The internet is big, really, really big. And it keeps growing bigger every day. If you want to search it effectively you’re going to need to develop a couple of tricks to help you narrow the search. Here’s a few real easy ones to integrate into your next search:
Using +, - and “ “ (quotes)
Lets say you were looking up apples on Google.com. If you just type in “apples” you get 50 million returns. A few more sites than you can check in an afternoon so lets narrow the search down. Let's say that what you're really interested in phones all over the world then remove the country that your staying. because google will automatically find your geographical location and get the results to that place.
Now you will only see those apple sites that also have the word green on them. Unfortunately we are still getting almost 33 million returned websites
To narrow the search even more lets eliminate a word. For example, you want to search the apple mobiles in india so add the india with "+".
That reduced about almost 33 million of the returns 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 you want to search the price then insert price in special quotes like as shown in the below figure.
Now I will only see websites that will tell the price of apple mobile in india Using quotes is always a great way to narrow a search and in my example I was able to go from having 50 million web pages returned from my original search for “apples” to around 6750 by my last example.
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Using +, - and “ “ (quotes)
to narrow your searches:
Lets say you were looking up apples on Google.com. If you just type in “apples” you get 50 million returns. A few more sites than you can check in an afternoon so lets narrow the search down. Let's say that what you're really interested in phones all over the world then remove the country that your staying. because google will automatically find your geographical location and get the results to that place.Now you will only see those apple sites that also have the word green on them. Unfortunately we are still getting almost 33 million returned websites
To narrow the search even more lets eliminate a word. For example, you want to search the apple mobiles in india so add the india with "+".
Now I will only see websites that will tell the price of apple mobile in india Using quotes is always a great way to narrow a search and in my example I was able to go from having 50 million web pages returned from my original search for “apples” to around 6750 by my last example.
Thank your for reading.
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