Impossible Dreams Media » search engines http://www.impossibledreamsmedia.com WordPress Design and Consulting Tue, 05 Jul 2011 07:08:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Google Search Syntax Tricks http://www.impossibledreamsmedia.com/google-search-syntax-tricks/ http://www.impossibledreamsmedia.com/google-search-syntax-tricks/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:31:15 +0000 Chris Jones http://www.impossibledreamsmedia.com/2009/11/18/google-search-syntax-tricks/ google-homepage Most people when they’re searching for something on the web will simply enter whatever it is into the Google search bar and get the results. Fortunately, Google has become better and better at making sense of what you type and delivering you the most relevant search results. You can pretty much type anything in Google now and it will know what you’re talking about.

That said, sometimes you might need to drill down a little further and be a little more specific with your search.

That’s where search syntax comes into play. If you use special search syntax with Google you can sometimes get better results depending on what you’re looking for.

Most people know the basic syntax like using quotations around a phrase to find that exact phrase. If you want to find every instance of the word – social media – then you want to type “social media” into Google. Without the quotes it will show you every instance of the word “social” and the word “media” as well as “social media”.

That’s an easy one you probably already knew, but there is much more advanced syntax you can use as well.

PC Tips Box has a very good article about Google search syntax that covers the basics and the advanced.

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Google Zeitgeist has released its lists of the most popular search terms of 2008.

Here’s the fastest rising searches globally for 2008 as compared to 2007:

  1. Sarah Palin
  2. beijing 2008
  3. facebook login
  4. tuenti
  5. heath ledger
  6. obama
  7. nasza klasa
  8. wer kennt wen
  9. euro 2008
  10. jonas brothers

Click here to see the other Zeitgeist lists.

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Google has announced their popular Google Book Search engine now includes magazine archives in full color, page-to-page, browseable format!!

Read all about it on the Google Blog.

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Rumors are flying around once again that Microsoft may be on the verge of acquiring Yahoo again.

The deal, according to the Times Online, would see Microsoft injecting a new management team into Yahoo! with Jonathan Miller, the former chief executive of AOL and Ross Levinsohn, the former president of Fox Interactive Media at the helm.

Regardless of whether or not Microsoft is successful this time around, I’m betting that sooner or later they’re gonna get Yahoo.

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