googling tips?

[Dawes, Stephen]

A little trick that I often use is to put the search in quotes. 
E.G. 
"rsync howto"
Google then treats this as a single search condition, and you eliminate
all the results that are not related to the search string.
So, you don't get a list of howto's that are not relating to rsync, and
you also don't get a lot of chatter about rsync that you aren't
interested in anyways.

You can also expand this method of searching by having more then one set
of quoted text in the search field. 
E.G.
"rsync howto" linux
"initial search string" "another specific search string"

You can also have the site key word added into the search field to have
google look at a desired location:
"search string to look for" site:linux-speakup.org

The best way to learn what google is doing, is to read the address line
in your browser after you have completed a search. This will tell you
all you need to know about how google builds its search string.

At least, that is how I do it.


Steve Dawes
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Email: SDawes at calgary.ca
 
 


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