I have met many people online and around me, most of them with some major complain “I cant find this on google”.Well thats surprising!!! All of my searches done till now hardly one of 1000 will fail and that also sometimes doesn’t happen.So here are some tips if you want to search.Its easy , you just got to read it with some concentration.

Tips on how to search :

• Use Google tool bar,no need to set home page or even visit Google’s site .Its faster.You can download it here.
• Filter Search Results: If you see lot of porn material results coming on your search, what you can do is set the “Safe Search option On “ or “Use Strict Filtering”.
• Excluding Unwanted Results : If you want certain things not to be included in your search result , just add “-”(minus sign) before that word.For example “apple -banana”.SO banana will not come into search results.
• The use of Quotes: If you want to look for a perticular sentence, put them in quotes.So the search engine can understand you are looking for that particular line.I had been using them when i get some error in wordpress.It exactly locates the error phrase.
• Cached Result: If some page is taking too much time to load you can go for it.On every search result, at the end of the link , there is one more link as “Cached Result”.If you click on that it will be faster.However It might not be the updated data, so you have to think on that.

• Force Keywords: Sometimes when we look for certain words, Its listed in the lower ranked pages.This happens if you have more no of words.Google gives result according to importance of keyword found.For example “Ashish Java Blog” , In this java and blog have higher preference that ashish, so ashish might be listed somewhere down the page.So to force google to give ashish higher preference use “+” sign. So the words would be now “Ashish+java+blogs”.Now the search engine can target ashish.
• Ready Info: Google has some hidden gems.Some things you can get direct.Suppose you want to know some persons birthdate, instead of writing pages like “When was Mozart born” type “Mozart Born”.
• Quick Definitions: Did you know google has “define” command embeded in search engine!!! Even I was surprised.If you want to find some definition use like this “define:blogging”.
• Searching withing site: Some sites have google search engines on their home page, so if you want to search something in thhat site, you need not to go to that site, surprised? use this “site:www.examplesite.com”
• Misc: For specifying domain name use like this “admissions:edu”. For specifying file type “filetype:pdf”.For looking a word in site’s title “allintitle: micerosoft knowledge” (Keep a space in between allintitle: and Microsoft).

All right no more.Its a little long but i can bet these are useful.So if you have given your time to read this, I am sure you can search better now.

Hey do you have more? Just put into comments and let other and me know about it.

About The Author of this article: Ashish is one of the co-author of this blog and writes on various interesting softwares, PC tips and more. You can read more of his articles here.

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