googling tips?

[Glenn at home]

When I use Google, I usually use just quotes and the plus sign.
For example:
If I was investigating some tips on how much yeast to use for making wine, I 
would use:
"making wine" + yeast
In the above example, the quotes will treat "making wine" as one thing, 
keeping them together, and it will find web pages that also include the word 
yeast, but not necessarily next to the term "making wine".
I know that there a lot of other forms of punctuation to use in a similar 
way, but this has been working pretty good so far.
Glenn
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Heim" <jheim at math.wisc.edu>
To: "speakup" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 8:50 AM
Subject: googling tips?


I'm wondering if anyone would be interested in sharing googling tips. For
instance, when I'm trying to use a tool I've never used before, I google
for "tutorial OR howto <whatever>".

For example, this weekend, I was trying to figure out rsync, so I googled
for "tutorial OR howto rsync". Note that the "OR" is in capitals. That
tells google to use it as a logical operator rather than as a search term.
So google will look for documents with either 'tutorial' or 'howto' and the
word 'rsync'.

But I'm thinking other people might have little tricks they use to find
stuff on google.

Actually, another great tip is just to use google.  I always google before
asking a question here. First of all, it saves time for the readers of this
list. But secondly, you often get more complete answers via google. People
have taken the time to document a lot of these things because of google. In
other words, people create docs so that other people can find them with
google. Naturally, those documents tend to be more complete than what
someone would type in in response to an email question.


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