Tips for Searching This Site
and the World Wide Web
To get the best possible search results, which ultimately helps you find what you are looking for, follow these suggestions:
- Check spelling - Make sure your search terms are spelled correctly.
The search engine will attempt to find words that sound similar your search terms, but it is always best to spell the search terms correctly.
- Use multiple words - Use multiple words when performing your search. More
words for a search will return more refined results than a search from a single word.
- Use similar words - The more similar words you use in a search, the more
relevant results will be to the words that you are searching for.
- Use appropriate capitalization - Use capitalization when looking for
proper nouns such as the name of a person or place. Lowercase words will match any words of any case.
- Use quotation marks around phrases - Use quotation marks to find words that
must appear adjacent to each other within a phrase. For example, search for "Indira Gandhi" within quotes rather than just Indira Gandhi.
- Use Boolean plus (+) or minus (-) operators - Precede a search term or phrase
with a plus (+) sign to indicate it must appear in a search result. Precede a search term with a minus (-) sign to indicate an
undesirable search term or phrase that must not appear in a search result. For example, searching for +dogs -collie will return
results that are about dogs, but not about collies.
- Use field searches - Field searches allow you to search for words that
appear in a specific part of a document such as the body text (body:), title text (title:), alt text (alt:), meta description
(desc:), meta keywords (keys:) or URL (url:). The field name should include the colon and precede the search word or phrase with
no spaces between them. For example, searching for title: presidents will find pages with presidents in the title of the page.
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Google "HOT" Tip!
If you use Google but find it a little slow, try the abbreviated Google search engine found at
www.Google.com/ie. It's small and fast. In Internet Explorer and Netscape, page
descriptions for the search results appear in the Tool Tips texts that pop up when the cursor rolls over the links. So
if you have a slow Internet connection, you can now use Google much faster.
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Alas! A "Google Googler!" Here's a quick and easy way to find any type of information about the world according to Google. -
http://google.indicateur.com/index.php3.
Google is popular because it's so easy to use, but its simplicity hides a lot of its powerful searching options.
Soople.com is a Website that organizes Google's advanced search options on a
single, easy-to-read Web page.
20 Great Google Secrets - A great article by
Tara Calishain of PC Magazine.
Search Engine Marriages and Scandal in a Summer of Love -
Mike Banks Valentine has written an interesting article about the history of search engines and how they have mixed and mingled over the years.
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