How to Use Google effectively

How to be a power Searcher

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Power Searching with Google

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Basics

• Color filtering

– Matters @Google

CAPITALIZATION - no effect

• Ctrl + F

Examples

• Sky blue (blue sky) are different things

• India Gate = INDIA GATE

• Can banana be of green color

How works ?

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNHR6IQJGZs

The art of keyword choice

● Think about what you’re trying to find● Choose words that you think will appear on the page● Put yourself in the mindset of the author of those words

Special Characters

• § ¶ ¥ £ € © ® ≠ √≅

• [ C++ ][ C# ][ #hashtag ] [ Google+ ][ $100]

Chapter – 2

• When search results suggest something new

• Suggestions-as-you-type

• Don’t skip words you don’t know

• Understand different media

Reading the SERP

Different kinds of content

● Web● Images● Videos (including YouTube)● Scholar (scholarly articles and legal opinions)● Blogs● Patents● 3D objects● News● Books● Finance

Chapter 3

Search

• I need a information from uptu (Uttar Pradesh Technical University) website regarding the new ant ragging rules added last week

• One of my friend told that it’s a pdf on their website

Advanced techniques

Operators• Site• Filetype • Minus(-)• OR• “quoted text”• intext

Solution

Chapter 4 - Findings facts faster

• By-image• Search features• Conversions and calculator• Left-hand panel(shifted to top now) and date

range limiting• Foreign pages and "translate"

• How many mm in 1 metre

• 1 km = how many litre ;) ;)

• Whats the VIVO signify for portugese people ?

Chapter 5

• Credibility

• Variant data

• Use quotes to verify a quote

• Using WHOIS

• Occasional misconceptions

Your search is sometimes simple and fast ...... and sometimes it’s a long piece of detective work

Exercise

• Where is this place in Hyderabad

you want to know

• All Sachin that are not Tendulkar

• All mahatmas that may or may not be Gandhi

• A program to swap two variables. Preferrable language is java

My cousin lives in US

• I want to see his house, but how

I don’t have VISA,money And even he is not having camera ;)What I know is his address only10195 Parkwood Dr Apt 1Cupertino, CA 95014USA

Thank you

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