I always finds it really hard to find the info I need via Google. Does anyone have any tips for making an effective search?
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The best way to refine your search is usually to use the "Advanced Search" function, which allows you to filter your search to find the search terms only in certain forms, in links, pages, etc. and even limiting your search to within a specific website or page. Apart from that, the best thing you can do is to think how a phrase or term would be placed in context, and try to phrase your search in the literal form that you would expect to find it.
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If your search item is more than one word, for example John Lennon, type it as "John Lennon". Without the inverted commas the search would be for anything containing EITHER John OR Lennon so you'd get about 3.4 million hits, with them only pages containing the full name would come up, although that's still 2.1 million. If you didn't want anything about the Beatles you would put -Beatles after his name and this would cut the number of pages found to 1.5 million.
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When searching for something, exclude words like: a, as, like, one. Use only main keywords that specify your search for example. If you're searching for the chinese emperor in 700bc. You could write it like this: "Chinese+Emperor+700BC". If the results are the same use advanced search tab, or use another web search engine. Msn, and altavista are pretty good.
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