Tips To Become An Effective Searcher on Google Search

Save Your Time And Enhance Your Search Depth

It is a dream come to true when you are able to find what you were looking for in the search engine. As more and more content is published online and indexed by the search engines, it is becoming increasingly difficult to conduct an efficient and effective search.

Did you know that save out time and at the same time increase the relevance of searched pages results, there are commands available that you can utilize.

All you have to do is to use them frequently and they would turn into a great searching habit.

Here are the tips to become an effective searcher. These are applicable to Google. But I am sure many of them would be useful for other search engines also.

Add Extra Keyword To Regular Search

Add some extra keyword to your regular keyword that you intend to search. Keywords like FAQ, Guide, Tip, How-to etc can make your results more focused.

Use Operators

Operators are symbols that are used with variables to allow us to perform certain functions. You can use following operators in your search with huge effect.

• Quotation marks – As in “search keyword”. This would make sure that only pages containing particular word or phrase are selected.
• Adding  Intitle: before keyword makes your search more refined by including only sites with the keyword in their title text
• Similarly adding Inurl: returns results where the url contains the keywords you’ve selected
• And adding Link: returns the number of links a Web site has
• Adding  Site: returns how many  pages a site has in Google
• Adding Related: before keyword returns results related to your keyword
• Adding Define: shows definitions for your keyword from various sources
• Using + sign between two words would result all the pages that contain both of the words
• Using ~ sign before the term returns synonyms for the term
• Using – sign before a word would exclude the pages containing that word
• Using * sign after after a part of sentence tells Google to complete that sentence

Using Places Other Than Google Home Page

Google Code Search – http://google.com/codesearch

Google Book Search – http://books.google.com

Google Scholar – http://scholar.google.com

Google News Archive – http://news.google.com/archivesearch

Google Government Search – http://google.com/ig/usgov

I hope that you find these useful. If you have tips that you want to share with the readers of the blog, please leave them in comments.

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