Truth to be told: GOOGLE has become today’s every man’s best friend. We type the word; hit the google search button, and scroll through the gazillion results—hence, just google it!
The task may seem easy to do but the effective ways to use the tool are a key to a millisecond-quick search experience.
Use Tabs rather than a New window. Simply download, install and surf online using Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, Flock or any browser with tabs so you can simply right click, open each item in tabs and swiftly toggle among them. Don’t lose the results page. Get to know your browser very well. First things first, log on to the google search site and bookmark it.
Decide and Select. Understand your search topic and be certain of its category and the words related to it. If it happens to be popular, worry no more because as you type the first few letters, you can simply choose from the drop-down list of related search key words arranged according to popularity; then simply click whichever applies. Otherwise, type the key word plus the most related words to it so you can filter your search results. The Copy-Paste strategy works but make sure you omit any punctuation mark or unnecessary space between words.
Bookmark and Save. Scan through each result and discriminate the closest and the most useful items. The search key words are always highlighted in boldface in line with the text description. Optimize your search experience by opening as many items as you can in tabs and bookmark each page. Hitting the star icon atop your browser to see favorite pages, or the house icon to view search history; and saving the page to your computer (File > Save page as…) are the quickest ways to ensure that you still have them in case you get offline.
Explore. In case a link gets you nowhere, simply hit the “cached” or “similar pages” to still view the unglamorous version of the page in which search key words are highlighted either blue or yellow; otherwise, simply hit Ctrl+F on your keyboard and type the search key word. Above all, have the patience and strategy to filter by checking at least the first ten pages of the google search results. Don't miss a thing. Rest assured that the pages you’ve already checked are always highlighted purple.
Be Wise. If the tool gives you not a single useful result, enclosing your search key word in quotation marks would certainly help. Also, in case you cannot recall the title of a song but you can sing the lyrics, enter a line or two from the chorus or the artist and voila!
Remember, google search is basically a tagging mechanism. Yes! You can even search your or somebody else’s name or usernames wherever page they appear online—talk about stalking!
There’s certainly a way to hit the hole, just always keep the will to dig it up.
A Helpful Tip: Don’t dare use the advanced search option unless you want to spend the whole day searching. Just google it!
