5 Google Search Tips

For searching information, we use google for searching most of the time. There are problems for searching, if you search a whole bunch of words, they probably will give the separate research results for you. For example, if you search [Millennium Goals address], they will give you a result of Millennium goal, but the [address] don't appear next to it but to appear somewhere in the article.

• keeping the research words together, is to put quote marks "" in front and in the back of the words/sentence you want to keep together. If you put quote marks, you are telling google to consider that exact word in that exact order without any changes. ("Millennium Goal address")

• If you don't want the word to appear in your research, just type a minus (-) sign before a word. For example, if you are typing [Millennium Goal] which you don't want [introduction], you put [Millennium Goal -introduction].

• If there is minus, of course there is plus (+). If you add a plus sign, google will appear straight forward information that you wanted to find. For example, [Millennium Goal]. If I wanted to find Millennium Goal targets, then I'll put [Millennium Goal targets+], then the research might just appear the targets but not history or United Nations' information.

• The fourth tip is to put (*) after the word. That will give you the best matches for the unknown term/word. For example, if you put [Millennium Goal*], that will give the main possibility of the information, like goal 1-8's target and what has been done.

• When you wanted to find a particular site, but wanted to find the information you want there, put [site:] to search a specific website. For example, if I wanted to find Millennium Goals in a website called "Cyber school bus", then I will put [Millennium Goal site:cyberschoolbus.com] in the search box in google. Sometimes, it doesn't work. So if you wanted to make it simpler, then put [Millennium Goal cyberschoolbus], or if not cyber school bus, then specify a whole class of sites. Like [Millennium Goal site: .UN], then it might only go to UN websites from the results.