Google Search Tips

[Curtswearing]

I have an extensive listing of favorites (bookmarks for Netscape users). Often I will remember reading an article and I need it to help someone with a post. If I can't find it in my favorites, I go to Google.

To help people out with the way google works, I'm giving a little tutorial.

Lets pretend I want to search for coral food possibilities

If I type in the words coral food, I will get listings of every single page that has the words coral OR food OR coral food together.
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=coral+food

If I put quote marks around coral food like this "coral food" it will only return pages that have both words together. Coral Food in quotes

If I wanted to find all pages that have the exact words "coral food" together but I also want the page to contain the word borneman, I can structure a search like this "coral food" +borneman
I get these results "coral food" +borneman

 

[spooda420]

Curt I realize that your a guru in all fashions, is there a way to upload your SW favorites so we all can have a look see? Is that even possible? Must be a file listing somewhere.

my favorites and all my saved articles were formated away after I had that Sasser worm.

TIA

 

[Curtswearing]

Chris,

Click on my signature line for the Reefkeeping FAQ's....ya might find a few down there LOL. I've been populating the library for 2 weeks and I'm still not done.

 

[NaH2O]

Thanks for the google tips, Curt!

Spooda - definately check out the Resource Library (or ReefKeeping FAQ as Curt put it)....loads of great links.

 

[Curtswearing]

On the other hand I can also use the - (minus sign) in a search. For instance, if I wanted the words coral food to be in a phrase but I didn't want anything that Borneman said I would use this search....

"coral foods" -borneman

 

[DonW]

Heres another useful google tool

Type 250L=?gallons it should return the conversion.

Don

 

[Curtswearing]

Great to know Don.....thanks.

I found out another search tip for RF's new software if you choose advanced search. Suppose I remembered that Mojoreef said something important about salmon but I couldn't remember what it was. I could do a search of all of Mike's posts but that would be a lot of posts. I could do a search for salmon but there might be a lot of posts with the word salmon in it. However, with this new software, I can search for all posts where Mike used the word salmon. This narrows things down a lot.

All you have to do is put salmon as the keyword in the search box AND put Mojoreef in the user name box like this.

Then you get your narrowed down SEARCH RESULTS.

 

[iamjosh]

Other Fun things to Search for on Google

french military victories then press the I'm Feeling Lucky!
wmd then press the I'm Feeling Lucky!
miserable failure then press the I'm Feeling Lucky!
Elmer fudd then press the I'm Feeling Lucky!

Don't blame me for how the internet works, blame Al Gore, He invented it!

 

[Curtswearing]

LOL.

Here's this thread as said by Elmer Fudd

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