Google is a very powerful device even without power searching, but the power searching that is integrated in google improves how you can limit or/and define you searches to be more precise.
The first tip that was the “site” modifier, which allows you to limit the sites you want to see. For example if you are looking for resources for a research paper and need sources that are good and not someone’s blog or rant about your subject applying the site modifier like so “Christopher Columbus site:.edu” to the end of your search. The google search result now will only give you site that have the ending of “.edu” and only those.
The next tip is the “-” minus operator, this will help with terms or words that have the same spelling like “Salsa”. Using this modifier will take out the parts of the word you don’t want. So for example “Salsa” if you use the modifier like so “-food,-dance,or/and -recipes” it will take out the search terms that are related to the modifier.
The third tip is for need finding the source of a quote or who said the quote. This is simply by applying the “” around the line you are trying to find. This quote modifier will be useful for people finding the source of the quote for papers or if you heard the quote and wanted to check what it’s from to either read it yourself or watch it if it’s a movie.
The fourth tip helps with people need number converted into an other measurement. This is useful for people in biology, math, and for any day needs of dealing with measurement that need to be converted because of situations leaving you having to have change the unit. An example for this is if you measured a fence in meters but the group you hired needs those measurement in feet. You can put into the google search bar “40 meters into feet”, google will pull up it calculator and show you the 40 meters is equal to 131.234 Feet.
The fifth and final tip for my Google Power Search experience that i will leave you with is the image filter tools. The tools implanted into google’s image search help with all sorts of situations. One being if you are looking for photos for a site and need them to follow a certain color scheme you can choose from it’s filter tools the color you want of those photos you are googling for. You can also apply a filter that only shows photos that are not licences affiliated, so that your site or your employers site isn’t hit with charges for the use of that photo.Then if you fine a photo you like but it’s quality could be a little better you can use the similar button on the photo to find the same photo but have the chance to see if there is a better quality one in google.
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