How to use Google searching effectively

          Google is a search engine that many people use to find answers to any sort of question.  There are ways to search Google more effectively.  Many people spend hours and hours searching through the millions of pages of results without finding what they are looking for.  These people are making the mistake of thinking the problem lies with Google.  The relevance and quality of Google's results depends entirely on what the words typed into the box are.  If someone uses poor terms, they are going to receive irrelevant results.  There are a few tips that are great for narrowing down Google results. 

         First, use "quotes" to search for an exact phrase such as [ "write an article" ] this would return pages containing that exact phrase while searching [ write "an article" ] would return pages that contain the word write and the exact phrase "an article".  Second, if you would like to exclude a word or phrase use the "-" symbol. Example [ -write an article ] would return results that have the phrase an article but not the word write.  Third, if you are trying to search the lyrics to a song but can't quite remember the exact words, use the wildcard by including the "*" symbol, to fill in for the unknown word. Example [ Wishing on a * to find ]. This is also useful to search on specific domain's such as [ "write an article tips" *.net ]  Fourth, when searching a phrase in a specific location on the web page, my example is searching only the titles, you may input [ "write an article" "intitle:" ] This will then only search for that term in the specified locations. Other options are "inurl:", "intitle:", "intext:", and "inanchor:"(anchor meaning the text used to describe a link).  Fifth, if looking for the definition of a word simply search [ define:write ].  Sixth, if you are looking for more than one term or phrase, use the word "or" in your search [ write or draw an article ].  And last, if you can't quite recall all of this information the next time you want to search for something - use the Advanced Search link located to the right of the search bar. These tips will surely narrow your results so you can get the information you need with out filtering through thousands of unrelated articles. 

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