Post by PickyChicky on Jun 8, 2014 1:56:03 GMT -6
As business owners, we frequently need to do research online, which can be rather time consuming. Particularly when the search results force us to weed through a ton of useless junk that needlessly wastes time we can't afford.
Well, I have good news for you! There are ways in which you can narrow down those results to help you find what you're looking for more quickly and easily: Google's Advanced Search, Advanced Image Search, Search Operators, and the use of certain Punctuation & Symbols. (Click the links to learn more about those two options)
You can even use the advanced search "usage rights" option to filter for content and images to reuse, which will be covered in the next post. Using this option will render results that provide content and images you can take and use above and beyond fair use.
This particular post will cover how to add "search operators" (a combination of symbols and words) to help narrow down the results your search terms render. When using search operators, just keep in mind that that they won't work if you add spaces after them, with the exception of the * and OR operators.
For example, site:esellerscafe.boards.net will work, but site: esellerscafe.boards.net will not. Refer to the following table for all of the search operators available:
Don’t worry about memorizing every operator as you can use the Advanced Search page to create these searches. Also, when you search, most punctuation and special characters are ignored, but there are some that do work.
Source: support.google.com/websearch/answer/136861?hl=en&ref_topic=3081620
Well, I have good news for you! There are ways in which you can narrow down those results to help you find what you're looking for more quickly and easily: Google's Advanced Search, Advanced Image Search, Search Operators, and the use of certain Punctuation & Symbols. (Click the links to learn more about those two options)
You can even use the advanced search "usage rights" option to filter for content and images to reuse, which will be covered in the next post. Using this option will render results that provide content and images you can take and use above and beyond fair use.
This particular post will cover how to add "search operators" (a combination of symbols and words) to help narrow down the results your search terms render. When using search operators, just keep in mind that that they won't work if you add spaces after them, with the exception of the * and OR operators.
For example, site:esellerscafe.boards.net will work, but site: esellerscafe.boards.net will not. Refer to the following table for all of the search operators available:
| Search for an exact word or phrase "search" | Use quotes to search for an exact word or set of words on a web page. This is helpful when searching for song lyrics or a line from a book. But only use this if you're looking for an exact word or phrase, otherwise you'll exclude many helpful results by mistake. "imagine all the people" |
| Exclude a word -search | Add a dash (-) before a word or site to exclude all results that include that word. This is especially useful for words with multiple meanings, like Jaguar the car brand and jaguar the animal. jaguar speed -car pandas -site:wikipedia.org |
| Search within a site or domain site: | Get results only from certain sites or domains. For example, you can find all mentions of "olympics" on the NBC website, or any .gov websites. olympics site:nbc.com olympics site:.gov |
| Search for pages that link to a URL link: | Find pages that link to a certain page. For example, you can find all the pages that link to google.com. link:google.com |
| Search for pages that are similar to a URL related: | Find sites that are similar to a URL you already know. If you search for related sites to the Time.com, you'll find other news publication sites you may be interested in. related:time.com |
| Fill in the blank * | Add an asterisk within a search as a placeholder for any unknown or wildcard terms. Use with quotation marks to find variations of that exact phrase or to remember words in the middle of a phrase. "a * saved is a * earned" |
| Search for either word OR | If you want to search for pages that may have just one of several words, include OR (capitalized) between the words. Without the OR, your results would typically show only pages that match both terms. world cup location 2014 OR 2018 |
| Search for a number range .. | Separate numbers by two periods without spaces (..) to see results that contain numbers in a given range of things like dates, prices, and measurements. camera $50..$100 |
| Find information about a site info: | Get information about a URL, including the cached version of the page, similar pages, and pages that link to the site. info:google.com |
| See a cached version of a site cache: | See what a page looks like the last time Google crawled the site. cache:washington.edu |
Source: support.google.com/websearch/answer/136861?hl=en&ref_topic=3081620
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