How to do a better search on Google ?
I think google is best search engine no doubt but we can explore it in our own way O here are some basic tricks about google to use it for gen-next
1. Use a Toolbar
Don’t bother typing in google’s homepage www.google.com or setting it to your homepage. Just download the google toolbar [inbuilt in Firefox and Opera].And for Internet Explorer[IE] just log on to toolbar.google.com For Yahoo! search toolbar head to toolbar.yahoo.com.
2. Filtering Search Results :
Google and Yahoo! don’t have parental control, but you can control what you are exposed to! If you don’t want obscene images turning up an image search, for example set your Google preferneces to “use Strict filtering.” The google preferences link is to the right of the search bar on www.google.com
3. Excluding Unwanted Results
The “-” (minus) sign is used to exclude certain words from your search. If you want to search information about 5.1 Speaker sets, you’ll probably get a lot of results about other speaker configurations. Instead of “5.1 speakers” try “5.1. speakers -2.1 -3.1 -4.1 -6.1 -7.1″.
4. The Use of Quotes :
Use quotes as often as possible for most relevant results, and for your desired results to appear as high up in the list as possible. For example if you want to know who the Time Man of the year 1990 was, it’s better to type in “time’s man of the year” in the quotes followed by “1990″ (with or without quotes), rather than just “times man of the year 1990″ without any quotes!
5. Using the Cached feature
If a result is taking too long to open, and the information you need doesn’t relate to time (as in news items), use the “cached” link(if there is one) after the result. This will certainly load, since google and Yahoo! are almost never down!
6. Personalised Search
If you want your search to be more and more relevant over time, and if you don’t mind google knowing a lot about you, sign in before your search. The sign-in link is at the top right hand corner of the google homepage, and you’ll need to use your Gmail username and password. From then on until you sign out , Google remembers what you searched for and what you clicked , making it possible to give you more accurate, personaliosed search.
Some may be apranoid about google knowing so much about you, but in some peoples’ opinion, “Who cares what a server in California or somewhere knows about me?” its your choice…
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