Just got a handy tip through from a newsletter I subscribe to called Recomendo:
"By adding "udm=14" to your Google search URL, you can strip away all the AI summaries, knowledge panels, and ads that clutter results. This doesn't improve the actual search results, but it provides a cleaner, distraction-free interface reminiscent of Google's early days."
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Some Sunday reading. Yes, it's a Substack, but the content is useful. Lots of tips and reminders in one place. Decided to copy over the whole thing so you don't need to give SS any more clicks. (Under cut.)
40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framewo
Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.
40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.
Hana Lee Goldin, MLIS
Feb 24, 2026
Most of us search Google the same way we always have: type a few words, scroll, click something that looks close enough, and hope. For a while, that worked. Google handed us a list of links and let us take it from there.
Whatās happening now is something different. AĀ 2024 study by SparkToroĀ found that nearly 60% of Google searches end without anyone clicking through to a website, and the trend has accelerated since. By February 2026, Ahrefs found thatĀ queries triggering AI Overviews now see a 58% reductionĀ in clicks. Google has been systematically inserting itself between you and the original source, answering questions with AI-generated summaries before you ever reach the page those answers came from. The results youĀ doĀ see are filtered through an algorithm that weighs your search history, your location, and the billions of dollars advertisers have spent to appear for particular queries. Two people searching identical phrases on the same day can get meaningfully different results without either of them knowing it. And becauseĀ Google controls roughly 90% of the worldās search traffic, most people have no frame of reference for what a less mediated search experience would even look like.
The search bar replaced the reference desk without replacing the skills behind it: knowing how to ask a question precisely, understanding how information is organized and who funds it, knowing the difference between a primary source and a summary of one. The assumption was that the technology made all of that unnecessary, which suited Google; a user who canāt navigate information independently is a user who keeps coming back to be guided.
The search bar you already have is more capable than that arrangement requires you to know. With the right syntax, it becomes a precision instrument: narrow by domain, by date, by file type, by exact phrase. We can pull up archived pages, surface open file directories, and even find what people said in forums instead of what brands want us to find. None of it requires a new tool or a paid account. The capability has been there the whole time.
Librarians donāt just help you find information. We help you know what to do with it once you have it. Card Catalog applies that same expertise to the age of AI and information overload.
When Youāre Not Getting What You Asked For
Google is constantly interpreting you. It swaps in synonyms, personalizes results based on your history, and decides what youĀ probablyĀ meant rather than returning what you typed. Most of the time that interpretation is invisible. These tools are how you override it.
site:
limits your search to a single website. Try:Ā site:nytimes.com climateĀ to search only the Times, orĀ site:gov vaccineĀ to pull results exclusively from government domains. It works as a better version of a websiteās own search function (most built-in site search is mediocre at best), as a trust filter when you only want results from a specific domain type, and as a research shortcut when you already know which publication or institution you want to pull from. You can also run it in reverse:Ā electric vehicles -site:tesla.comĀ returns coverage thatĀ isnātĀ from Teslaās own pages.
Number ranges
let you set hard boundaries on any numerical search. Put two periods between two numbers with no spaces:Ā laptop $500..$800Ā returns results mentioning prices in that range. The same syntax works for years (civil rights legislation 1964..1968) or any other measurement. It eliminates a significant amount of irrelevant results when youāre comparison shopping or trying to find coverage from a specific period.
Verbatim mode
is the most powerful feature most people have never used. After any search, clickĀ ToolsĀ (just below the search bar), then theĀ āAll ResultsāĀ dropdown, then selectĀ āVerbatim.ā
Google stops paraphrasing you entirely and returns results for exactly what you typed, stripped of personalization and synonym-swapping. Itās one of the most useful things Google has buried several clicks deep, and the fact that it takes three clicks to reach says something about how much Google wants you to find it.
Quotation marks
work the same way at the phrase level. Try:Ā āthe medium is the messageā.Ā Wrapping a phrase in quotation marks forces Google to find pages where those exact words appear in that exact order. Unquoted words are treated as suggestions; quoted phrases are treated as requirements. Use this to verify whether a quote is real and trace it to its actual source, to find a specific statistic rather than everything that implies it, or to track down a title you half-remember. Itās also the mechanism behind one of the most useful social search techniques covered below.
The minus sign
removes a word from your results entirely. Put it directly before the word with no space:Ā jaguar -carĀ returns the animal,Ā mercury -planetĀ returns the element or the musician depending on your other terms. Precise, effective, and useful any time a word youāre searching carries more than one meaning.
AROUND(#)
is an undocumented proximity operator that tells Google how many words apart your two search terms can be. Try:Ā climate AROUND(3) policy.Ā The intent is that only pages where those terms appear in genuine proximity show up, rather than a page that mentions āclimateā in the introduction and āpolicyā ten paragraphs later. Google has never officially documented this operator and its behavior is inconsistent, but when it works, it operates closer to how academic databases have functioned for decades. Worth testing, but not something to rely on the way you would a documented operator.
When You Need the Real Source, Not Just a Summary
The difference between finding a blog post about a study and finding the study itself isnāt trivial, and the gap between them is larger than most people expect.
filetype:
returns only a specific kind of file.Ā filetype:pdf remote work productivityĀ returns only PDFs. SwapĀ pdfĀ forĀ pptĀ to find slide decks, orĀ docĀ for Word documents. Most research reports, government documents, academic papers, and white papers exist as PDFs and donāt rank highly in regular search results because they werenāt built for traffic. Filetype search gets you past that.
intitle: āindex ofā
surfaces something most people donāt know exists: open file directories on the internet. Try:Ā intitle: āindex ofā /pdf āmedia literacyā
These are servers running with directory listing enabled, a default setting in Apache that displays all files in a directory when no index page exists. Most administrators never turned it off. The result is publicly accessible file systems, packed with documents, datasets, and files that donāt appear in regular search results.
before: and after:
set a date boundary on your results.Ā mental health social media research after:2023Ā filters out everything published before that year. UseĀ before:Ā to find what was known or written at a particular point in time, useful for confirming a source predates an event or for tracing how a conversation has shifted over time. Combine them withĀ site:Ā for a targeted archive search:Ā site:theatlantic.com AI after:2023Ā pulls everything The Atlantic has published on the subject in the past two years. This kind of search used to require a library database subscription.
intitle: and inurl:
let you filter by the structure of a page rather than just its content.Ā intitle:āmedia literacyāĀ returns only pages where that phrase appears in the actual title, not just mentioned once in passing.Ā inurl:gov intitle:āAI policyāĀ finds government pages where AI policy is the stated subject. Combined, theyāre considerably more precise than keyword searching alone.
When You Want Real Human Opinions, Not Sponsored Content
SEO has made the first page of Google results increasingly dominated by content written to rank rather than to inform. These techniques route around it.
ācan anyone recommendā
exploits a quirk in how people write when theyāre asking for help without a commercial motive. Try:Ā ācan anyone recommendā noise-canceling headphones under $100.Ā Because the phrase is in quotation marks, Google surfaces only pages where those exact words appear, which means forum threads, community posts, and real conversations where people asked the same question youāre asking. Instead of a sponsored listicle, you get someoneās firsthand experience choosing between two specific products. Swap inĀ ādoes anyone know a goodāĀ orĀ āwhatās the bestāĀ for variations on the same trick.
@ before a word
surfaces social tags and handles in your results. Try:Ā @reddit home espresso machine.Ā Google officially describes this as a tool for finding social tags, so pairing it with a platform name like @reddit or @twitter alongside your topic pulls community discussions toward the top of your results. It doesnāt filter exclusively to those platforms, but it shifts the result set in that direction. Combine it with the quotation mark technique when you want to narrow things further.
The omitted results link
is easy to miss. When Google adds a note at the bottom of a results page saying some results were hidden because theyāre too similar to others, thereās a small link to include them anyway. The results Google omits tend to be less trafficked and less search-optimized, which frequently means theyāre more substantive and written for readers rather than algorithms. When doing real research rather than a quick lookup, thatās exactly where to look.
When You Need to Go Deeper
The asteriskĀ *
works as a wildcard for any missing word or phrase. Try:Ā āthe * of artificial intelligenceā.Ā The asterisk stands in for whatever word you canāt remember or want to explore. Itās invaluable for chasing down half-remembered titles and quotes, and it surfaces the full range of ways a phrase gets used across different contexts, which is useful for research that starts from a concept rather than a specific source.
Stacking operators
is where precision compounds.Ā filetype:pdf āinformation literacyā site:edu before:2015Ā finds older academic PDFs on the topic from university domains.Ā site:cdc.gov after:2022 -press releaseĀ pulls recent CDC content with press releases filtered out. The combinations are where the real power lives, and once youāve internalized a few operators separately, combining them becomes instinctive.
When You Just Need a Fast Answer
Many of Googleās most useful features are things youād only find by accident, because nothing in the interface tells you they exist. These all work by typing directly into the search bar.
Paste a flight number
likeĀ UA 2157Ā and Google returns the live gate, departure and arrival times, current delay status, and a real-time position tracker without opening an app or an airline website. This works for any major commercial flight. If youāre picking someone up, itās considerably faster than anything the airline itself offers.
Paste any package tracking number
and Google recognizes the format automatically, whether itās UPS, FedEx, or USPS, and shows live delivery status directly on the results page. If youāve been opening carrier websites every time you get a shipping confirmation, you didnāt need to be.
TypeĀ run speed test
and Google measures your download and upload speed directly in the browser, without sending you to a third-party site like Speedtest.net. When youāre troubleshooting a slow connection and donāt want to open another tab, itās the fastest option.
TypeĀ [thing] vs. [thing]
likeĀ oat milk vs almond milk, Notion vs Obsidian, ibuprofen vs acetaminophen,Ā and Google pulls a side-by-side comparison panel with key differences. It works for supplements, software, ingredients, and medications. Itās not always exhaustive, but itās faster than opening five tabs to piece together the same information.
A few more that show up less in guides but earn their place:
define: [word]Ā returns the full dictionary definition plus etymology
how to pronounce [word]Ā gives you an audio button and phonetic spelling
[food] caloriesĀ brings up nutritional information without leaving the search bar
sunrise [city]Ā orĀ sunset [city]Ā gives you exact times
time in [city]Ā shows current local time anywhere in the world
[amount] [currency] to [currency]Ā pulls a live exchange rate
stock [ticker]Ā shows a live price chart with trading volume
tip for $[amount]Ā opens a tip calculator you can adjust by percentage and split by number of people
translate [phrase] to [language]Ā opens a full translation widget with audio pronunciation
what is my IPĀ returns your IP address immediately
random number between [X] and [Y]Ā generates one instantly
color pickerĀ opens an interactive color wheel with hex and RGB codes in the results page itself
timer 25 minutesĀ starts a countdown without leaving Google
metronomeĀ opens a working, adjustable metronome
bubble levelĀ uses your phoneās gyroscope as an actual level
breathing exerciseĀ guides you through a timed breath pattern
what sound does a [animal] makeĀ plays the actual audio
flip a coinĀ andĀ roll a dieĀ both work exactly as described
Any math equation typed into the search bar is solved immediately
Google also has a full arcade buried in the results page. SearchingĀ solitaire,Ā tic-tac-toe,Ā snake, orĀ pac-manĀ opens a playable game directly, no app or third-party site required. Most people have scrolled past these results for years without realizing they were interactive. And two Easter eggs that have been there since at least 2011 and still work:Ā do a barrel rollĀ spins the entire results page 360 degrees, andĀ askewĀ tilts it just enough that people think something is wrong with their screen.
One more that matters for anyone who makes content: after any image search, clickĀ Tools > Usage RightsĀ and filter to show only images licensed for reuse. The feature is two clicks deep, most people who need it regularly donāt know it exists, and using an unlicensed image because you didnāt check is a more common mistake than it should be.
What Not to Do
These are the habits that undermine searches most often, and most of them are so ingrained they feel like standard practice.
Donāt treat the AI Overview as the answer.
The AI-generated summary at the top of many Google results is the feature most likely to be wrong and most likely to present that wrongness with complete confidence. Since Google launched AI Overviews in May 2024, documented errors have included advising users to add glue to pizza, recommending that people eat one small rock per day, producing a response claiming Barack Obama was the United Statesā first Muslim president (drawn from an academic book title that Googleās system misread as a factual claim), and, in May 2025, insisting across multiple queries that the current year was 2024. These arenāt edge cases. They reflect a structural problem with how the feature works: it synthesizes answers from sources you canāt always see, using a system that can misread context, miss sarcasm, and draw incorrect conclusions from factually correct sources. If the AI Overview touches anything consequential, check the sources beneath it.
Donāt click the first result without checking whether itās an ad.
Google labels paid results, but the labels have grown smaller and less visually distinct over time. The first two or three results on many searches are sponsored placements, meaning companies paid to appear there rather than earning their position organically. A business with a large advertising budget can outrank a more authoritative source on nearly any commercial query. Check for the small āSponsoredā label before assuming whatās at the top is whatās most credible.
Donāt assume your results are the same as anyone elseās.
Google personalizes results based on your search history, location, device, and account data. Two people searching the same phrase can get meaningfully different pages in meaningfully different orders without either of them knowing it. When research matters, Verbatim mode or a private/incognito window removes some of that personalization layer.
Donāt use quotation marks on everything.
Quotation marks are precise when you need an exact phrase, but applying them to every search narrows your results so sharply that youāll miss pages that would have been directly useful. If youāre not searching for a specific verbatim phrase, leave the quotes off.
Donāt add a space after an operator.
Purely mechanical, but it kills the function entirely.Ā site:cdc.govĀ works;Ā site: cdc.govĀ does not. The operator and the term have to run together with no space between them.
Donāt just Google it when the stakes are real.
Most people use Google the same way for everything, whether theyāre looking for a restaurant or trying to understand a diagnosis, a medication interaction, a contract clause, or a financial decision. That habit works fine for low-stakes questions, but for anything with real consequences, Googleās results, and especially its AI Overviews, are a place to find sources, not a destination. AĀ Guardian investigation in January 2026Ā found multiple AI-generated health summaries that medical professionals flagged as dangerous, including dietary advice for pancreatic cancer patients that Anna Jewell, director of support, research and influencing at Pancreatic Cancer UK, said could ājeopardize a personās chances of being well enough to have treatment.ā Google is often the fastest way to figure out where to look. Treating it as the place to stop is where the trouble starts.
Beyond Google: You Have Options
Knowing when to use a different tool is part of knowing any tool well. Treating one resource as the default regardless of the question is a habit, and like most habits, it runs below the level of conscious choice.
Google is where most people search, and learning to use it well is worth doing. ButĀ Alphabet, Googleās parent company, reported $350 billion in total revenueĀ in 2024, with advertising accounting for more than three-quarters of that, according to the companyās own annual filing.Ā The results Google shows you are shaped by that business model in ways that arenāt always visible. Its algorithm promotes pages built to rank, which isnāt the same as pages built to inform.Ā Its AI summaries synthesize answers from sources you often canāt see, which makes it harder to evaluate whether the underlying information is reliable. And because it personalizes results based on your history, two people searching the same phrase on the same day can land in meaningfully different places. Understanding that context changes what you should reasonably expect from a Google search, and knowing what else is available changes what you do when Google isnāt the right tool for the question.
If the problem is structural ā that Google's incentives and your interests don't always point in the same direction ā then having alternatives isn't about distrust. It's about knowing which tool fits the question. These eight work differently, in ways that are worth understanding before you need them.
KagiĀ is a paid search engine with no advertising and no sponsored results. Plans start at $5 a month for 300 searches or $10 a month for unlimited. Youāre paying directly for the service rather than trading your attention for access, which changes the underlying incentives entirely. Its results tend toward fewer SEO-optimized pages and more original sources, a difference most noticeable when the quality of information matters more than the speed of finding it.
DuckDuckGoĀ is free, doesnāt track your searches, and supports all the operators covered above. It also has a feature called !bangs: typeĀ !wĀ before any search to go straight to Wikipedia, orĀ !scholarĀ for Google Scholar. It turns the search bar into a shortcut launcher for wherever you want to land, without a company logging where that is.
Brave SearchĀ is free and privacy-focused, and unlike most alternatives, it runs its own independent search index rather than licensing results from Google or Bing. Most privacy-focused search engines are Bing with a different coat of paint; Brave is the meaningful exception.
StartpageĀ is free and returns Googleās actual results without Googleās tracking. It works as a private intermediary, submitting your query to Google anonymously and returning results without storing your IP address, search history, or any identifying data. If youāve tried the other alternatives and find the results weaker than you want, Startpage resolves that without sending your data to Google directly.Ā One thing worth knowing going in: Startpage is owned by System1, a U.S. advertising company, which it discloses openly and says does not affect its no-tracking policy.
PerplexityĀ is AI-powered and built for research questions. It gives you a synthesized answer with sources cited directly alongside it, so you can see exactly where the information came from and evaluate it yourself. For questions where you want a starting point with visible sourcing rather than a list of links to sort through, itās often faster and more transparent than a traditional search.
BingĀ is Microsoftās search engine and the second largest in the world by traffic, which makes it the most overlooked real alternative to Google. Itās ad-supported and tracks your searches, so it doesnāt solve the privacy problem ā but it runs an entirely different index, which means different results, and that alone is worth knowing. For image search and video itās often stronger than Google. Itās also the engine powering Microsoftās Copilot, which gives you AI-generated answers with sourcing in the same way Perplexity does. If a Google search isnāt surfacing what you need, running the same query on Bing takes ten seconds and frequently produces something Google buried or missed entirely.
EcosiaĀ is ad-supported and runs on Bingās index, so the results are comparable to Bing rather than Google. Whatās different is what happens to the money: Ecosia is a certified B Corp that directs the majority of its advertising revenue toward reforestation projects and publishes monthly financial reports so you can verify it. It wonāt give you stronger results than the alternatives above, but for someone whose searches are already going to generate ad revenue for someone, Ecosia redirects that toward something. Itās a light switch, not a lifestyle change ā but itās a real one.
Library databasesĀ are the option most people forget they already have. A public library card ā free in most cities ā gives you access to databases like ProQuest, EBSCOhost, and JSTOR that the open web simply cannot replicate. These index academic journals, historical newspapers, court documents, company filings, and primary sources that were never designed for Google to crawl and never will be. If youāve been hitting paywalls on research that matters, this is how you get past them without paying. Check your libraryās website for remote access instructions; most let you log in from home with your card number.
The Skill Nobody Told You Youād Need
There used to be a professional layer between most people and raw information. Librarians, researchers, editors, fact-checkers: people whose entire job was to understand how information was organized, who produced it, what motivated them, and where the gaps were in any given source. You didnāt need to think much about any of that, because someone else already had.
That layer has largely dissolved. Search engines replaced the card catalog, algorithms replaced the reference interview, and AI summaries are now stepping in where a librarianās judgment about source quality used to sit. Whatās been left in place of all that professional mediation is a search bar and the assumption that youāll figure it out.
The tools above don't fix that problem, but they change your position within it. Every technique here is a version of the same underlying move: being specific about what you need and deliberate about where to look for it. Most people were never taught to approach search that way, because the assumption has always been that it's simple enough not to need teaching. But the same move works everywhere information is organized: library catalogs, academic databases, legal repositories, government archives.
Search syntax is just the entry point. What's underneath it is a way of thinking about how knowledge is structured and who controls access to it ā and that transfers to every tool you'll use after this one.
This post is an additional resource to our Fic Finding Tips post, this time focused on using Google to find your lost fics!
For the best results when using Google, it really helps if you know which site you read the fic on. You can search for webpages from that site containing unique words and phrases using site search and quotation marks.
For ao3 fics, use this to begin your Google search: site:archiveofourown .org "draco malfoy/harry potter" (delete the space before .org, .net, or .com for any of the search examples in this post) Then add quotes, words, and phrases in quotation marks to narrow things down. Keep in mind that each chapter of a multi-chaptered fic is it's own webpage, so you'll want to search for specific details that would show up in the same chapter. For example, we received a request describing Draco having a T (for traitor) carved over his dark mark during the Battle of Hogwarts while he was helping to search for Ravenclaw's Diadem. We found it by googling site:archiveofourown .org "draco malfoy/harry potter" "traitor" "dark mark" "diadem". This search brought up Chapter 3 where this scene takes place, but if we had included a detail from Chapter 1 ("motorbike", for Hagrid's motorbike) it would have excluded the webpage we wanted to find.
Google site searching is most helpful when you have really specific details that are not going to be in the tags or fic summary, meaning the ao3 search feature is nearly useless with the information you have. Another example is a request we received describing Veela!Draco being protective of Harry at a picnic with their friends. You can do a search on ao3 with Veela Draco and Picnics tags, but nothing would come up. We found the correct fic by googling site:archiveofourown .org "draco malfoy/harry potter" "veela" "picnic".
This method works with FFN fics as well, with this Google search: site:fanfiction .net "Draco M., Harry P." Be aware that including the pairing in quotations will not always exclude other pairings and you will probably see plenty of Draco/Hermione FFN fics show up in your search too (and others pairings, but Dramione being popular will mean you'll see that one most often).
You can also use this method with LJ, but the pairing description may vary from fic to fic. Itās sometimes listed as HPDM, Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter, draco x harry, Drarry, or just Draco/Harry. You may want to just put their names separately in quotes (site:livejournal .com ādracoā āharryā).
With any of these sites, remember to try different combinations of words and phrases! Get creative with your searching and try your best to remember unique details. Even adding simple words such as ābeetleā, āChristmasā, or āBurrowā will narrow things down a great deal. Include reoccurring characters as well (āLunaā āBlaiseā āPansyā etc.), and if you can remember the name of an OC that information is extremely useful. Including Ron or Hermione doesnāt always do much, since they are often a staple of Drarry fanfics. But if youāre looking for a certain scene they are a part of, it wouldnāt hurt to include them. Keep in mind that Draco POV fics might refer to them as āGrangerā and āWeasleyā though! It can get tricky the more details you include, but too few details will result in too many webpages to skim through.
The key to a successful fic find on Google is usually combining multiple common words (āhealerā āclassroomā āportkeyā), or remembering unique words and phrases you can recall being quoted exactly (āastral projectionā, āorphanageā, āclimbed over the fenceā, āthings changeā, āMasudi the catā).
Last but not least, when looking through a page of search results itās usually best to skip over webpages that are just featuring tags:
Instead, focus on the webpages of fics and fic chapters. Google will often show a passage from the fic containing one or more of the words you have put in quotations. You can sometimes tell immediately whether or not the story fits depending on the context:
Good luck, we hope you find the fic youāre looking for! Feel free to reply to this post if you have any questions, need clarification, or have more tips we couldnāt think of. Happy finding!
I donāt know if everyone knows this but there are tricks to google search that can help you make searching easier. If any of you remember the post about searching for big bird (if I can find it Iāll link it and reblog it) where they wanted a big bird and not Big Bird. But everytime they put more words into the search Heād always be there? Watching and being sad?
Well let me show you how these little tricks can make the process way easier.
And because this will be kinda longā¦
Well letās just type big bird first
Well shitā¦thatās not what we want
Now if we use the minus (-) we can remove things we donāt want soo -sesame and -yellow
Awww sweet big birds. Thereās other tricks too like using āquotation marksā to make sure the google results use whatās in them. Cause sometimes youāre trying to search something and one of the words is super important and google will be like ānah, you didnāt mean that word right?ā The quotations is like grabbing google by the throat and saying āI did you dumb fuckā
Thereās the star* that can just make it random like in this example
Thereās others but I usually use the minus and quotations the most.
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First of all, if you search your blog for a tag and get zero results where you know there should be several, your posts with that tag probably havenāt been deleted; theyāre just blocked from all tumblr searches including your own search function on your own blog.
So, with tumblr being super messed up and not letting us search our own blogs for certain tags anymore, here's a quick reminder that you can use Google to search your blog instead. It'll bypass tumblr's restrictions.
It's not perfect because it searches the body of posts as well as the tags, but it might help you find specific posts of yours and you can get pretty specific with the keywords to narrow down results.
To do this, just go to google and in the search box type:
site:[your tumblr URL] keyword keyword keyword
(without the brackets, using as many or as few keywords as you like). You can still use whatever Boolean search parameters you want in the keyword section - so like quotes and minus signs for specific results should still work.
You might get some wacky results in there, but until tumblr unfucks itself, this is a decent workaround to find old posts of yours (or of someone elseās).
CAVEAT: Your blog must have the āhide from search resultsā features turned off (under Settings > Visibility) in order for this to work
Iām sure you know what Google Drive is. Itās like your desktop on Google, your Dropbox or your Mega account all-in-one. Personally, Iām not a big fan of Google (I use Mozilla Firefoz and Bing) but this time itās different.
Pros:
You have everything on any device youāre using.
Itās simple and easy to use.
You can also use Google Docs, or the Google PowerPoint and Excel combined with it.
Google Docs/PPT/Excel are also simple and manageable.
Itās abalivable on PC too.
Itās sync with Google Photos.
Cons:
It has a limit of storage.
Why do I like it?
Well, Iām sorry if this doesnāt help you very much, but my High School has a relationship with GoogleTM and we have illimited storage so I can have like a hundred Terabytes of information right there. So, make sure if your Google acc has some kind of benefits so you can know what can you do. Itās very useful.