10 tips to make your search easy and accurate.

10 tips to make your search easy and accurate.

Today, users can easily find the information they want through search engines, but it is still difficult to avoid the unsatisfactory results. In fact, users only need to master a few common skills can easily resolve this embarrassment.
Here are 10 quick tips to use with Google search, and other search engines support these 10 tips.

1. Accurate Search
The simplest and most effective way to do this is to add double quotes to the keyword, in which case the search engine will only respond to the exact results of the keyword.
For example, when searching for "joe bloggs", the search engine displays all of the information that is relevant to "joe" and "bloggs", without giving the keyword double quotes, but these are obviously not the results we want. But with double quotes, the search engine will only feed on the page and "joe the information that matches the bloggs".
Accurate search is useful in excluding common but low-profile information, and can save users from having to sift through the results again.

2. Exclude keywords
If you don't find what you're looking for when you're searching for an exact search, users can exclude information that contains a specific word, using only a minus sign.
For example, when searching for "Joe Bloggs"-jeans", the result feedback you get is a"joe bloggs"entry that does not contain"jeans"words.

3. Search with "either or" (or) logic
In the default search, the search engine will feed back all the results related to query terms, but by using "or" logic, you can get results that are related to two keywords, not just the same results as two keywords. Clever use of "or" search allows you to ensure that search results are accurate when you fail to determine which keyword is determining the search results.

4. Synonym Search
Sometimes it's more appropriate to search for less-specific keywords. You can search by synonyms in cases where the keyword is not accurately judged.
If you enter "plumbing ~university" in the search engine, the results you receive will include similar entries "plumbing universities" and "plumbing colleges".

5. Search within the station
Most of the site's search function is deficient, so the better way is through Google and other search engines on the site to search for information.
You only need to enter "site:theguardian.com" plus keywords on the search engine, and the search engine will feed back all the entries in the site "theguardian.com" and keyword related. This feature will become even more powerful if combined with an accurate search function.

6. Use the asterisk *
Just like the blank squares of jigsaw puzzles, in search engines, we can use asterisks to fill the missing parts of a keyword, whether it's one of a series of words or a part of a word in a "scrabble". Also, you can use asterisks to fill in missing parts when you want to search for an article with a low certainty.
For example, if you enter "architect*" in a search engine, the feedback you get will be all architect, architectural, architecture, architected, Architecting and all other entries with "architect" as the beginning of the vocabulary.

7. Search between two values
A good way to find the answer to a question is to look for information that is relevant to the keyword within a certain range. For example, to find out the British Prime minister for 1920-1950 years, directly in the search engine input "British Prime Minister 1920." 1950"can get the desired results.
Remember that the symbol between the values is two English periods plus a space bar.

8. Search for keywords in the title, link, and subject of the page
Sometimes you may encounter the need to find all the page headings, links, and Web pages that are relevant to the keyword, at which point you need to use the qualifier "inurl:" (for use in URL links), "intext:" (for searching in the body of the page), and "intitle:" (used for search in the title of the page).
For example, entering "intitle in a search engine: The evaluation" will get all the page titles related to the keyword evaluation. "

9. Search for related websites
The relevant qualifiers can be used when searching for related websites. For example, you only need to enter "related:theguardian.com" in the search engine to get all the feedback from "theguardian.com" related sites.

10. Combination of search skill and use
You can combine all of these search skills to narrow or expand your search as you wish. While some skills may not be common, the use of accurate search and site searches for these skills is quite extensive.
With search engines such as Google increasingly understanding the user's natural language, these search skills can come in handy and will probably become less, at least this is the goal that all search engines seek together. But in the present, it is still very necessary to master these search skills.
(article compiled from Theguardian British Guardian)

10 tips to make your search easy and accurate.