Search Engine Tip Page

Tip #1

Be Specific in your keywords. Broard subject will yield may

results ex. Search for 2004 Grammy Winner Best Hip Hop Album rather than Grammy winners

Tip #2

If you are searching for something that exactly matches your key words put your keywords in quotation marks. Search for " Micheal Vick" instead of Micheal Vick

Tip #3

Search engines ignore common word, digits and letters. If such information is important to your search put a + in front of it. Search for sdjkl;aj;dklj

Tip #4

If you are looking for a website that has two search terms, put OR (uppercase) in between the two terms. Search for Billboard Nelly OR Tim McGraw instead of Billboard Nelly and Tim Mcgraw

Tip #5

To search a topic within certain site type site: followed be the web address into the search bar. Example- all time leading rusher site:www.nfl.com

Tip #6

If you want to search for sites realted to a web site enter related: and the web address into the search bar. Example- related:www.ym.com

Tip #7

If you want to search the sites linked to a web site enter link: and the web address into the search bar. Example- link:www.mtv.com

Tip #8

If all this is just to confusing try the advanced search feature on the search engine to narrow down you search

* these search tips are catered to google.com if you like a different search engine look at thier help section for search tips.