Google Search Tip
Dec 31st, 2008 by Nut
Ever have trouble finding things on search engines? Here is one quick tip that some of you out there may not know about:
Using quotation marks makes it A LOT easier to find things.
When you enter two or more words into a search engine with quotes around them (like this: “this blog rocks”), the search engine will see the whole thing as one word and look for it accordingly.
So if you want to search for ways to find things online, you would search for “Finding things online” and Google (or whatever engine you use) would return pages that have that very string of words (hopefully this post would come up). It works great for finding images too.
Say you want to find this guy:
Searching for “funny mustache” and then clicking on images would get you there.
I mostly use the quotes system to find new articles by some of my favorite writers. For example, I’m a huge David Foster Wallace fan (still), and I was always on the lookout for new articles from him and other authors like Michael Lewis.
Just hit that News button and the latest articles will pop up for whatever you’re looking for. And if you click Blogs on that next page, you can see what the blog world has to say about whatever you’re searching for.
I’ve noticed some people still don’t know this little trick and since I use it so much I wanted to pass it along.
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