In the current time computer and internet helps to everyone in their daily routine. Thousand of people take help from search engine for getting knowledge from internet per day. Mostly people use Google one of the biggest search engine in the internet. As a Google user, you must aware about the speed and accuracy of Google Search. How exactly Google search for the particular word and give the right results in the front of the user. No doubt Google is one of the most powerful search engines, and there is millions of site on the internet so it’s very difficult to find out the exact result among these millions of site. People could also get better results simply by improving their search techniques. If visitors want to get accurate information then they must learn about the accurate use of search syntax. If you make more then a dozen of searches in a day then a small improvement give a dramatic benefit in your routine work. Here are few tips to improve the search technique in the Google. 

Enter a single world: Enter a particular single word according to your topic then press enter, after few seconds thousand of results displayed and gives the relevant information. 

Search more than one keyword at same time: Whenever you search for more than one keyword at a time, Google will also display number of results. The page you get will have all the words in any order; they may or may not be near to each other. For example: XML Java “web services”. 

Search for multiple words: If you enter multiple keywords then Google will try to display that page which contains all multiple words. Google will search for all the words. If you want to specify that either word is acceptable, you put an OR between each item

For example: XML OR JAVA OR “web services”. 

Use quotation marks: If you are searching for a specific phase a name or if there is a sentence that you associate with the page you seek. If you search for say [Alex Roderick] then as a result Google will Show the result of firstly Alex and then Roderick. And it takes little time to find out the data from millions of web sites, because it takes Alex Roderick as two different searchable words. But if you enter the name of Alex Roderick with quotation mark (“ ”) then Google display the whole information about the Alex Roderick for this it takes less time for display the whole information. So it’s good to use the quotes during the search when there is stop and pause in our keywords. There are some words which are ignored by the Google, because they are too common. They include: a, about, are, at, by, from, I, in, of, how, la, that, the, this, to, will, who, what, where, and when. If you search for the group [the smiths] then Google will ignore “the,” the stop word, so it is better to search with the helps of quotation like [”the smiths”]. 

Logically combine search: This query searches for the word “Java” or phrase “Web Services” along with the word “XML.” A stand-in for OR borrowed from the computer programming realm is the | (pipe) character, as in For Example: XML (JAVA | “web services”). 

Use the + Sign: If you search on multiple words and one word which is too important and you want to see the result of that particular words and have some fear can Google include your particular word during search then there is a way to sure that Google include a particular world in the search for this you just put a + sign in front of the particular word then Google must include your particular word in its search and display the result in front of you. Like: word1 +word2 (then Google must concentrate on word2). 

Use the – sign: If you use + sign to add a particular word in the search result then we also use – sign to take one away the word. If you want to specify that a query item must not appear in your results, use a -. (Minus sign or dash).

For example: word1 – word2 (Google automatically ignore word2 during the search) .

Case doesn’t matter: Google doesn’t care whether you type your keyword in upper case or lower case it just gives you the result according to your keywords. 

Use the Operators: In addition to the basic AND, OR, and quoted strings, Google offers some rather extensive special syntax for honing your searches. Google being a full-text search engine, it indexes entire web pages instead of just titles and descriptions. Additional commands, called special syntaxes, let Google users search specific parts of web pages or specific types of information. Specifying that your query words must appear only in the title or URL of a returned web page is a great way to have your results get very specific without making your keywords themselves too specific. Here are some of the common keywords that you can add to your query in Google.

     1. Intitle, allintitle: Restricts your search to the titles of web pages. The variation, allintitle: finds pages wherein all the words specified make up the title of the web page. It’s probably best to avoid the allintitle: variation, because it doesn’t mix well with some of the other syntaxes.

Eg. Intitle: “George Bush”.

allintitle: “money supply” economics.

      2. Inurl, allinurl: Restricts your search to the URLs of web pages. This syntax tends to work well for finding search and help pages, because they tend to be rather regular in composition. An allinurl: variation finds all the words listed in a URL but doesn’t mix well with some other special syntax.

Eg. Inurl: help.

Allinurl: Search help.

      3. Intext, allintext: Searches only body text (i.e., ignores link text, URLs, and titles). There’s an allintext: variation, but again, this doesn’t play well with others. While its uses are limited, it’s perfect for finding query words that might be too common in URLs or link titles.

Eg. Intext: “yahoo.com”.

Allintext: html.

     4.  Inanchor: Searches for text in a page’s link anchors. A link anchor is the descriptive text of a link. For example, the link anchor in the HTML code O’Reilly and Associates is “O’Reilly and Associates.”

Eg. Inanchor: “tom peters”.

      5. Site: Allows you to narrow your search by either a site or a top-level domain. AltaVista, for example, has two syntaxes for this function (host: and domain :), but Google has only the one.

Eg. Site: loc.gov

Site: Thomas. Loc.gov.

Site: edu.

Site: nc.us.

You can also site: operator and exclude the certain domain from a search.

Eg. Google-site: google.com

This is particularly useful for ego searches. You can find out all those sites which mention your name expect your site.

Eg. Bill gate-site: Microsoft.com-site: wikipedia.org

      6.Link: Returns a list of pages linking to the specified URL. Enter link: www.google.com and you’ll be returned a list of pages that link to Google. Don’t worry about including the http:// bit; you don’t need it, and, indeed, Google appears to ignore it even if you do put it in the link.

      eg. Link: www.google.com

     7. Cache: Finds a copy of the page that Google indexed even if that page is no longer available at its original URL or has since changed its content completely. This is particularly useful for pages that change often. If Google returns a result that appears to have little to do with your query, you’re almost sure to find what you’re looking for in the latest cached version of the page at Google

Eg. Cache: www.yahoo.com

     8. File type: Searches the suffixes or filename extensions. These are usually, but not necessarily, different file types. I like to make this distinction, because searching for filetype: htm and filetype: html will give you different result counts, even though they’re the same file type. You can even search for different page generators, such as ASP, PHP, CGI, and so forth-presuming the site isn’t hiding them behind redirection and proxying. Google indexes several different Microsoft formats, including: PowerPoint (PPT), Excel (XLS), and Word (DOC).

Eg. Homeschooling filetype: pdf

“Leading economic indicators” filetype: ppf

     9. Related: Finds pages that are related to the specified page. Not all pages are related to other pages. This is a good way to find categories of pages; a search for related: google.com would return a variety of search engines, including HotBot, Yahoo!, and Northern Light.

Eg. Related: www.yahoo.com

Related: www.cnn.com

      10. Info: Provides a page of links to more information about a specified URL. Information includes a link to the URL’s cache, a list of pages that link to that URL, pages that are related to that URL, and pages that contain that URL. Note that this information is dependent on whether Google has indexed that URL or not. If Google hasn’t indexed that URL, information will obviously be more limited.

Eg. Info: www.oreilly.com

Info: www.nytimes.com/technology

     11. Define: Will get the definition of the term that you have entered. This syntax can be used to get the definitions of words, phrases, and acronyms

Eg. Define: dreaming

This query will get you the definition of the word dreaming

     12. Numrange: If you want to search for a range of numbers then you can use two dots (without spaces) to represent a range of numbers.

Eg. Inventions 1850…1899

This query will get you all the inventions between 1850-1899

     13. Safe search: If you include safesearch: in your query, Google will exclude adult-content.

Eg. Safesearch: breasts

This will search for information on breasts without returning adult or pornographic sites.

     14. Stocks: If you start your query with stocks:, Google will interpret the rest of the query terms as NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX, or mutual fund stock ticker symbols, and will open a page showing stock information for the symbols you specify.

Eg: Stocks: goog

This will show information about Google’s stock. Specify ticker symbols not company names. If you enter an invalid ticker symbol, you’ll be told so and given a link to a page where you can look up a valid ticker symbol. 

The Special Syntaxes:1. Currency Conversion

      Google makes it easy to calculate money conversions from one form of currency to another.

      Eg: $5 in yen the above query will let you know that five dollars is worth about 566.599846 yen.

     If you’re not sure of the name of a currency, use nationality instead.

     Eg: 25 Australian money in Italian money
this may sound awkward but it does the job.

     Eg: $5 in Indian money
this will let you know that 5 US dollars is worth about 224.477976 Indian rupees

     You can even convert units in this fashion.

     Eg: $2.85 per gallon in British money per liter this query will tell you that it is about 42 pence per liter and provides an international basis for discussing gas prices at the pump.

     2. Check Airfares

When you google for the names of two major cities, Google automatically offers to search for flights.

Eg: Denver Fort Lauderdale
In the form labeled “Flights from Denver, CO to Fort Lauderdale, FL”, enter a departure and return date and choose whether to search using Expedia, Hotwire or Orbitz. Do not use quotation marks in your initial search. Denver “Fort Lauderdale” will not bring up the flight search form.

3. Find Song LyricsIf you are looking for the title or lyrics of a song then you can use Google search phrases and wildcards to find them. 

 In the end these are the few tips and technique how we can search in the google so that we get accurate data from the search. 

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, and providing Web Design and Development Solutions to clients across USA and UK for affordable and sensible prices.

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