How To Search In Google
Google is a search engine that scours the web for pages relevant to a query. Comprised of a keyword or keyword phrase,a query is how you request data from Google (what you type in the search bar).
A basic query is generally satisfactory, but the following tips and tricks can help you learn how to search in Google more successfully and obtain better results!
Google Site Search Tips & Tricks...
Basic Google Search Tips
It's important to remember that a Google site search applies almost all queried words. Each queried word is separately searched unless it is a common word (a, the, for, etc)--which are usually ignored if they not first word in the query. Also, Google is not case sensitive and punctuation - except that of the dollar, underscore and hyphen symbol - is often ignored.
In a basic search, try to keep it simple, yet specific. In as few words as possible, use descriptive search words that you think may appear on the page that you are searching for.
Here are some cool Google Search Tips and Tricks
This video shows you some very helpful tricks and tips that will make your searching efforts much better. Watch and learn now all the cool things you can do with Google searches.
Google Advanced Search Tricks
- By default, Google Advanced Search considers all queried words, yet often ignores common words. Have Google pay more attention to a word by attaching a + symbol to the beginning (+how to play poker).
- Conversely, when a - symbol is placed in front of a word (or even a website) it is omitted from a search (buy gold - silver). However, unlike the + symbol, the - symbol needs a space between it and the first letter (or it would be deciphered a hyphen).
- Rather than searching for each word individually, adding quotations (" ") tells Google to search for an exact wording or phrase ("The Beatles").
- Google uses synonyms automatically. For example, the query [Iowa history] is additionally searched as [ia history]. It is possible to prevent such synonyms in your search by putting quotes (" ") around a word.
- By typing OR in all caps (Poker Tournaments 2009 OR 2010), you can further specify the words in a search. Without this, Google would search for sites that include both words on the same page, because "and" is the default.
- The * symbol is known as a wild card, and is a way to get Google to fill in the blank for you. Google uses this opportunity to find the best matches for whole words, not on the parts of the words themselves. For example [make money by * on the Internet] will return results about types of Internet services that people may be able to make money from.
- Search within a specific site by entering a web page title in the query. For example, the query [poker site: kickasspoker.com] will return pages only from kickasspoker.com.
- Search for a whole class of sites, such as only within an .edu domain site (college attendance: .edu). Or you can search web pages that are related in content by typing " related" before a website address (related: www.google.com).
Now that you know how to achieve a more affective Google Site Search, what are you waiting for? Give our Google search tips and tricks a try!
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