googling tips?

[Janina Sajka]

My favorite is to use the Linux specific starting point for Google:

http://www.google.com/linux

That way all searches are LInux specific.

Another tip is the Google book available on BookShare.Org. Lots of fun
stuff in there.

John Heim writes:
> 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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