The Google Search Guide: Final Tips (Part 3)

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Final Tips - Part 1:

About 12 years ago there was a band, in a small town, in Indiana. They only ever made one record. There were around 20 CDs burned, and then everyone moved apart. In 2005, the last CD was lost in the fold, and no one had heard the band since. In 2010, I decided to go looking for them with the new knowledge I had. After about a half an hour, I found a paid site with a free trial subscription. I registered, downloaded all of their songs, burned a bunch of CDs, and re-distributed them, some to the band members themselves.

With searching, anything is possible. The web is vast, so finding what you need can be a bit difficult. This part is just going to be a bit dedicated to showing you a few different types of key word focuses as well as tell you a few things you may not realize.

Google is incredible, in that they can return over a million results. That's a lot of results to go through, so finding the best ones can be a bit difficult. By narrowing your keywords, and using more useful words, you can find what you are looking for much simpler. I'll use the example I had above for a quick overview.

When I was searching for this band, I typed in (Durge). That was their band name, well, I found quite a few results, but nothing that had any promise. So I furthered my search, I searched (+Durge Music), which was the band name with a modifier to remove irrelevant results and an additional modifier to tell the search engine what I was trying to find. Again, nothing very promising. I then furthered my search even more to be (+Durge "Broken Homes"), Needless to say, the first result was exactly what I was looking for.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.


Final Tips - Part 2:

A few things to remember when searching:

• Know what you're trying to do. Do you want to do, know or go?
• Keep out useless words, only use words that are going to be included in the results.
• Use modifiers to remove unnecessary words, group important words, and browse particular sites.
• Don't give up. If you don't find what you're looking for at first, refine your search terms, and keep at it.
• Effective searching takes practice. It may seem silly now, but there are millions of people who can't find what they're looking for on the internet easily.
• Use Google, it's the best Search Engine out there . Personally, I use Google at least once a day for just about everything!

Course Conclusion:

Bing was introduced as a "Decision Engine". They claimed that people were being bogged down with "Search Overload". While this is most certainly true, it was not the Search Engine's fault. Once you have been a search engine evaluator, and seen queries like "ax293 lf2" and such, you find that people really are clueless on how to perform an effective search. Instead of switching search engines, try a few of my tips and maybe you'll find exactly what you're looking for . You'll see a difference just by trying it!