Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Turbo charge your Google Search

If you wish to maximise your internet searches just check out the tips on this page.

This is just one great sample of the tips there
"The Place holder *
10. Use a placeholder word.
The "*" essentially represents a placeholder word (aka wildcard), and there a number of ways to use it. For example, if you're trying to look up a conference, but you only remember the first and last word of the conference, you can enter "nonprofit * conference" to look up conferences that include an additional word. Or think of "*" as a fill-in-the-blank test for Google. Enter * founded the Red Cross to learn who started the organization. In addition, if you want to search for terms that don't appear next to each other, add a "*" between them to indicate that one or more words should separate them." – Firth Gowan in Turbo-Charge Your Google Search viewed on Techsoup