We All Search The Web
To find exactly what you’re looking for can be difficult when you search the web. Sure, there are search engines but how often do we find ourselves clicking on each consecutive page until we realise that none of the information is relevant? Thankfully, there are a few tricks to help you search the web for more accurate results.
By placing quotation marks around your search, it isolates the results to those with just the exact phrasing instead of web pages where keywords appear anywhere throughout. This can save time and effort. Another way to decrease useless results when you search the web is to type in “-“ before each word that you don’t wish to appear. For example, if you were searching for ice cream but weren’t interested in chocolate flavour, typing “-chocolate” would remove all websites from your results that contained “chocolate” and “ice cream” together.
Sometimes, however, when you search the web, limited results appear. To increase the number, it helps to be less restrictive with your phrasing by either first searching the web again with synonyms or related words, or by separating the like terms with a capital “or”. The latter means that web pages, which contain either of the terms, will appear in the results, consequently increasing the number of potential hits.
Lastly, if for example, you wished to search the web for information on government or educational sites only, simply type in “site:” followed by either “.gov” or “.edu” in this case. This will limit all results to those websites with the listed domain extension.
It can be tiring and frustrating to search the web when there are only endless pages of irrelevant information, but with the right know-how, you can confidently search the web to find the results you need. Searching the web will never be a problem again.
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