Google tricks & Other Tutorials

Google is the ultimate search engine. But every now and then there have been cases where people are unsatisfied with the search giant’s results. Unknowingly they think Internet does not has answer for there queries or Google couldn’t find that. Where as if they optimize there queries a little they could easily get some exciting answers. Here I will present to you some basics which one could follow to yield better answers. Everything is available on Google under tips.

Automatic exclusion of common words
Google ignores common words and characters such as “where” and “how”, as well as certain single digits and single letters, because they tend to slow down your search without improving the results. Google will indicate if a common word has been excluded by displaying details on the results page below the search box.
If a common word is essential to getting the results you want, you can include it by putting a “+” sign in front of it. (Be sure to include a space before the “+” sign.)

Negative Terms
If your search term has more than one meaning (bass, for example, could refer to fishing or music) you can focus your search by putting a minus sign (”-”) in front of words related to the meaning you want to avoid.

For example, here’s how you’d find pages about bass-heavy lakes, but not bass-heavy music when you use “bass -music”. (without quotes.)

With Advanced Search, you can search only for pages: