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Having
trouble finding something on Google - try these tips published by
Michael Gray
in his personal Blog when he wants to find out about Blue Widgets.
Complex,
restrictive and factual search tips can be found on his
Blog page
One
important thing to remember is to make your search as narrow as
possible. If you just look for
blue
widgets
then
you will get 1000's of pages. Looking for
blue
widgets
in Kingston will find fewer. And looking for
blue
widgets
in Kingston Ontario will really narrow your search. So be
creative!
blue
widgets Finds pages
with the words blue and/or widgets on them or in the title or used
in the anchor text to link the page. Words may not be near each
other (this is known as proximity).
“blue
widgets” Finds
pages with the words blue and widgets on them or in the title or
used in the anchor text to link the page. The words must be next to
each other and in the exact same order. This type of query is known
as an exact phrase match.
blue or
widgets
Finds pages with the words blue or widgets on
them or in the title or used in the anchor text to link the page.
blue and
widgets Finds pages
with the words blue and widgets on them or in the title or used in
the anchor text to link the page. Both words must occur in one of
the cases, but can occur in any order.
blue
-widgets Finds
pages with the words blue on them or in the title or used in the
anchor text to link the page. The page, title and anchor text must
not have the word widgets in them. It’s very important that
the minus sign [-] be next to the word without a space. This is
known as a negative search term.
blue
~widgets Finds
pages with the word blue on them or in the title or used in the
anchor text to link the page. It also returns documents with
synonyms for the word next to the tilde [~] (in this case widgets)
on the page, in the title or in the anchor text to the page.
define:
blue This will give
you definitions for the word [blue] and links to pages with
definitions. |
