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• Choosing Keywords
For best results, it's important to choose your keywords wisely.
Keep these tips in mind:
- try the obvious first. If you're looking for information
on Picasso, enter "Picasso" rather than "painters".
- Use words likely to appear on a site with the information
you want. "Luxury hotel dubuque" gets better results
than "really nice places to spend the night in Dubuque".
Make keywords as specific as possible. "Antique lead
soldiers" gets more relevant results than "old metal
toys".
• Automatic "and"
Queries
By default, Google only returns pages that include all of
your search terms. There is no need to include "and"
between terms. Keep in mind that the order in which the terms
are typed will affect the search results. To restrict a search
further, just include more terms.
• Automatic Exclusion
of Common Words
Google ignores common words and characters such as "where"
and "how", as well as certain single digits and
single letters, because they tend to slow down your search
without improving the results. Google will indicate if a common
word has been excluded by displaying details on the results
page below the search box.
If a common word is essential to getting the results you want,
you can include it by putting a "+" sign in front
of it. (Be sure to include a space before the "+"
sign.)
Another method for doing this is conducting a phrase search,
which simply means putting quotation
marks around two or more words. Common words
in a phrase search (e.g., "where are you") are included
in the search.
• Capitalization
Google searches are NOT case sensitive. All letters, regardless
of how you type them, will be understood as lower case. For
example, searches for "george washington", "George
Washington", and "gEoRgE wAsHiNgToN" will all
return the same results.
• Word Variations (Stemming)
Google now uses stemming technology. Thus, when appropriate,
it will search not only for your search terms, but also for
words that are similar to some or all of those terms. If you
search for "pet lemur dietary needs", Google will
also search for "pet lemur diet needs", and other
related variations of your terms. Any variants of your terms
that were searched for will be highlighted in the snippet
of text accompanying each result.
• Search By Category
The Google Web Directory (located at directory.google.com)
is a good place to start if you're not exactly sure which
search keywords to use. For example, searching for [ Saturn
] within the Science > Astronomy category of the Google
Web Directory returns only pages about the planet Saturn,
while searching for [ Saturn ] within the Automotive category
returns only pages about Saturn cars. Searching within a category
of interest allows you to quickly narrow in on only the most
relevant pages to you.
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