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Tips for Searching Effectively with Google

By Marziah Karch, About.com

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If you're looking for a specific piece of information, sometimes it can get buried in a long web page. Click on the Cached link, and Google will show you the snapshot of the webpage that is stored on their server with your keywords highlighted. This can help you scan a web page quickly to determine if it's what you need.

We're down to 247,000 results. This is more manageable, and the top results are mostly what we're looking for. Not every result is a business, and not every result is in Missouri, but the summaries below the link give us a good clue about which websites we should examine further.

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