Did you know that the following list of words is often ignored by the search engine anytime they are included in your search phrase? “a, about, an, and, are, as, at, be, by, from, how, I, in, is, it, of, on, or, that, the this, to, we, what, when, where, which, with” (These are known as stop words). The Google search engine has its own way around simple word searches, as above. Basic search techniques Simple word searchesīasic Google searches consist of one or more words entered without any quotations or the use of special keywords.