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Having
trouble finding something on Google - try these tips published by
Michael Gray |
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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. |