Technology Tip: How to search like a pro!

Technology Tip:

How to search like a pro!

Lets face it the internet is huge and it keeps growing bigger every day.  If you want to search it efficiently you are going to need to develop a couple of tricks to help you narrow the search.  Here are few easy ones to integrate into your next search:

 

Using +, - and “ “ (quotes) to narrow your searches:

Pretend you are looking up apples on Google.com.  If you just type in “apples” you get over 22 million results.  A few more sites than you can check in an afternoon so lets narrow the search down.  Let us say that what you are really interested in are green apples.  To see all the apple websites that also have the word “green” on them type this:

 

Now you will only see those apple sites that also have the word green on them.  Unfortunately we are still getting almost 6 million websites: 

 

To narrow the search even more lets eliminate a word.  For example, some of the websites are also about Apple Computers so lets get rid of them by typing this:

 

That reduced about 1 million of the website results but we still have about 5 million web pages to check out.  A final way to narrow the search is to use quotes to narrow the search to an exact phrase.  For example if what we are really interested in is granny smith apples we can add that to the search like this:

 

Now you will only see websites that have the words “granny smith” on them in that order spelled the way I spelled them.  Using quotes is always a great way to narrow a search and in my example I was able to go from having 22 million web pages from my original search for “apples” to around 220,000 by my last example.

Hope this helped, Good Luck!  

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