Improve your web searches in Safari on Mac

Go to the Safari app 👁 Image
on your Mac.

Try these suggestions to get better search results:

• Be more specific: For example, searching for “Paris” returns results for any city with that name; searching for “Paris France” returns results only for that city.

• Search for an exact phrase: Use quotation marks to search for the whole phrase instead of each word in the phrase. If you’re looking for an article titled “How to wash a dog,” put quotation marks around the phrase.

• Exclude unwanted results: Try a negative search by subtracting words from your search. For example, searching for “paris -france” returns results about “paris” but excluding “france.”

Go to the Safari app 👁 Image
on your Mac.

Try these suggestions to get better search results:

• Omit common words: Search engines ignore small and common words; searching for “wash a dog,” “wash the dog,” and “wash dog” gets the same results.

• Ignore capitalization: Search engines treat “Paris France,” “paris France,” and “paris france” the same.

• Skip word endings: Search engines often drop word endings; you get the same results when you search for “wash dog” and “washing dog.”