Google, Yahoo - Search Tips and Shortcuts
A person could go myopic sifting through pages of search results from Google and Yahoo! I keep a bottle of eyedrops on my desk just for that reason. Unfortunately, nothing can restore the time I lose by a poorly structured search. In a perfect world, I could immediately guess the most effective keywords that might also be the exact keywords selected by a web developer to tell the search engines how to index a specific page. But, there is very little precision in language and, although choosing the right keywords might help lessen the strain on our eyes and our time, learning the capabilities of our favorite search engines will give us the best results.
For example, did you know that certain keywords, or rather “meta terms” trigger more optimized and immediate search results? Let’s say you want to know the current weather in El Paso, Texas. Enter the following as your search terms:
weather el paso
and immediately, you’ll see the temperature and forecast for that day. Here’s what Google showed me for June 20, 2006, as the top search result. With this information, I had no need to browse any of the other search results.
Weather for El Paso, TX, 93
Tags: features, Google, internet, keywords, search, Search engines, shortcuts, tips, yahooAugust 12th, 2008 No Comments posted in Computers and Internets
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