Opinion Power search,Google style
Search on Google Bhagavan for best results,use keywords effectively.
We are all living encyclopedias these days,thanks to the God of Search,our very own Google Bhagavan. Though most of us know how to search,very few know how to use keywords effectively or how to get the best results with the first try. If there is one person you could ask for help,it would have to be Google itself.
Here is Googles own Top 10 list of search tips and tricks:
1 Squared: Try searching Google Squared for collections of information. For example,try searching GoogleSquared for roller coasters to see a chart of the top 20 tallest roller coasters,or check out this chart of hurricanes for images,descriptions,and damage estimates of recent hurricanes.
2. Wonder Wheel: This is another way of looking at the related searches near what youre looking for. Wonder Wheel is in the left-hand sidebar and produces a circular chart with searches that other people have done recently that are related to yours. Your original search provides the starting node,with paths pointing off in all directions. Click these and you move from node to node,getting further away from the original search,but hopefully in the right direction.
3. History: Sign into your Google account and enable web history. Run your searches,then visit http://www.google.com/history to see your search history and revisit previous searches. Bonus: search history also syncs to your mobile device.
4. Voice: Google Voice Search is a feature of Google Search app for iPhone,BlackBerry,and Nokia S60 V3 phones. If you have an Android phone,search for the Voice Search app in Android Market.
5. Timeline: This option (also in the left-hand toolbar) lets you zoom in on any time range and see news pulled from assorted sources,including books,news,and web pages. Searching for the Anglo-French Wars,for instance,brings up a timeline that runs from 1600-2010,stepping down into individual years,then months.
6. Filter images: Try searching for a word that could result in a wide range of images. Towards the bottom of the left-hand sidebar in Google Images,you’ll see a dedicated option to only clip art,photos,or line drawings to help filter the pictures.
7. File type: Google doesn’t only look for HTML. Type what you’re looking for and then add ‘filetype:tag’ on the end. For instance,’filetype:doc’ will only results with those types of file. This search supports PDF,Microsoft Office formats,Shockwave Flash,and many more. In fact,ANY three letters as a filetype will be discovered.
8. Compare: Visit http://hint.fm/seer/ to get a visual comparison of two search prefixes. Though not a Googleproduct,Web Seer was built by two Googlers and gives interesting insight into Google results.
9. Search in the URL: If you know theres a specific string of letters or words in the URLs of pages youre looking for,you can use inurl to find them. For example,many websites with public webcams have URLs that contain view/view.shtml. So search for inurl:view/view.shtml and your search results will display the URLs for webcams around the world.
10. Search types of sites or specific sites: You can search a wide variety of sites by inserting > before the type of site you want to search. For example,[penguins site:>.edu searches for penguins across all .edu sites. [crater image site:> nasa.gov searches for crater images across nasa.gov .
Tips courtesy: Google
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