Better Google Searches

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MaryC

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I've recently learned a couple of ways to perform searches in Google that produce better search results and I'd like to share them with you.

1. Put your search query in quotes, this is especially nice if your search query contains more than one word. For example a search query "movie theatre" will return results about movie theatres first instead of mixing info about movies and theatres and movie theaters together. You can find the information you're looking for much faster.

2. Use the + sign. Let's say you're looking for information about BraddPitt. Into your search query type: Brad Pitt +news, or Brad Pitt +movies, Brad Pitt + articles or Brad Pitt +forum, you get the idea.

Hope these tips help make your browsing experience more rewarding.

Mary
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I remeber the days when I was a google newbie and the I learnt the search syntax. :D Know I can find just about anything.

P.S. Once, I used to think that ASK Jeeves was the best search engine hehehe
 
You can also do the minus feature for searching... "Brad Pitt -dog" would do a search for anything with brad pitt, but would take out anything about a dog (pitt bull).. Very nifty when your searching for somthing specific.
 
the calculator feature comes in handy.... let's say you want to know how many gigs you have for like 496 megs of ram. you type "496 mB= ? gB" or maybe it's Mb Gb. All you have to know is the symbols and one of the amounts.
 
Use the + sign. Let's say you're looking for information about BraddPitt. Into your search query type: Brad Pitt +news, or Brad Pitt +movies, Brad Pitt + articles or Brad Pitt +forum, you get the idea.
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This doesnt actually have that much effect, google explains the operator as:

Google ignores common words and characters such as where, the, how, and other digits and letters which slow down your search without improving the results. We'll indicate if a word has been excluded by displaying details on the results page below the search box.

If a common word is essential to getting the results you want, you can include it by putting a "+" sign in front of it. (Be sure to include a space before the "+" sign.)
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so it only really any good if you using the common words that google filters out.

BUT here are some very usefull tips for searching with google, very very useful

site:

If you include [site:] in your query, Google will restrict the results to those websites in the given domain. For instance, [help site:www.google.com] will find pages about help within www.google.com. [help site:com] will find pages about help within .com urls. Note there can be no space between the "site:" and the domain.

allintitle:

If you start a query with [allintitle:], Google will restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the title. For instance, [allintitle: google search] will return only documents that have both "google" and "search" in the title.

intitle:

If you include [intitle:] in your query, Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the title. For instance, [intitle:google search] will return documents that mention the word "google" in their title, and mention the word "search" anywhere in the document (title or no). Note there can be no space between the "intitle:" and the following word.

Putting [intitle:] in front of every word in your query is equivalent to putting [allintitle:] at the front of your query: [intitle:google intitle:search] is the same as [allintitle: google search].

allinurl:

If you start a query with [allinurl:], Google will restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the url. For instance, [allinurl: google search] will return only documents that have both "google" and "search" in the url.

Note that [allinurl:] works on words, not url components. In particular, it ignores punctuation. Thus, [allinurl: foo/bar] will restrict the results to page with the words "foo" and "bar" in the url, but won't require that they be separated by a slash within that url, that they be adjacent, or that they be in that particular word order. There is currently no way to enforce these constraints.

inurl:

If you include [inurl:] in your query, Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the url. For instance, [inurl:google search] will return documents that mention the word "google" in their url, and mention the word "search" anywhere in the document (url or no). Note there can be no space between the "inurl:" and the following word.

Putting "inurl:" in front of every word in your query is equivalent to putting "allinurl:" at the front of your query: [inurl:google inurl:search] is the same as [allinurl: google search].
 
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