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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Refining your Google Search

Ever 'Googled' something, and found that most of the links are plain useless?
Here are quick tips to refine your searches:

1. to search within a particular website (from your google home-page), type the keyword to be searched for, followed by "site: www.mysite,com", without the quotes ;) . The site, 'mysite.com' will be searched for the keyword.

2. searching for definitions?, type "define: word", you'll be given links to all the available definitions of the word on the web.

3. to find a phrase, enclose it within " ", and the exact phrase will be searched for.

4. type a + sign before a keyword to search for that specific word only, and not it's variations like plural or any tenses or synonyms.

5. search with a ~ (tilde) before a word, and get results for the word, and it's synonyms. "~auto" searches for both the word auto and its synonyms: truck, car, etc.

6. search for "virus -computer" to get results for virus, but not related to computer.

7. "info: www.mysite.com" searches for information about the given site.

8.
"related: www.mysite.com" searches for pages related to the given site.

9. " [#]...[#] ", ([#] represents a number) searches within a range of numbers, e.g. laptop Rs.30,000...60,000 to find laptops within this range.

10. xyz * abc searches for the words xyz and abc separated by a word or two.

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2 comments:

  1. knew few of them :P
    These things are necessary for many....i have seen people not finding simple things in Google i.e the best known search engine and still they end with nothing which many of searches in secs.

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