google!

I’ve been studying for my CISE exams lately [CISE = certified information security expert... and this post is not to update you on that :-)]... actually while reading a little I came across the various methods that can be used in our Google search in order to categorize our search and reduce the number of search results that we get! I found them interesting and fruitful and so I thought I should share them! [Well you can thank me later]

Google’s Boolean default is AND; that means if you enter multiple words as your search… Google will search for all of them, together and individually as well. Which means the number of search results will increase big time…

E.g.: the search: narmada dam has 120,000 search results!!

To avoid the individual search of words we can use double quotes (“”), which treats the entire text as one query!

E.g.: “narmada dam” now has 24,200 search results.

Besides this I came across a few syntaxes as well:-

Useful syntaxes:

• Intitle

It restricts your search to the titles of the web page.

E.g.: intitle:“narmada dam” will only display results with narmada dam in the title.[i.e.: 2,690 results]

• Intext

It searches for the mentioned words in the body of the result text.

E.g: intext:“narmada dam” will only display results with narmada dam in the body of the result-[ie:103,000 results]

• Filetype

It searches the suffixes of filename extentions.

E.g: narmada dam filetype:pdf will display results of .pdf files on narmada dam-[i.e.: 4,420 results]

So here you go! ... Using these syntaxes can really make Google searches quick … so go on and Google things out!!!!!

Oh yeah and for those of you who are wondering why I used narmada dam as an example everywhere … don’t get distracted! … We were talking about convenient goggling!!