5 Ways to Use Google Alerts for Job Search. By Susan P. Joyce Millions of pages of information - and misinformation - are added to the Web every day. Google Alerts can help you stay up to date on what is the most popular and visible, particularly about you and topics that are important to you. What IS a Google Alert? Google Alerts will send you e-mail when new entries (or even a single entry) are added to the top search results for the specific search term you ask Google to monitor. Currently, Google provides 6 different Alert capabilities (see Setting Up Google Alerts) and you'll probably find a need for all of them at some point.
What will a Google Alert do for you? Businesses use Google Alerts to track competitors, potential customers, trademarks, copyrighted material, and many other things. For tips on how to structure your queries for the best results, read the Google-ize Your Job Search (10 Tips plus 3 Tricks) article. 1. What's "out there" about you that a potential employer might find? Hopefully, you know what's out there now. Top 10 Clever Google Search Tricks. Search operators - Search Help. You can use symbols or words in your search to make your search results more precise. Google Search usually ignores punctuation that isn’t part of a search operator. Don’t put spaces between the symbol or word and your search term. A search for site:nytimes.com will work, but site: nytimes.com won’t. Refine image searches Overall Advanced Search Go to Advanced Image Search.
Use filters like region or file type to narrow your results. Search for an exact image size Right after the word you're looking for, add the text imagesize:widthxheight. Example: imagesize:500x400 Common search techniques Search social media Put @ in front of a word to search social media. Search for a price Put $ in front of a number. Search hashtags Put # in front of a word. Exclude words from your search Put - in front of a word you want to leave out. Search for an exact match Put a word or phrase inside quotes. Search within a range of numbers Put .. between two numbers. Combine searches Put "OR" between each search query. Google Ultimate Interface. About Google In 1996-1997, Larry Page and Sergey Brin came up with an algorithm to rank web pages, called PageRank. Realizing the potential to improve search engines, they tried and failed to sell the technology to any.
So they founded Google, which in an incredibly short period of time has become one of the world’s most powerful companies. While primarily known as a search engine, Google now makes a wide variety of web-based and other software and is known for investing in wide-ranging projects outside their core such as through their philanthropic arm, Google.org. Their products are available in almost every country and in a very large number of languages. Google’s enourmously successful advertising business accounts for almost all of their revenue and allows Google to subsidize many other ideas. Google is a market and quality leader in web search, online maps, online video (through YouTube), and areas.
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