8 ways of effective Google and Internet Search

How to make effective Search in Google over Internet 

Try different combination of keywords

Try all different possible keyword phrases combination. Search engines can generally recognize similar terms such as "laptop" and "notebook," they may also prioritize pages containing exact matches for the keyword phrase with which you search.

Exact Phrase Searching

Make use of quotation marks to search for exact phrases. A search such as "Dell customer care" without quotation marks might also return pages with similar phrases, such as "Dell customer" or "Dell care" or " customer care". When you put quotation marks around a phrase, the search returns only results containing the exact phrase which has all DELL, CUSTOMER and CARE together.

Use Boolean Operator

Make use of Boolean operators’ e.g. "AND" in capital letters to return pages that contain all of the words or phrases in the search. For example, searching for the names of two laptop companies (Dell and HP) might return pages in which only one laptop name appears. Type "AND" between the names to return only results in which both Dell and HP names appear. Many search engines also recognizes the operators "AND" "NOT" and "OR"

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Don't use common words and punctuation

Common terms like ‘A’ and ‘THE’ are called stop words and are usually ignored. Punctuation is also typically ignored. But there are exceptions. Common words and punctuation marks should be used when searching for a specific phrase inside quotes. There are cases when common words like ‘THE’ are significant. For instance, Dell and The Dell return entirely different results.

Capitalization

Almost all search engines do not distinguish between uppercase and lowercase, even within quotation marks. The following are all equivalent:

technology
Technology
TECHNOLOGY
"technology"
"Technology"
"TECHNOLOGY"

Cut down of usage of the suffixes

It's usually best to enter the base word so that you don't exclude relevant pages. For example, laptop and not laptops; talk and not talked. One exception is if you are looking for sites that focus on the act of talking, enter the whole term talking.

Maximize the use of AutoComplete

Arranging search terms from general to specific in the search input box will display useful results in a drop-down list and is the most efficient way to use AutoComplete. Selecting the appropriate item as it appears will save time typing. You have several choices for how the AutoComplete feature works: E.g. Use Google AutoComplete. The standard Google start page will display a drop-down list of suggestions supplied by the Google search engine. This option can be a handy way to discover similar, related searches. For example, typing in Kroger will not only bring up the suggestion Kroger Deli but also Kroger Deli coupons. Use browser AutoComplete.

Customize your searches

There are few less known ways to narrow down and customize the number of results returned and optimize your search time:


The plus operator (+): Plus operator directs the search engine to include those words in the result set. Example: Fossil + watch and Fossil + bag will return results that include the word fossil with watch and fossil and bag.