Monday, October 1, 2007

Google searching tips

You can search much more efficiently and specifically with Google, this is a list of all the tips i know that can make your searching easier:

  • When you want to search a specific site, for example: blogspot.com, this is what you write in the search box: "whatever site:blogspot.com". Now you can change the "whatever" to anything you want to search and the URL after the "site:" to any site you want.
  • If you want to search a specific file format such as *.jpg, this is what you write in the search box: "whatever inurl:jpg", again changing the "whatever" to anything you want and the "jpg" after the "inurl:" to any file format you want. If you want to search more than one format just add more like this "inurl:jpg|gif|bmp".
  • If you want sites that include a "word" or "another word" you can write this in the search box: "one OR two"(keep the OR in capital letters), this will search "one" or "two".
  • If you want sites that include all the words you wrote, write this in the search box: "allintitle: these are some words", Google will search only sites that include the full sentence "these are some words".

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