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Content Inside: 10 Top Secret Google Tips Get better web search results, whether you're looking for something on a specific site or a Yellow Pages listing. by Edward Distel From June 2005 issue of LAPTOP magazine Google is one of the few indispensable tools of the Internet. It's free, it's fast, and its ability to tell you almost anything you want to know make it seem omniscient. The information isn't guaranteed to be accurate, but the instant gratification of searching has made "googling" a commonly understood verb, and made Google rankings--the amount a search produces--an increasingly relevant barometer of cultural awareness. To make your googling even more efficient, we're going to introduce you to ten secret back-door tips that will help you maximize Google's performance to get the most out of your searches. Tip 1 - Or Instead of searching using multiple variations of a phrase, try adding the OR Boolean operator. Say you're trying to find Company X, but you can't remember if it's located in San Francisco or San Mateo. By adding OR, which can be abbreviated using the pipeline character |, you can search for both. For example: "Company X" San (Francisco | Mateo) This search will return results that contain Company X and either San Francisco or San Mateo, which can help cut down on trying a slew of Google searches with multiple variations of similar elements. Tip 2 - Not Even more powerful than the OR operator is the logic gate NOT. Don't want something included in your results? Exclude that term by adding NOT, which is signified by a negative sign (-) in front of that element. For example, to get information on coats but not coats of arms, try: coats -arms In this search, Google will exclude all results that contain the term "arms." The term that can be excluded can be anything, and it's one of the most useful Google tools to clean up your searches for more relevant results. Tip 3 - intitle Another way to help narrow results is to limit results to terms listed in the title of a Web page only. A straight Google search for a biography on Abraham Lincoln, for example, might be cluttered with results from Lincoln, Nebraska or tourist information on the Lincoln Memorial; chances are that a full biography will be found in a Web page that contains the complete phrase "Abraham Lincoln" in its title. To search through just titles, use the intitle tag: intitle:"Abraham Lincoln" This will spit out results that have the complete phrase Abraham Lincoln listed in the title of the page. That's the part displayed at the very top of your browser and governed by the Tip 4 - inurl Along the same lines as intitle, Google allows you to restrict your searches to URLs. This comes into play most often when you need to search through university or government domains but can't get past the heaps of unrelated information. For instance, searching for official information on Supreme Court Justice Sandra
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