Sometimes, no matter how you word your question, Google’s search engine’s results will not come up with what you are looking for. How To Be a Google Power User infographic from Who is Hosting This? tackles the Google search engine problem with a few tips and tricks to help you find the answers to the questions you are seeking.
It’s a familiar frustration for most of us: You type your precise, specific search terms into Google, and expect to find what you need on the first page.
Instead, you’re faced with millions of search results, and the first few links are so off-the-wall unrelated you wonder if you mistyped something.
But your search terms are correct, so why doesn’t Google know what you’re looking for? And how are you supposed to narrow down the millions of irrelevant results?
Luckily, Google has quite a few hidden tips and tricks for searching that will help you quickly find exactly the results you’re looking for.
Just by learning a few formatting and punctuation tricks, you can tell Google how your search terms are related, or exclude certain words or phrases. You can also narrow down your search with criteria like location or pricing, or use Google to search within a single website.
If you’re still not getting the results you need, Google has several other little-known features that can widen your search. Webmasters can easily find images for their websites and blogs with Google Images, and researchers need only visit Google Books or Google Scholar to search through print publications and research papers in any field.
Faster and more accurate searches aren’t the only benefit to becoming a Google power user. Google also has a few hidden functions you can unlock with the right search query, including calculations and conversions, stock quotes and sports scores, and film showings and flight statuses. With the right search, you can get immediate results telling you the current weather and today’s sunrise and sunset times, or quickly look up the definition of a word and get a translation into one of dozens of available languages.
http://www.coolinfographics.com/blog/201…-user.html
Google’s algorithm keeps improving, and without context, it’s hard for Google to know exactly what you’re looking for, especially if your inquiry is highly specific. But there are a few tricks for searching that can help you quickly find the results you’re looking for. Tricks like formatting and punctuation can really help narrow down your search.
And why would you want to become a Google power user? To help you save time, it’s all about productivity.
http://tech.co/google-power-user-infographic-2015-01
Google search tricks: http://gappstips.com/
Google images: https://images.google.com/
Google Goggles: https://play.google.com/store/apps/detai…veil&hl=en
Google Trends: https://www.google.com/trends/
Google Books: https://books.google.com/
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ca/
