Example: "internet marketing" site:

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1 How to use Google to get better search results. By A1 Computers And Service When most people need any type of information they generally turn to a Google search for the answer. I ask this, are they getting the best answer from their search? Most people don t really know how to use Google to get the best relevant results therefore their results are sometimes mixed with unwanted results. By reading and following a few simple tips you ll be able to use Google to perform searches and return much more relevant and accurate results. Here are twelve proven steps to use to help you get better results with Google. 1. Explicit Phrase: Let s say you are looking for content about internet marketing. Instead of just typing internet marketing into the Google search box, you will likely be better off searching explicitly for the phrase. To do this, simply enclose the search phrase within double quotes. Example: "internet marketing" 2. Exclude Words: Let s say you want to search for content about internet marketing, but you want to exclude any results that contain the term advertising. To do this, simply use the "-" sign in front of the word you want to exclude. Example Search: internet marketing advertising 3. Site Specific Search: Often, you want to search a specific website for content that matches a certain phrase. Even if the site doesn t support a built-in search feature, you can use Google to search the site for your term. Simply use the "site:somesite.com" modifier. Example: "internet marketing" site: 4. Similar Words and Synonyms: Let s say you want to include a word in your search, but want to include results that contain similar words or synonyms. To do this, use the "~" in front of the word. Example: "internet marketing" ~professional 5. Specific Document Types: If you re looking to find results that are of a specific type, you can use the modifier "filetype:". For example, you might want to find only PowerPoint presentations related to internet marketing.

2 Example: "internet marketing" filetype:ppt 6. This OR That: By default, when you do a search, Google will include all the terms specified in the search. If you are looking for any one of one or more terms to match, then you can use the OR operator. (Note: The OR has to be capitalized). Example: internet marketing OR advertising 7. Phone Listing: Let s say someone calls you on your mobile number and you don t know who it is. If all you have is a phone number, you can look it up on Google using the phonebook feature. Example: phonebook: Area Code Lookup: If all you need to do is to look-up the area code for a phone number, just enter the 3-digit area code and Google will tell you where it s from. Example: Numeric Ranges: This is a rarely used, but highly useful tip. Let s say you want to find results that contain any of a range of numbers. You can do this by using the X..Y modifier (in case this is hard to read, what s between the X and Y are two periods.) This type of search is useful for years (as shown below), prices, or anywhere where you want to provide a series of numbers. Example: president Stock (Ticker Symbol): Just enter a valid ticker symbol as your search term and Google will give you the current financials and a quick thumb-nail chart for the stock. Example: GOOG 11. Calculator: The next time you need to do a quick calculation, instead of bringing up the Calculator applet, you can just type your expression in to Google. Example: * 1.02

3 12. Word Definitions: If you need to quickly look up the definition of a word or phrase, simply use the "define:" command. Example: define:plethora By using these 12 tips you ll rank up there with the best of the Google experts out there. Here are some more tips and examples below Use quotation marks to locate an entire string. eg. Church Of Googlism" will only return results with that exact string. Mark essential words with a + If a search term must contain certain words or phrases, mark it with a + symbol. eg: + bill gates conference will return all results containing bill gates but not necessarily those pertaining to a conference. Negate unwanted words with a - You may wish to search for the term bass, pertaining to the fish and be returned a list of music links as well. To narrow down your search a bit more, try: bass -music. This will return all results with bass and NOT music. General Tips: site: This will search only pages which reside on this domain. related: This will display all pages which Google finds to be related to your URL

4 link: This will display a list of all pages which Google has found to be linking to your site. Useful to see how popular your site is spell:word Runs a spell check on your word define:word Returns the definition of the word stocks: [symbol, symbol, etc] Returns stock information. eg. stock: goog maps:48185 or Westland A shortcut to Google Maps phone: name_here Attempts to lookup the phone number for a given name cache: If you include other words in the query, Google will highlight those words within the cached document. For instance, cache: web will show the cached content with the word web highlighted. info: The query [info:] will present some information that Google has about that web page. For instance, info: will show information about the CyberWyre homepage. Note there can be no space between the info: and the web page url. weather: or Westland

5 Used to find the weather in a particular city. eg. weather: new York Advanced Tips: filetype: Does a search for a specific file type, or, if you put a minus sign (-) in front of it, it won t list any results with that filetype. Try it with.mp3,.mpg or.avi if you like. daterange: Is supported in Julian date format only is an example of a Julian date. allinurl: If you start a query with [allinurl:], Google will restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the url. For instance, [allinurl: google search] will return only documents that have both google and search in the url. inurl: If you include [inurl:] in your query, Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the url. For instance, [inurl:google search] will return documents that mention the word google in their url, and mention the word search anywhere in the document (url or no). Note there can be no space between the inurl: and the following word. allintitle: If you start a query with [allintitle:], Google will restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the title. For instance, [allintitle: google search] will return only documents that have both google and search in the title. intitle: If you include [intitle:] in your query, Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the title. For instance, [intitle:google search] will return documents that mention the word google in their title, and mention the word search anywhere in the document (title or no). Note there can be no space between the intitle: and the following word.

6 bphonebook: If you start your query with bphonebook:, Google shows U.S. business white page listings for the query terms you specify. For example, [ bphonebook: google mountain view ] will show the phonebook listing for Google in Mountain View. phonebook: If you start your query with phonebook:, Google shows all U.S. white page listings for the query terms you specify. For example, [ phonebook: Krispy Kreme Mountain View ] will show the phonebook listing of Krispy Kreme donut shops in Mountain View. rphonebook: If you start your query with rphonebook:, Google shows U.S. residential white page listings for the query terms you specify. For example, [ rphonebook: John Doe New York ] will show the phonebook listings for John Doe in New York (city or state). Abbreviations like [ rphonebook: John Doe NY ] generally also work.