There’s More to Google Than Typing a Few Words I November 21, 2007
Posted by western4uk in Google, Search Engines.Tags: Google, Search Engines, Search Techniques
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How do you find what you want in Google? - Basic Searching
By typing the line:
Fade Library
into Google, you are telling it to find all web pages that contain both Fade AND Library. Hopefully what you’re looking for will be near the top of the search (there were 1,900,000 pages of links when I just looked!) and everything will be fine.
Phrase Searching
However if you type:
“Fade Library”
You’ll improve the search because Google will search for the phrase you’ve typed in and the search will be more precise as a result (it now tells me I have 22,500 pages of links!).
OR Searching
You can use OR (remember to type it in capital letters) to expand search results so typing
Fade OR “Lancashire Care” Library
Will find pages that relate to both the Fade Library and our colleagues and friends at Lancashire Care because Google searches for either Fade OR the phrase “Lancashire Care” in the same web page as the word Library (there’s 1,950,000 of them, note this number is bigger than that in the first search technique which illustrates that OR will expand the search.
If you want help to improve your use of search engines or electronic resources and you work in Liverpool PCT you can contact the library using the form below:
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