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Most of us use search engines as a regular part of our daily routine both at work and home Many of you probably have no idea that you can easily do a lot more with search Invest 5 or 10 minutes here and I will help you open up a new world of search
Most of us use search engines as a regular part of our daily routine both at work and home Many of you probably have no idea that you can easily do a lot more with search Invest 5 or 10 minutes here and I will help you open up a new world of search using Google I promise it will be time well spent

Did you know that you can limit your Google search to a specific site

Lets say you would like only to search the CNNMoney site looking for information on Ford All you need to do is ford sitemoneycnncom

People tell me all the time that I need to add search to my site While I agree and have not gotten around to it I always tell them that my sites are well indexed by the search engines and that they can search my site today For example credit card siteeverydollarmatterscom currently yields 33 page hits

Is your search as comprehensive as it could be

If you are researching the term website development did you know that you are potentially missing a bunch of other good sites There are over 11 million indexed pages using the term web site Try website development OR web site development and you will get back the top pages using both spellings

Maybe you are searching for a decent tutorial on html or an online course Try html tutorial OR html training online

Or no pun intended you might be shopping for a forum in some areas that are of interest to you
living green forum OR global warming forum

OR is a nice expansive google search operator

What can you do to narrow down your search

Sometimes you are looking for a specific phrase For instance getting your website online yields 1230 pages as opposed to getting your website online which yields 114000000 million pages Using quotes around the phrase will limit the result to that specific phrase

Maybe you are researching the JFK assasination You could search for kennedy assassination kennedy assassination video

You can also limit your google search to specific areas of the internet For example

Google Book Search Search the full text of books
Google Code Search Search public source code
Google Scholar Search scholarly papers
Google News archive search Search historical news
US Government Search all US federal state and local government sites
Universities Search a specific schools website

To access this functionality just click on the advanced search hyperlink on the Google homepage You will find these options towards the bottom of the page

Often times you will receive page hits back that you are not interested in

Suppose you were searching for the term six sigma and wanted to exclude all references to General Electric and Motorola You could use the following search string six sigma ge motorola general electric The minus sign is used to exclude certain keywords or phrases

At my site you will find a Quick Google Search Cheat Sheet Happy searching