Engines
Searching blogs with Google Blog Search
A lot of people aren’t aware of this yet, but one of Google’s Beta projects is a blog search engine. Blogs have an interesting place in traditional search results - because there are so many blogs and the signal-to-noise ratio is so high, it can be difficult to search through all the blog results in your search to find the actual information. Also, because of the speed that blogging moves at, finding the latest and most relevant blog entries can be difficult in traditional searches. Google Blog Search makes it much easier to search through blog entries and to narrow down your results…
Understanding Google Advanced Search
Google’s Advanced Search screen can look a bit daunting at first, but offers some very powerful options to help you make the most of your search. I’ll go through the page from top to bottom, so follow along…
Targeted searching using Google operators
Prefixing your search terms in Google with any of the recognised operators is a great way to streamline your searching. The more information you have about your target, the more specific you can make your query…
Yahoo!ing
Within pretty much any industry, there is competition and web searching is no different. While Google has become a byword for searching these days and owns a clear majority of the search traffic, there are still worthy competitors. The most notable of these is Yahoo!…
Using Google to answer simple questions
As well as being a great search engine, Google can also answer some basic questions you might have without having to visit a different site. Google will automatically pick up many simple queries and attempt to answer them. In most cases, the results if you were to search for the query appear below the answer as well, just like a normal search. You may have noticed this when searching for basic information, but have you tried it for definitions or phone numbers? Keep reading for some more examples of how Google can quickly help you out…
