HowTo: Search with keywords and operators
Friday, June 13th, 2008Last night I came to think about the way I preformed searches with the various search engines. So I thought I that might help others.
When you are for something on the internet, you are doing so with words. What most people does not realize is that there are a number of ways to preform a search.
Lets say that I wanted to figure out how to change the kubrick header in the WordPress default theme. In google I might write something like:
HowTo: Change +kubrick header in default +WordPress theme
As you can see above I have put a little plus sign(+), which is called an operator, in front of some of my words. The reason why I have done this is because the plus sign tells the search engine that the word that comes after(kubrick and wordpress) must be in the result. In my above search I chose kubrick and wordpress as my keywords. The reason for this is because theses words tells most about what Im looking for. I could refine my search by including quotation marks around part of the sentence or the whole thing. The search engine would then look that exact line, like this:
“HowTo: Change Kubrick header in default WordPress Theme”
Here is a link to an excellent site that can help you refine your search with google.
Googleguide.com