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20 Tips for More Efficient Google Searches

20 Tips for More Efficient Google Searches

10 Tips for Conducting a More Effective Google Search Effective searching is a powerful skill. Think about how often you jump over to Google to look something up during your day. If you understand the nuances of a search engine, you have the ability to find what you’re looking for quickly, and potentially find information you may not have specifically thought about but adds value to your query. Like most of us, I’ve been frustrated by unsuccessful searches; sometimes it’s just very challenging to find the right combination of keywords and phrases. Have you reviewed the tips provided by Google for doing better searches? I hadn’t. I’m sharing the top 10 tips I found most useful — some new and some just great reminders. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 9. 10. Sports scores: Type the team or league name. Did you learn anything new?

How to Use Google Search More Effectively Among certain circles (my family, some of my coworkers, etc.) I'm known for my Googling skills. I can find anything, anywhere, in no time flat. Sadly, though web searches have become and integral part of the academic research landscape, the art of the Google search is an increasingly lost one. That search process also included determining when to rely on Google and when to utilize scholarly databases, but on a fundamental level, it appears that many people just don't understand how to best find the information they seek using Google. Thanks to the folks at HackCollege, a number of my "secrets" are out. Infographic via HackCollege Image courtesy of iStockphoto, LICreate A reputation economy via "via:"?: aqualung As posted at the end of last year, 2006 was the year I really got into del.icio.us, in large part due to Cote' pointing me to the "for:" tag (the other large part due to the Firefox extension for replacing the standard bookmarks with del.icio.us tags). The corollary to "for:" is "via:" - if somebody tags something "for:aqualung:" and I like it, I save it too, add some tags of my own, and tip the hat with (for example) "via:JamesGovernor". Go search del.icio.us for THAT tag, and you find (at time of writing) there are 113 occurrences - 113 times that James has alerted somebody to something of interest that the somebody has appreciated, AND tagged it with the "via:". Over time, I would expect this to add to James' whuffie, and for an open-source analyst to be seen as sharing useful information it must be a positive. Anyway - this is the sort of idea that pops into my head when woken for work at 3:30am ... vintage has well and truly started.

TIP: Google Analytics 404 error page Advanced 404 Not Found Error page usage with Google Analytics. This makes it very easy to diagnose and keep track of 404 Error messages from within google analytics. Enjoy! NOTE:You will most definately want to check out and use the Google 404 Error Page. Normal Google Analytics code on 404 error page ^ This default setup for 404 error pages makes it very difficult to find and analyze 404 error page usage stats in Google Analytics <script src=" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript"> _uacct = "UA-732153-7"; urchinTracker(); </script> Advanced 404 Error Page Setup for Google Analytics urchin ^ Since the urchinTracker function has 1 argument which is called "page", this code tells it that the "page" should be /404/? <script src=" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript"> _uacct = "UA-732153-7"; urchinTracker("/404/? My WordPress 404.php page ^ <! Tags ^ July 1st, 2007

Engineering Language/Grammar Skills - Google skills Ditto.Ditto.DITTOAnd we were worried that Google's "search within results" (a) was taken away and (b) was a fraud anyway. Small potatoes compared to this. There was a situation were we were happy that the internet was actually doing the reverse of censoring our results when we were able to get, via the internet, what MSM was denying us... the other side of the story about Climate Change. But think about it. So no wonder that the sides are polarised and getting more polarised all the time. What these filters do is reinforce a bias, concious bias or unconscious bias. The first thing you search for thus colours the selection of what you are offered for the second thing you search for.And so on. It has to mean that each side of an argument will find itself googling and moving further apart and further away from any resolution because each side is actually fed the information that supports their case and denied the information that refutes it. So where does it end? JMWwww.ViscoAnalyser.com

101 Google tips, tricks and hacks Looking for the ultimate tips for Google searching? You've just found the only guide to Google you need. Let's get started: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23, In fact, you can combine any Boolean search operators, as long as your syntax is correct. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33.

FLICKR TOOLBOX: 100+ Tools For Flickr Addicts Flickr is back in the news this week with reports that it will add video. But we're still loving the photo-sharing element: here's 100+ ways to get even more out of the popular photo site. Desktop Applications 1001 for Mac OS X - Allows batch uploading and can notify you of new photos uploaded by your friends. Background Switcher - Will auto-change your desktop background on a Windows machine at intervals of your choosing from a pool of photos you pick. Desktop Flickr Organizer for Gnome - Desktop organizer for Linux that allows online and offline work on your photos and tagging. Flickr and Webimager - Lets you capture your entire screen, or just a portion, and auto-upload it to your account. Flickr Exporter for Aperture - Tag and upload your photos, store ID and URL for your photos in the Aperture program. Flickr Exporter for iPhoto -Edit photos, add tags, resize before loading and several other useful options. Flickr Finder - Mac OS X application for browsing your photos. Firefox Extensions

Getting A Great Haircut Getting a Better Haircut Tip 1: Know how to spot a bad haircut. Two of the haircuts below are bad, one is flawless. Here's what's wrong. 1) In the first photo, there is a visible line between the clipper section and the section that was cut with shears and the neckline is blocked crooked and too high. Blending is poor and the cut looks uneven. 2) In the middle photo, there is a highly visible line in the side of the haircut. Tip 2: Make an appointment. Tip 3: Be nice to your barber. Tip 4: Know what you want and be realistic. Tip 5: Listen to your barber. Tip 6: Know the difference between a blocked and tapered hairline. Tip 7: Find a barber who cuts your style well. Tip 8: Don't be first or last. Tip 9: Find a real barber or men's salon. Tip 10: Tip well. Tip 11: Take a picture. Tip 12: Change it up. DISCLAIMER: The advice I provide is not intended to be a substitute for a personal consultation with a barber or stylist.

google.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object) Mini-Guide to Google Searches At any given moment there are millions of people ‘Googling’ something but very few use the many features associated with the search engine that can refine, define and optimize your search. For example, your Google results will be different if you search for dog or dogs, crazy horse or horse crazy. Google pays attention to the order of your words and if they are plurals but ignores most little words (I, it , an for, of, etc.) and punctuation other than apostrophes, hyphens, and quote marks. So, here are some tips for getting more out of your Google searches and for spending less time searching for elusive tidbits. 1. Typing in chocolate will result in pages on the history of chocolate, a Directory Of Chocolatiers in the states, chocolate making schools, a Thai movie called “Chocolate” and so on. 2. Google searches for all the words you type no matter where they appear on a page, so they may be right next to each other or all over the page. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Related Articles

Blogs » Usability tips for bloggers Now this is an article that grabbed my attention straight away! Often when I think about web usability and usability heuristics I think about it from a commercial perspective. I think about my clients and the type of sites I would normally work on: Finance, government, retail, travel, telco’s… you get the picture. But one genre I haven’t considered in much detail is the blog. Tom Johnson has just published a really useful and well researched article on his blog, I’d rather be writing. I’ll leave it for you to take a look at the post yourself, but in summary his 20 tips are: Let me tell you, if you haven’t already noticed ;), I struggle with the last one and it’s something I’m working on at the moment :) This is a really great list of tips that most of us will be able to work with immediately; many of them you’re probably already doing… But it’s a great check-list to identify ways of improving your blog further.

How-To: Automatically back up your computer We've seen plenty of crazy ways to keep your precious data safe. Some people burn a few tons of DVDs, others make a montly habit of swapping hard drives into a safe location. In today's How-To we'll show you how to automatically keep your data backed up from your computer with ssh and rsync. Feel that? That's our warm comfy safe-data blankie. Check it out. What about backup software? First of all, we're going to need somewhere to keep our data. For our first example, we'll be using Ubuntu Linux on our laptop with our Linux web server. Once you've decided where to keep your data, and what you want to backup on your laptop or workstation, you'll need the tools to keep things rolling. The heart of our -- and many others' -- cross platform backup is a combination of ssh and rsync. For our example, we'll backup /home/willo/data to our server. sudo apt-get install rsync openssh-client This command will copy and update the data inside /home/willo/data to our server's directory /home/willo/data.

2011 Financial Tables - Google Investor Relations Full year financial tables with quarterly data. Google's Income Statement Information Please note: Results from Motorola Home and Motorola Mobile are presented as net income (loss) from discontinued operations on the Consolidated Statements of Income, and are excluded from all other results unless otherwise noted. On April 2, 2014, we issued shares of Class C capital stock as a dividend to our stockholders. (In millions, except share amounts which are reflected in thousands and per share amounts) * Includes stock-based compensation expense. Balance Sheet & Cash Flow Statement Information Please note: Assets and liabilities of Motorola Mobile to be disposed of are presented as "Assets held for sale" and "Liabilities held for sale", respectively, on the Consolidated Balance Sheet as of March 31, 2014. (In millions, except DSO) Supplemental Information (In millions, except headcount data)

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