The ‘Art of Googling’

Most people use Google in a very inefficient and often ineffective manner. If all you do is enter a few keywords and click the search button, you’re one of those users who don’t get as much out of Google as you could.

What search operators are available for your use?
Here’s a short list:
allinanchor,allintext,allintitle etc., may be familiar to many people.

Below are 10 hit shots in google power  search.
Quick Tips:

1. “keyword “ – Enclosed in Quotes  Searches for the exact phrase.

2. - (minus symbol) - Exculdes search results with particular word or phrase

3. ~ – Similar Words -  Searches  for all matching words and its synonyms.

4. OR - Multiple words – Searches web pages which include either or word

5. (3 dots) - Searches  for range of numbers.

Example: 1986 – 2009 will list the   results  incidents happened or websites having such a notation in it.

6.  define: Defines a word or phrase

7.  site: Searches only particular websites

8.  link: Searches for webpages that link to a particular website.

9. 1 +1 : Basic calculator functions. Wow!! U can use google as a calculator.

Example : 50/100*100

Result: 50/100*100=50

10.  cm in foot: Converts units of measure.

Regards,

R.Gopinath

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