6 tips on search
Smarter search in Google 1
If you get too many results, try limiting to a certain filetype.
You can do so by adding "filetype:xxx" where xxx is the extension of the filetype.
For example, if you look for acadmic/official data it is often published in PDF files. Therefore, if you were looking for something about dogs, you should type:
dogs filetype:pdf
posted on 2006-04-23 by tom | comment | save
Using tilde sign (~) in google
Using tilde extends your search to similar words as well. Very useful when you know there are several words that describe what you're looking for.
For example, if you'll search for "~movie", you will get results which use words similar to movie - such as "film", "video", "DVD", and so on. Try it!
Use google cache to browse dead links
You have probably already seen and used the 'cache' link on the google results list. It's useful to get information from pages that do not exist anymore.
But actually, you can often use google's cache to retrieve information from any broken link. Just enter the following string in the google search box:
cache:"broken link"
And hope that google still have the page in their cache.
Submit your site to Search Engines
Use the following links to submit your site to Search Engines:
Google [ http://www.google.com/addurl.html ]
Yahoo! [ http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html ]
MSN [ http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx ]
Open Directory Project [ http://dmoz.org/add.html ]
Rex [ http://rex.skyline.net/add/ ]
Infotiger [ http://www.infotiger.com/addurl.html ]
Netsearch Voyager [ http://www.netsearch.org/addurl.html ]
ExactSeek [ http://www.exactseek.com/add.html ]
LinkCentre [ http://linkcentre.com/addurl.html ]
TrueSearch [ http://www.truesearch.com/addurl/ ]
WhatsNu [ http://www.whatsnu.com/cgi-bin/addlink.cgi ]
Walhello.com [ http://www.walhello.com/addlinkgl.html ]
Dirs.org [ http://www.websbiggest.com/dirorder.cfm ]
Wisenut [ http://www.wisenut.com/submit.html ]
Bookmark!
When you find something interesting, bookmark it. Bookmark it like there is no tomorrow. You never know when you're going to need that link...
Getting word definitions with Google
Every time you do a search in Google, all the keywords appear on top of the results, on the right side of the screen. Note that they are all underlined.
If you click any of these - you'll get to the definition of the word answers.com!
