What are the best ways of narrowing searches on the internet and finding the right information?

Question

Searchesthat I am making are coming up with hundreds of results which are way off the mark ... how by using the two or three key word that I want to be able to obtain results that are more useful.

Answer 1

Use speach marks for names and sentances that you do not want the search engine to break up and minus signs for words you don't want to see and plus signs to narrow a search

for example

"Sarah Jane"-surrey+sussex
This will help you find Sarah Jane from Sussex but not a Sarah jane from surrey

Answer 2

Use the advanced search options. This provides you with Boolean search capabilities. It allows your to include only a specific combination of words or omit others.

If this is too complicated the alternative is to place inverted commas around your phrase of interest. This means the engine will only search for those words in that exact juxtaposition.

The advanced options also allows you to search among specific net addresses, e.g., only .co.uk, etc

Answer 3

Hi >
Be VERY specific in your search on the net.
If you type in "Clogs" for example, you may well have 200 items of stuff.
If you say, put in "size 7 ornate wooden clogs, with a purple trim", you may get none at all.
But it seems to work better.
Somewhere in between then.

Bob

Answer 4

use 2 or 3 specific keywords eliminate ifs and ands. for example if youre searching for the price of coffe in thailand, google or yahoo and search thailand coffee price.

Answer 5

If you put "" around your search words then it will search for that specific word structure

Answer 6

if your looking for specific content on a certain site then do this
site:(type here the site url.com) (type here the keyword)

e.g. if i were looking for ipods in apple.com iw would type
site:apple.com ipod