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    How to get the best out of google ?

    How does google work ?

    I often go on google to support my arguments and help people who have gone wrong in their thinking

    People will know I’ve Google as the grammar and spelling is generally much improved

    I will try and do the link as others have done

    However am I using Google to full effect or does it have limitations

    I read if a fly landed on the QE2 it would dip by 1/10th of a atom but cant find stuff like that via Google

    Its hard to find stuff re alternatives to global warming big bang etc you have to put in many variations of key words

    There are whole books on subjects like this though

    In a nut shell how does Google work does it have limitations

    For example if I put in

    “The oldest living person alive”

    I would expect to see info on that

    Apart from wikipedia most of the stuff that comes up talks about old dead people


    What am I doing wrong ?

    Hey ive just found this

    Interactive online Google tutorial and references - Google Guide

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    Re: How to get the best out of google ?

    Steward darling, you are rambling

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    Re: How to get the best out of google ?

    Quote Originally Posted by stewart38 View Post
    “The oldest living person alive”
    It helps if you don't search with stupid things. All living people do tend to be alive so if you search for "the oldest living person" - including the quotes so that it treats it as one question - the first response will be exactly what you are looking for

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    Re: How to get the best out of google ?

    using The oldest living person alive” on Dogpile UK Web Search Home Page brings up several links, including an alleged 124 year old mentioned on the BBC pages. This reference was not found by Google, but was by Windows Live and Ask.com

    I try to avoid any words that can be associated with anything someone might be trying to sell. The more unusual the words used the more likely you are to find what you seek. Use links and technical terms from sites that match your requirements for further searches. Other climate change sites might well link to the Wiki one, for example.

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    Re: How to get the best out of google ?

    If you google for "stewart38 is on drugs" , without the quotes, the first response is a forum post that seems to suggest stweart38 would like to legalise all drugs

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    Re: How to get the best out of google ?

    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    If you google for "stewart38 is on drugs" , without the quotes, the first response is a forum post that seems to suggest stweart38 would like to legalise all drugs
    Not as funny as the 4th main result pulled back on Googling stewart38

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    Re: How to get the best out of google ?

    How to use google – an abbreviated guide.

    Rather than thinking about the information you're looking for, think about the page that you will find that information on. Then think about words and phrases that will appear on that page.

    OK, now which of those words will you typically only find together on that page?

    They are the words you should use to search google with.

    If that comes up with too many unwanted matches, you can either use quoted word pairs (or triples) that will be on that page, or you can try eliminating completely useless pages by finding words that appear in the google results that definitely won't be on the page you are looking for, and adding them to the search with a "-" minus in front of the word.

    So, to find info about the oldest living person, I googled first for the quoted phrase, "oldest living". That brought up a lot of good hits, but it included too many pages about oldest living trees and such things, so I just added the word "person" to the search.

    Here's the search...
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