Daily Rover » Search http://www.dailyrover.com Roving the Net so you don't have to... Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:00:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Google Search Tips http://www.dailyrover.com/google-search-tips.html http://www.dailyrover.com/google-search-tips.html#comments Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:47:18 +0000 Mike http://www.dailyrover.com/?p=1201 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.

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Mr. Tweet  mrtweet.net
Suggests which followers YOU should be following in return.  Also suggests what influential people YOU SHOULD be following.

TwitApps replies.twitapps.com
Get tweets containing @your_username in your inbox without revealing your password.

TwitterFeed  twitterfeed.com
Easy to use application feeds your blog posts to Twitter.

Twitter Search search.twitter.com
Real time search through tweets…what’s being said about your keyword right now?

Don’t Use Twply, it has compromised Twitter passwords.  There’s updated info about phishing and other online scams directed at Twitter users on Twitter’s official blog blog.twitter.com

Tools I’ve heard about, but haven’t used yet:

TweetDeck tweetdeck.com/beta
Sort your twitter feeds into manageable columns of information, like Group, Search and Replies.  This Adobe Air desktop application (currently in public beta,) offers a different view to track your twitter threads.

TwtPoll twtpoll.com
Poll a subject on either Twitter or Facebook

What tools do YOU use to enhance Twitter?  Please leave a comment or follow me on Twitter.

@mikiesoft

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