Search engine tricks that find things faster

These work on Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo:

• "exact phrase" in quotes finds only that exact wording.
• -word leaves out results with that word. Example: jaguar -car
• site:reddit.com searches inside one site only.
• filetype:pdf finds PDFs, handy for manuals and reports.
• before:2020 or after:2023 limits results by date (Google).

Combine them: "error 0x80070005" site:microsoft.com

And if you're stuck on an error message, paste the exact message in quotes. Someone has almost always had it before.