share your google tips/tricks here

[Beyond]

personally, i'm curious how to search within a certain website with google. how do you do this?

 

[Dngrsone]

Use advanced search options and specify the website or domain you wish to search.

 

[dragon2309]

or search for something with the search criteria as

harddrive site:www.computerforum.com

this search criteria would find everything on www.comupterforunm.com with the word hard drive in it.

 

[Xycron]

Tips and tricks for google? Don't use it

 

[dragon2309]

Tips and tricks for google? Don't use it

And why would that be, its been proven that its algorithm for indexing has surpassed that of other rival search engines and its databse will only get bigger with time......

 

[Xycron]

A Bigger datebase means nothing. All I find is irrelevent results.

 

[elmarcorulz]

or search for something with the search criteria as

harddrive site:www.computerforum.com

this search criteria would find everything on www.comupterforunm.com with the word hard drive in it.

Wow, i never knew that. Thats pretty cool!

All I find is irrelevent results.

Then obviously your not doing a ufficient search

 

[Dngrsone]

I use several different engines, plus a couple of spiders for tough queries.

The key to getting good results is formulating the proper query. One can thin the results, eliminating false hits by subtracting words.

 

[cdfreelancer]

Tips and tricks for google? Don't use it

Prey tell, what do you use exactly? I'm always keen to learn a better way.

..And what's a spider? Doh!

Here's a good tip, if you don't know it already: If you're searching for and exact phrase such as 'new world order', place it in exclamation marks like this:

"new world order"

Google will then only find the exact phrase and will ignore all other webpages.

 

[stalex111]

Theres things like:
-"inurlwhatever your searching for)"
Ex: inurl:blabla.txt will bring up a web page who's url contains "password.txt"
-"intextwhatever your searching for)"
ex: intext:gmail invite ; intext:http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a
- If you put a "*"it replaces a word. one "*" per word.
Ex:"Too many cooks spoil **." Result: "Too many cooks spoil the broth."
-"siteurl of a site)" will stay in a certain site.
Ex: "site:http://www.computerforum.com hello" will search for "hello" in computer forum.
- "~"will search for synonyms.
Ex: ~tips google
-"+" will force google to search a word tht would be ignored because it is spelt like and, or, etc. ex: +OR Original Revew.
- "-" excludes a word from a search.
Ex: -windows -site:microsoft.com
-"linkurl of a site)" only searches within a group of sites that link to the site who's url is after "link:"ex: "link:http://www.miniclip.com tree" will only search for "tree" in sites that have links to miniclip.
-"relatedurl of a site)" will search sites that have subjects related to the site who's url you typed. ex: "related:www.computerforum.com" will search for other computer forums.
-"filetypefile extension)" will search all files which extension is the same as the one you put in the search. Ex: "filetype:.txt" will find .txt files.
-"intitleword)" will look for the word searched in the title of the site.
Ex: "intitle:london" will find all sites who's title contains the word london.
-"inanchorword)" will look sites who's links contain the word put after "inanchor". Ex: "inanchor:amsterdam" will look for a site who's links contain amsterdam.

You can combine these to do very refined searches...
Hope they help,
Regards, Stalex111

 

[elmarcorulz]

place it in exclamation marks like this:

"new world order"

They're quotation marks. An exclamation mark is this !