Google is the most popular search engine on the web and hence most of you rely on Google search for finding information. What one needs to understand about Google Search is that you are not actually searching the internet when you use Google. You are searching Google's index or Google's current listing of the internet. Google cannot and won't be able show you a list of everything accessible on the internet. Sometimes it can be difficult to find just the right information you are actually looking for out of the hundreds or thousands of results returned in Google’s search.
Make use of the power searching tips listed in this page, that can help perform more efficient and effective searches on Google. You will also learn tips and tricks to be able to use Google search to its full potential, become a fast and effective fact-finder.
Top 20 Power Searching Tips for Google
|
Serial No. |
Search Strategy |
|
1 |
Think
about what you're trying to find |
|
2 |
Choose
words that you think will appear on the page |
|
3 |
Put
yourself in the mindset of the author of those words |
|
4 |
Word
order matters |
|
5 |
Case
doesn't really matter |
|
6 |
Special
characters don't count ordinarily |
|
7 |
Use
Ctrl + F to find a word on a page |
|
8 |
Look
at Google’s Featured Snippets which
puts a website at the top of Google
SERP |
|
9 |
Make
use of Google Suggest (also known
as Autocomplete) while searching |
|
10 |
Sometimes
it's useful to look at a video suggestion when you
are doing a web search |
|
11 |
Remember
that ellipsis under the SERP snippet means Google has extracted the summary |
|
12 |
Use
Google Scholar for scholarly and
legal search |
|
13 |
Use
the filetype operator to do filtering of content |
|
14 |
To
use advanced search, first do a keyword search. Then click on the Advanced Search options button to
select the parameters |
|
15 |
Look
at the URL folder composition to understand the perspective from which the
Web Page comes |
|
16 |
Use
the Google Date Range skillfully
to check on the authenticity of quotes |
|
17 |
Don't bake your questions into your query |
|
18 |
Use
Google Books to verify a quote |
|
19 |
Work
from simple searches to the complex |
|
20 |
Use
the Street View (Peg Man) function
in Google Maps to get a street
level view of the location you are searching for |