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| Redefining Google search |
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| Google is all about making search user friendly; and Seoloop is all about making client websites Google friendly. That makes me write first article dedicated to Google search. I am going to discuss search syntax and operators to help readers understand and utilize Google search more effectively. First of all a very brief description on “How Google Works”: |
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Google crawls web pages on the internet, copies text & images, and build database with collected data. When we use Google search, it shows us results refined by:
# Word occurrence and prominence on the page,
# Popularity measured by incoming links,
# Approximately other 200 factors in all!
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| Now back to Searching Google. First and basic rule is think about full text and be specific about it e.g. |
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| Hottest sports cars of 2008 vs. 2007 |
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| Use academic and professional language whenever possible |
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| Automobile industry vs. cars, Auto trends |
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| Also try combinations with many inter-related key phrases |
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| Automobile, research, Cars, motor Sports, industry |
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| If you feel like playing specific then try specifying exact phrases. |
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| “Morgan sports car club” |
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| “what you're looking for is already inside you” |
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| Keep out or include a word in search phrase |
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| Apple –fruit |
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| Apple +computer |
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| You can also limit your search to Web page title |
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| intitle:hybrid |
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| allintitle:hybrid cars mileage |
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| Website URL or domain |
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| “nuclear treaty” site:direct.gov.uk |
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| site:edu “search engines” |
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| File type |
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| “search engines” filetype:doc site:edu |
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| Exact phrase definitions |
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| define:nuclear |
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| define:“splash page” |
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After triggering Google search, on the results page you will find:
#Search box to modify and change your search phrase,
#“Cache” to see Google’s index for that page,
#“Related pages” to see more results of that kind,
#“Translate this page” to get Google translation.
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| Google’s other databases are Images, Maps, News, Blogs, Books, Scholar, etc. |
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| I hope this small article will help you use the Google search more effectively. I will keep writing on such topics and make Seoloop more helpful to all visitors, So keep in touch and happy searching.
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