Friday, December 5, 2008

How to Use Google Searching Effectivly




The basics of Google search is typing a one or more search terms in the search engine box and clicking enter. Google then produces a search page related to your term. Google is such a great way to get information on anything. You can go online and type in a word and get millions of results that have to do with that word. However. sometimes it might be difficult to find exactly what you are looking for. This could be because you might not be using Google search in the right way.


To maximize the effectiveness you can: choose the right search terms, capitalization does not matter, if you want more results type in more terms; for less type in less terms (a vacation spot in Hawaii type in vacation Hawaii), google ignores common words (such as where and how) so if a common word is needed to get the results you need put a + sign in front of it, it does not uses the stemming process which means that it also searches for the words that are similar to your search terms, if you want your results to have the exact words of a phrase put quotations around it (“the long and winding road”), for words that have more than one meaning put a minus sign in front of the term for the word that you don’t want to search ( to search about the bass fish you can put bass-music to avoid getting a different outcome), and when your done entering your search term you might want to try the “ I’m Feeling Lucky” button which takes you straight to the most relevant websites.

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