Wednesday, 14 October 2009

Effective Googling - thought I'd pass this along!

How does Google interpret basic search?Google places “AND” operator between all search terms entered in basic search box. Automatically searches for some plural/singular and grammatical variants.

You enter: news readerGoogle searches: news AND reader OR readers

Does not search as exact phrase unless quotes present!

Need Exact Phrase? Use quotation marks!“infosys billion dollar”

Expand Search With Synonym? Use a “tilde”e.g.: “~infosys” finds IT companies similar to infosys

Search by filetype (pdf, ppt, xls, doc)e.g.: “.Net Framework” filetype:ppt

Negative Search Termse.g.: “nano –car” will return the results with word ‘nano’ but not Nano car

Limit your search results to a particular web sitee.g.: “sparsh site:infosys.com” will get the pages from infosys.com where the word ‘sparsh’ is referred `

Search for sites that link to a particular websitee.g.: “link:infosys.com”

You’ve found a useful website & want to find other sites like it:e.g.: “related:www.infosys.com”

Google is a DictionaryFind definition of a word or a phrase?e.g.: define: scruples

BTW, the credit goes to - u guessed it, some techie at Infosys ;-)

1 comment:

Faiyaz said...

Ever tried the boolean search or command?