So many people use Google hunt these days (it's the most favorite hunt machine by a long chalk) that we seem to forget that it's got a lot more under the hood than simply a recipe by which you can type in a join of words and get a list of websites.
In fact, some of the frustrations people have when searching could disappear if they used a join of neat tricks to get the best results possible. They'd save an awful lot of time too, so here are just a join that will make your searches a lot more bearable.
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Exact search
Ok, so you were browsing the web one day and you noticed a website that had the words "holiday rentals in peru" in the headline. A few weeks later you pop back on to Google to try and find it and you hit a problem. When you type in that phrase, you don't find the website you were looking for, it's as if it's gone completely. But it hasn't, it's just that Google doesn't think you wanted that exact phrase at all, so it's searched for dissimilar combinations of the words you used.
This is what happens in most searches. Even though you might type in a phrase, Google takes all the words in that phrase and gives you results based on those words appearing in the websites that it deems to be the best match.
So to get colse to this, simply pop two quotes ("") colse to the phrase and hunt again. You'll now get hunt results for web pages that are optimised for that exact phrase. Simple! But there's more...
I know it's on this site, but I just can't find it...
A lot of websites are huge. Some have thousands of pages of information and they sometimes help by having a hunt box. Any way that hunt box is terrible half the time and try as you might, you just can't find what you're after. So use Google instead!
If it's a large site and it's favorite enough then you can bet Google has already got most of the pages on their indexed somewhere, so what you do is use the 'site' modifier in search. A bit like this:
site:bbc.co.uk flooding
This will find all pages on the Bbc site about 'flooding'. Clever huh?
But there's more.
Want to know the time in Singapore? simply type "What time is it in Singapore"
And let's say we want to change our money for our trip out there. I wonder how much my pounds will go in anyone the currency is in Singapore? I have no idea, so I great as 'Big G'.
"What is ten pounds in Singapore money?"
It'll tell me what the currency is and how much my ten pounds will get me. Awesome huh?
There are loads more things you can do with Google that are even more advanced, but I'll save those for an additional one post!
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