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How To Refine
Your Google Search
by
Nelson Tan
Add
and subtract your way to more effective and faster searches with
these tips that give you exactly what you need. The key: Be
as specific as possible. Here's how:
1.
Use the addition (+) sign to make sure you get all the terms in
your search results. So: '+internet +marketing +strategies'
will get you results containing all those words, leaving
out web pages that only contain 'internet'.
2.
Use the subtraction (-) sign to exclude references that you are
not interested in. For example, if you are not interested in web
pages that talk about viral marketing, enter: 'internet
marketing strategies -viral'.
3.
Sometimes, your search terms may be far off from one another on
a web page. To ensure your terms appear together in a
phrase, put them in double quotations, like this: "internet
marketing strategies". This is also useful when
you want to look for specific topics, such as "how to remove
spyware", rather than having the terms scattered all over.
4.
If you are looking for a word definition, Google has a tool for
you. Just type: 'define: widget' to get a definition of
the word from online dictionaries and glossaries.
5.
Google even performs calculations. For example, enter '1+2+3'
and click 'search' to get the result. It can also perform unit
conversions such as from miles to kilometers. Enter '10 miles
to kilometers' and you'll get 16.09344 kilometers.
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