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All Just about Computer VirusHow to Find What You Want with Google
by:
John Lenaghan
Most folk who search on the computer network have a favorite search engine. In fact, the majority of computer network users choose Google.
Do you fall into this category? If so, are you taking advantage of everything Google offers?
If an computer network search means you go to www.google.com and just type 2 or 3 words into the search box, hoping to find what you're looking for, you aren't even as scratching the surface.
How Can You Get Better Results?
Google is the number one search engine for nice reason - their results are generally the most accurate. Even as so, there are route to pinpoint what you're looking for even as more effectively.
You have two options once
it comes to fine-tuning your searches - you can use the Google Advanced Search screen or you can use "modifiers" in the main Google search.
Option 1: Google Advanced Search
When you go to www.google.com, there is a little "Advanced Search" link to the right of the main search box. If you click on that, you'll get the more much elaborate Google search, wherever
you can do really specific requests.
The 1st four sections, highlighted in blue, are several of the most important. Here you can specify any of the following:
1. All of the words - this wish give you results with all of your search words, but not in any particular order. They can besides be anyplace
on the page.
2. The exact phrase - this wish give you results with exactly the phrase you enter. The phrase must appear on the page exactly the way you enter it.
3. At least one of the words - this wish show results with any one or more of your search words on the page.
4. Without the words - this wish give you results that don't include your search terms at all.
These four sections can be used severally
or combined to activity together.
For example, you could search for the exact phrase 'free virus software' without the words 'trial' or 'tryout' if you're looking for free virus software system but don't want trial versions that wish expire after a short time.
As another example, you could use option #3 (at least one of the words) if you're looking for thing
but don't cognize exactly how to spell it. Put a few possible spellings in and it wish find pages with any one or more of those spellings.
The rest of the sections on the Advanced Search page are pretty self-explanatory. One that I wish point out is the Domain option. You can specify a website and either search for thing
only on that site, or anyplace
but that site.
If you've found an absorbing website that doesn't have a search function of its own, you can use this to limit Google to searching that site for any you're looking for. In fact, the Google search is often better even as if the site makes have its own search function.
You can besides use it to find another references to thing
you mightiness have see on a particular website. If you search for it and exclude the site you saw it on, you'll find another references to it that you can cross-check.
Option 2: Exploitation Modifiers
Modifiers wish let you use all the advanced features without having to go to the Advanced Search page every time. These modifiers can just be entered in the standard Google search box to get the same results as the advanced options.
There are quite a few several modifiers that can be used, but several of the most useful are as follows:
Putting "" about a phrase wish search for the exact phrase. Searching for free antivirus software system wish show you pages with those three words anyplace
on the page. Searching for "free antivirus software" shows you pages that contain that exact phrase.
Putting a - before a word is the same as the advanced option "without the words." So, to use the example used earlier, searching for "free virus software" -trial -tryout wish show pages with that exact phrase, not including the another two words.
Using site: followed by the domain name of the website you want to search wish only return results from that particular website. For example, searching for "virus protection" site:computer-help-squad.com wish only return results from the www.computer-help-squad.com website.
Again, these can be combined so -site: wish return results from any site except the one you specify.
How to Numbers Out the Modifiers
The easiest way to see how to use modifiers in your searches is to try several searches with the Advanced Search page and see how Google formats them.
Using our example again, if you enter 'free antivirus software' in the "with the exact phrase" box and the words 'trial' and 'tryout' in the "without the words" box, the search that Google runs looks like this:
"free virus software" -trial -tryout
If you play about a bit with the advanced searches, you'll see how Google formats them for you. Next time, you can just enter them yourself in the standard search box instead of going to the Advanced Search page.
Once you get the hang of these options in Google, you'll find that your searches get even as more accurate because you can filter out the stuff you don't want.
Just about the author:
John Lenaghan offers easy-to-understand proposal
at the Computer Help Squad website. Sign up for our news-sheet and obtain your free report "5 Critical Steps to Protective
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