how do I make my search more efficient to find the information I am looking for/
The Google search engine limits only to the first ten words entered in the search bar. So keep your search phrases as short as possible because Google searches words in the order they are typed, so ‘slow train’ would get you a different result than ‘train slow’. Here ae some tips that you can follow.
• INURL: looks only in URLs of web pages.eg. ‘inurl:Cricket’.
• INTITLE: Tells the Google search engine to find words oly in web page titles, for example, ‘initle: Hard disk’.
• INTEXT: searches only in the body text of web pages (not in links,URLs or titles), for example, ‘intext:loose wiring’.
• FILETYPE: A lot of file types searched by Google in addition to standard HTML- formatted ones, for example, typing ‘filetype:doc drive backup’ brings back only Word documents on the subject of drive backup.
Note that only files created with the corresponding programs are returned. They are :- Lotus 1-2-3 (,wk1, .wk2.etc), Rich Text Format (.rtf), Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), Shockwave Flash (.swf), Text (.ans, .txt), Microsoft Excel (.xls), Powerpoint (.ppt).
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