{"id":2023,"date":"2011-05-17T09:59:08","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T23:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2011-05-17T09:59:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T23:59:08","slug":"refining-your-google-searches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2011\/05\/refining-your-google-searches\/","title":{"rendered":"Refining your Google searches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re like me, you use Google and similar search engines frequently and know a few tricks to make your searches as useful as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few tips you may or may not use &#8211; and if you have some others, please add them to the comments so I can learn them, too!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>restrict a search to one site by using <strong>site:wordconstructions.com.au<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>search for something specific on only one site by using the word and the site only command<strong> report writing <strong>site:wordconstructions.com.au<\/strong><\/strong><strong>\ufeff<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>find the definition of a word with <strong>define:gerund<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>exclude a term from your search using a minus sign, so\u00a0<strong>writer -fiction<\/strong> will bring results for writers without mention of fiction writing<\/li>\n<li>include all similar uses of a word or term by adding the tilde sign; for example, ~ article<\/li>\n<li>maintain certain spelling of a word or term with a plus sign so <strong>+ Sidney<\/strong> will not bring up all the Sydney sites in a Sidney search<\/li>\n<li>use * to replace any word, such as in <strong>professional * writer<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>find related sites using<strong>related:wordconstructions.com.au<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>find a specific file type in a search &#8211; if you want to find only word docs about spelling, for example, you enter<strong> spelling filetype:doc<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>find all sits linking to a site or page using<strong>link:www.wordconstructions.com.au<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>do a general search without risk of finding inappropriate (ie adult) content using <strong>safesearch:breast\u00a0\u00a0 cancer<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>find out about a specific page using<strong>info:www.wordconstructions.com.au\/ebook.php<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>use quotation marks to refine the search to your exact term; that is, <strong>&#8220;business writer&#8221;<\/strong> will give results about business writers only rather than results for all references to writer and\/or business<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hope they help!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re like me, you use Google and similar search engines frequently and know a few tricks to make your searches as useful as possible. Here are a few tips you may or may not use &#8211; and if you have some others, please add them to the comments so I can learn them, too! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,53],"tags":[1217,318,226],"class_list":["post-2023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bit-off-track","category-business-info-tools","tag-find","tag-search","tag-tips"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2064,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions\/2064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}