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Unlocking Google’s Hidden Potential as a Research Tool (Part 3 of 5)
Now that you are intimate with the range of Google operators to refine your research searches, it’s time to put the knowledge into practice in the real world. It’s also a good time to delve a little deeper into the essential features of the Google interface.
Here, in part three, we’ll apply the secrets of Google in a search for information about the food industry. Then, I’ll share the 20 essential features of the Google user interfaceâ??the virtual place where you spend most of your time interacting with Googleâ??and apply those to our search example as well.
Read MoreUnlocking Google’s Hidden Potential as a Research Tool (Part 2 of 5)
If you’re like most of us, you use Google almost daily as a search tool. But Google is capable of so much more than simple search. You’d be surprised at what Google can do to make your work life more productive and easier on any number of levels. In the first installment of this article series, you learned several ways to refine your Google searches. Here, in Part 2, I will take you through 20 time-saving search operators. If you incorporate these shortcuts into a Google search session, you’ll both save time and minimize frustration.
Read MoreUnlocking Google’s Hidden Potential as a Research Tool (Part 1 of 5)
If youâ??re like me, you use Google every day to find thingsâ??news, technical support, events, tips, research documents and more.
Were you to master Googleâ??s powerful search refinement operators and lesser-known features, over a yearâ??s time you could save days scouring over irrelevant results. Perhaps even more enticing is the promise of elusive nuggets of market research and competitive intelligence out there waiting to be discovered. This five-part series will show you how to find what you need quickly and with laser-like accuracy
Read MoreSpiders like Googlebot choke on Session IDs
Many ecommerce sites have session IDs or user IDs in the URL of their pages. This tends to cause either the pages to not get indexed by search engines like Google, or to cause the pages to get included many times over and over, clogging up the index with duplicates (this phenonemon is called a […]
Read MoreGetting Google to Love Your Website: 50 MORE Questions and Answers (Part 2)
What are some of the tools to measure the success of SEO? How do you get Googlebot to crawl your site more often? And answers to more questions follow!
Read MoreGetting Google to Love your Website – 50 Questions and Answers (Part 1)
How do you know if your site is search-engine friendly? What is the best way to find out the number of people searching for a specific keyword? And 48 other questions answered here…
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