Learn to search information more specifically
- February 19th, 2012
How do you search some specific information on the internet? Just typing some words in Google or Bing? No, no, no, you need more specific skills.
Here’s some useful tips for you.
1. Using the right method
You must know what exactly results shown in the first pages before you type anything in the search engine. Then think about what word can describe the information most specifically. After think about this, you can start typing something in the search engine.
2. Using right conjunction
If you want to search some classified information in San Francisco, you need to type “San Francisco classifieds” (which is really means San AND Francisco AND classifieds"), if you type the words “San Francisco OR classifieds” the results would be much different.
3.Ignore some words.
Google with directly ignore some words like “what” “in” “how” “on”, so, when you are about search something you must remember this. For example, when I search some free classified Ads in New York, I would type the word “Free classified Ads New York” instead of “Free classified Ads in New York”.
4.Other tips
Search for short sentences, you ban put the in quotation marks like “nothing comes of nothing”.
Search for one document type you can type the words like this “guidebook filetype:pdf”.
If you are wondering how many sites point to you own site, you can just type the word in the search engine like this “link:google.com”.
To translate a words into other language, you can just type “ translate hello to Japanese”.
If you want to know how much one dollar equals in Chinese Yuan, just type” 1 USD to CNY”, then you can get het answer.
There’s lots of useful tips when you’re using search engines, if you can use them in your daily search, it will helps a lot.