Improving Your Google Searches

Posted by on 02/11 at 04:34 PM Permalink

While Google is a great search engine, you’ve probably noticed that when you do a search, Google usually returns more results that you can comfortably chew. But how can you limit Google’s search results?

Many people know the trick of enclosing a search query in quotes, and some may know about putting a plus sign (+) in front of a search term. But, there’s more that you can do. There are a number of really simple techniques for improving your Google searches so that the results better focus on the information that you want.

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    Posted by Ashish Madan  on  02/11  at  12:02 PM

  1. smile:):) excellent way of explaining. simple language. really appreciated. thanks again geeks.. smile

    2. Posted by Shawn Nelson  on  02/11  at  08:02 PM

  2. I love the tip.  It is great to be able to narrow the search as when 14,000 entries come up, and only 2 per page are what you want, it makes it quite discouraging.

    3. Posted by CarynW  on  02/12  at  06:29 AM

  3. I’ve done tutorials and such on Google products for people I work with, and I spotted a mistake in your “tips” section.  If you put tips OR linux OR “windows vista,” you’ll get anything with any of those 3 search terms.  You need to put tips linux OR “windows vista” in order to get tips for either OS.  Otherwise, though, good job!

    4. Posted by subske  on  02/23  at  01:23 AM

  4. Thanks for these tips. I will find the searching on doc types particularly useful.

    5. Posted by andrew martin  on  03/04  at  09:21 PM

  5. entries with Boolean AND Linux AND “Windows Vista” = 60,200,000
    or entries with +Linux+"Windows Vista” = 58,900,000
    gives you the number of results in google

    Boolean in achaic, google recommends +

    any way to streamline search like for “Helen”
    history>greek>troy>helen ????

    or cooking>salad>spinach ???

    regards, andrew martin

    6. Posted by US  on  08/02  at  09:17 PM

  6. Thanks Geeks, the articles are really worthy .....

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