How to Refine Your Google Search and Get Better Results
12 Tricks for Smarter Google Searching
Millions of people use Google to search and access information but still only few take advantage of its full potential. Most people will type a bunch of keywords and let Google figure it out.
If you don’t know, Google it.
There are actually a few operators you can use in your search queries in order to narrow down the search results. In this article we’ll explore the most popular Google Search operators that can help you use Google more efficiently and get better results.
1. Search for an exact match
When you perform a Google Search with more than one keyword, the engine won’t necessarily return results that contain the keywords you used in the exact order. Additionally, all the engine will also perform some processing on the keywords such as stop word removal (e.g. remove common words such as ‘and’) or stemming (e.g. ‘running’ will be converted to ‘run’) in an attempt to improve the results returned by the algorithm.
