Introduction

Since the big growing of the Net, some years ago now, the ‘searchers’ began to be popular. These are web sites where the user can perform searchs using some preferences to be able to find all the information required. There has been a lot of search engines on the Internet history, but on these last years there is one that has grow stronger than all the rest: Google. Let’s find out some more things about this search engine!


Tips to perform a better search with Google

Let’s see first some basic concepts that will help us on our first approach to Google.

• Google uses all the search terms you write on the search box to search.
  • For example: Volunteering citizenship active

• Google ignores the common words and characters. If you want to include words of this kind (as http.com, of, in, it, etc) in your search, you have to precede them of the sign "+".
  • For example: Company + .com

• We can exclude a word of the search writing a sign "-" immediately before the term that we want to exclude (making sure to leave a space in between).
  • For example: Volunteering - Europe

• To look for complete phrases, write them within quotation marks doubles. This search will be of great help to look for sayings or specific names.
  • For example: “Non Profit Organizations”

• Google does not use partial searches, but it looks exactly for the words that we have introduced
  • For example: Organ and Organization give completely different results

• Google search does not differentiate upper and lower case. The searches also do not distinguish accents nor the letter Ñ in Spanish.
  • For example: in French Réunions or Reunions will give the same results

• If you want to look for a word or another one, use "OR" or the symbol "|".
  • For example: Shoe or Clothes shop
  • Another example: Shoe | Clothes shop

We can also use the Advanced search that the own search engine includes. Click on this link and a new page will be opened where we will be able to specify terms as the file format, the language, the date, the domain, the rights of use...


Conclusion

Google is a quick and effective tool to find information in the Internet. To learn how it works helps us to find information more accurate to our needs and saves us time.

If you want more information about other ways of using Google, visit this links.