead use that time to ship some features (which I know you have been on procrastinating for a while).
Stay Tuned to know how you can improve your Googling Ability.
1. Searching for a Exact Word on Google
Say you want to learn more about the Sequelize ORM for Node.JS, you simply have to google using the below query in the search bar to get the specific results you need.
"sequelize" sql orm node.js
2. Looking for Results from a specific website
Let's assume you want to learn more about closures for example in javascript and you only want the search results to be from a very specific website like javascript.info in this case, the way you do it is using the "site:" keyword.
what are closures site:javascript.info
3. Getting Results Before/After a Particular Year
Many parts of a library or framework keep changing from time to time and to make sure that you are getting the latest information, use the "After" keyword whenever you google along with the year. The same syntax applies to the before keyword too.
react router after:2020
Note : You can also get the results between 2 particular years using ".." For example, the below code returns the search results only between the years "2016" and "2020".
react router 2016..2021
P.S. Notice the dates below the search results.
4. Searching for Specific Type of Files
By entering the extension of a file which you need specifically like say you need the research paper written about Bitcoin by Satoshi Nakamoto, the way you google it is like this,
bitcoin filetype:pdf
5. Finding all SubDomains of a Website
site:*google.com
I hope you guys liked these neat tricks. Make sure to implement them to utilize your time in a much more efficient manner.
That's it from my side. Hope you folks have a great day!