Google Search Tips
Google Search Basics can help empower your searching on the web…did you know you can search by an item or a part number? If it’s in a database that Google has crawled, then you’ll probably find it.
Sometimes you want to search within a specific website…so you would enter your search words (space) site name, for example, if you’re looking for news about social media in the New York Times, you would enter: social media site: nytimes.com
You can also specify a whole class of sites, like if you’re just looking for Texas state government pages, for example: Texas site:.gov
To find an exact phrase, enclose your words inside “double quotes” although Google’s default behavior is to consider all the words in a search. The double quotes will make your search very specific, instead of generic.
If you want to specifically allow either one of several words, you can use the OR operator (note that you have to type ‘OR’ in ALL CAPS;) for example: Dallas Cowboys 2010 OR 2009 would produce team results for either one of those years.
Google also publishes good search tips in their blog, along with company news and events.
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
Written by: Mike
Tags: blog, Google, Search, Tips
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