Search Tip ‘ Filtering your searches
Tuesday, September 14, 2004 16:22
Search engines can now be so effective that it is easy to forget that the use of some advanced features can refine our searches easily. Here are two simple tricks to try when you are next looking for something and the results aren’t coming up with the goods:
Firstly, you can easily exclude certain words from your searches. If you were looking for the information on the original Starsky and Hutch series, for example, you could exclude references to the new film that features Ben Stiller by typing: Starsky and Hutch -Ben -Stiller.
To specify that you want to only include results that contain all the search terms you have typed rather than any, use a + between them, for example: Wayne + Rooney + Manchester + United.
To make use of the Advanced Search functions on the main search engines, try these links:
This article was written by Web Search Workshop UK, a search engine optimisation and marketing consultancy for UK business websites. Contact us today for a free assessment of your website.
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