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How To Google Any Steam Guides
By tosac and 1 collaborators
This guide will give you an explanation, on how to find guides by googling them.
This is helpful if you have lost a guide, and you want to find it again.
   
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Introduction



Credits to Psychedelic Adventurer for creating the artwork.

This guide will explain to you, how to search for any steam created guide, by searching for them, in any search engine. But It works best with googles.

This method is great for when, you have lost a guide, wants to find a guide or finding steam's most popular guides. In a nutshell, everything related to steam guides.

Ones you have learned how this search filter works, you will be able to find guides faster.
How search engines work
Google's and many others search engines works as mentioned in the video below.
(This video is not too important, but it's good those whom is curious.)
Explanation of the mechanics
Now that you have seen the video, and have got an understanding on how search engines works. You should be good to go

By inserting "Steam Community :: Guide ::" into the search tab, Google will start searching for sites which have got the following line or words in it. Sites which have got it in the title are the ones with must focus. The more popular websites shows up on the front page
Because guides belong to the Steam community, it looks for sites with "Steam Community" in the title. Then "Guides." Just like shown on the image below.


You are always able to search for guides under game hubs or gamer tags, simply by putting the games name or steam tag in front of the text. Examples shown below.
Game hub


Gamer tag/Steam name
How to find a specific guide
This method is also great for finding a specific guide
Let's say you're trying to find this guide for instance
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=734919581

Start off by typing "Steam Community :: Guide ::" in the search tab. Then write "Skyrim" in front of the other text. This will start searching for Steam guides under Skyrims hub only.
Example shown in this image.


Because the specific guide is a wallpaper guide, simply write wallpaper, and it will pop op as the first site. The image below is an example.
7 Comments
tosac  [author] 14 Apr, 2017 @ 2:38pm 
@The vintage feeling
Thanks for the kind words, and as usually dropping by. It is much appreciated.
The vintage feeling 14 Apr, 2017 @ 2:23pm 
Very useful, Victor.
Thank you for posting it!
tosac  [author] 13 Apr, 2017 @ 1:12pm 
@Mr.Briggs
There is currently no known way of editing the URL throught the steam client.
You open a game and paste it into there (Ctrl+Shift.) This is a short cut, if you don't want to log in using a browser.
I would personaly sugguest, simply just loging in using the browser.

Please contact me if you have got fourther questions.
Briggs 12 Apr, 2017 @ 10:08am 
So i followed your advice and found a guide... but how do i use it, do i need to copy and paste this somewhere? o_O
tosac  [author] 10 Apr, 2017 @ 3:05am 
@Xaos
Thanks man, the support is obliged.
tosac  [author] 9 Apr, 2017 @ 10:23am 
@Jangolli
I am glad that the guide came helpful to you.
The support is much appreciated.
Atinla 9 Apr, 2017 @ 4:17am 
Thanks! Very helpful. ^^