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Tips for Searching Effectively with Google

From Marziah Karch,
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Tricks for Great Google Searches

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Ok, you're trying to plan your next vacation, and you'd like to go someplace where you can ride horses. You type "horses" into Google, and you instantly get back results. 1-10 of about 131,000,000! That's far too many. Your vacation will be over before you finish searching the web.
  1. Tricks for Great Google Searches
  2. Add Search Terms
  3. Quotes and Other Punctuation
  4. Think of Other Ways to Say It
  5. Either OR
  6. Check Your Spelling
  7. Look at the Grouping
  8. Save Some Cache
  9. Other Types of Searches

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