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How to use Google Search effectively - Part 3

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This is part 3 of the series. For part 2, click here . For the first part of the series, click here. Syntax              Now you know what to search for. You have worded your query exactly suited to what you need. Now you can filter those results using commands so that it makes it easier on you to go through them all. Google Search has certain commands and symbols you can use to make your life easier. Here are some that I could think of off the top of my head: If you want a certain word to appear in a search result exactly as you typed it, put it within quotation marks.   If you do not want a certain word to appear in the search results, put a minus (-) sign before it. If you want Google to search for your query on a particular website and nothing else, type ‘site:’ and the website name and Google will filter results accordingly. If you want your search results to contain a range of numbers, p...
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How to use Google Search effectively - Part 2

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This is part 2 of the series. For part 1, click here . Now that you know what to search for, time to talk the talk! Use jargon wherever possible ‘Jargon’ is the term used to describe slang or a technical word which is extremely localised to a certain industry, fraternity, or community. More on that here. The information you are looking for online is usually made available by a person who is knowledgeable in that field (I hope). These people have a certain way of describing things related to their expertise, almost like a sub-language. To better get to this information, you need to use the same language they may have used to describe things. For example, you may not know what a ‘rest’ means in context to music, but everybody who has studied music theory does. You may not know what a ‘vector’ is in context to image processing, but the term is well known to every graphic designer. Referring to the earlier cat logo example, you need to familiarise yourself with the diffe...
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