The Best Tips for Searching the Internet
Many of us, perhaps unwittingly, we often use the web browser to perform different searches almost every day, even several times, since nowadays virtually all the information that we need to know can find it all over the internet.
In this way, either from our PC, our smartphone or our tablet, we seek those data that can evacuate our doubts regarding a specific topic and usually the majority of users around the world tend to use the search engine of Google, without a doubt, the most popular of the moment.
While Google has a powerful engine that just putting a word or series of words it allows us to access different information in this regard, the truth is that despite their effectiveness at times can not give us the results that we expect.
However, there are a number of tricks that can be implemented when you search in Google and that will enable us to achieve results much more specific and concrete. Then we tell you how to improve your searches on the internet with a simple set of guidelines.
Use of quotation marks: When we need to find an article in particular, either one very specific aspect of a very specific topic, an excellent option is to write a complete quoted sentence in the Google search box, with which achieve outcomes is addressed only to pages that include that phrase, i.e. the same words in the same order.
Use of asterisk in quotation marks: This method is used to specify words unknown or variable, is to say that when we write a phrase in quotation marks and add an asterisk to replace one word, the search engine will give us results where it appears the phrase in its different variants, since in this almost the asterisk functions as a sort of wildcard.
Use of the minus sign: This sign allows us to eliminate those results that contain certain words, and therefore tends to be very useful when we are looking for any word or phrase that the traditional way would deliver a lot of results that do not interest us, so when you add the minus sign and then a Word, will show us results that match our search but which do not contain that term.
Using the file: As expected, Google has a huge archive of news, which can be accessed from this link, and where will find listings thousands and thousands of copies of newspapers dating back to the past, even until the 1880. Also we can use the search, writing a certain term and then by pressing on the button “Search in file”.
Compare products: To buy all kinds of products can use the short form of versus, i.e. vs., to find results of this type. Can use the vs. to be whichever us, even to decide what we are going to eat tonight.
Use of definition, synonyms, and antonyms: To be able to specifically find results that show us what a word means type “definition: Word Search”, to find synonyms wrote “synonyms: Word to search” and antonyms to write “antonyms: Word Search”. We can use this type of search even for words of slang from different countries or acronyms.