Googling: How do I find what I'm looking for?
To find something today is easier than ever? Thanks to Google. There is actually only one thing that you should not enter into the search engine: Disease Symptoms - you can always find dramatic entries and then feel worse than before. But what you should definitely google: your name. It's very interesting to know which search results Google provides about itself.
But sometimes you do not find the information you are looking for. Here we explain how to google correctly helpful answers to obtain.
Googling better: phrase search
You are looking for a specific person and give it First and last name on ? and have tens of search results, in which both names appear, but with ten lines of distance and referring to completely different people. The reason: most search engines are looking for a function that allows multiple words to be between the words you are looking for. You can avoid this by typing your search term as a phrase so that Google treats two or more words as one word. Put yours for it Search term in quotes ? so you only find the person you are looking for and avoid unpleasant hits:
Another trick is the so-called wildcard. Let's say you are looking for the British actress Judi Dench, often also written Judy Dench. Enter instead of the "i" or "y" just an asterisk a: Jud * Dench. Google is now looking for both variants.
Googling better: Boolean operators
What sounds like an old math disease is a very simple but effective help while searching: the Boolean operators, named after their developer George Boole (you can googling). Let's say you are looking for "Python", the serpent, and you do not want to get any search results for the junk movies of "Monty Python". So you want "Python" without "Monty" and that's exactly what you enter in the Google search box? mathematically:
The plus stands for what you want, that minus for what you do not want.
For example, if you are looking for a musical that does not take place on a Saturday, but it does not matter if it's shown in Cologne or Düsseldorf, enter the following:
This is already mathematical, but in principle also very easilyThe clip is just for the Or Option.
Googling better: Advanced search
Right next to the Google search box you will find the option "advanced search". Click on it and you will get to a detailed search mask:
Here you can set search parameters like Language, period or file formatsif, for example, you only want to receive PDF documents. It is also possible to specify paraphrases and OR options and to exclude certain words from the search.
Googling better: find blogs, pictures and co
With Google you can search not only websites, but also targeted weblogs, pictures, journalistic articles or scientific papers. To browse pictures, go to the left of the search box and click on "Images" (Web content will be displayed here, unlike the "Photos" menu, where you can upload your own recordings). To go to the blog search, click on "More" above the input field. A menu works, "Blogs" appear in third place. At the bottom of the menu, click "and more" to go to one Overview with further search options get.
If you are looking for scientific documents? by the way also books ? search, now go to "Scholar". If you are interested in articles, click on "News". In the search masks that appear, you can enter your search term and all of them tricks apply.
Trust or not trust? Evaluate search results
A successful search does not just mean using the right terms and commands. It is also important to judge whether a hit is relevant and worth a visit to the site. How do you recognize that? At the headline, the summary of the content and the internet address (URL) in the hit list? It shows you whether the author is competent and serious and you can trust him.
It is also interesting to know how the order of the hits comes about. Google considers content to be important, which is often linked. In addition, a program of the search engine provider regularly browses websites, paying attention to the frequency of certain keywords. If a word often occurs, the corresponding website slides up in the search results. This knowledge is used by some website operators and applies methods that lead to a higher place without having the relevant relevance. The victims: the users who come across the wrong search results. So much the more important that you have such Identify dizziness immediately.
"I google that just for you": Your Adm
If you follow our tips, you can do this in the future Google informer set self-confident:
"What, you're looking for your best friend from kindergarten, have you tried the paraphrasing, or the Boolean operators, wait, I'll just google that for you."
