Learn how to make internet searching work for you - The Dallas Morning News

Last week I wrote astir searching the net to solve your tech problems.

The cardinal to rapidly uncovering the close reply is learning however to usage precocious hunt techniques.

Searching for one-word presumption is easy, but arsenic the hunt presumption grow, truthful bash the returns that don’t person thing to bash with your query.

If you hunt for Dallas Cowboys, you volition get returns for the Dallas shot team, the metropolis of Dallas and for ropin’ and ridin’ cowboys.

If you’d similar to constrictive down your hunt to lone the shot Cowboys, enactment the words successful quotes, similar “Dallas Cowboys.”

If you’d similar to find web pages astir existent cowboys, not shot players, you tin usage an exclude term, which would beryllium cowboys -football.

You tin hunt wrong a circumstantial tract by utilizing “site:”, similar searching for Dallas Cowboys videos connected YouTube by utilizing site:youtube.com Dallas Cowboys.

You tin telephone up a full leafage of precocious searches astatine google.com/advanced_search. Here you’ll find hunt boxes with each these precocious searches, positive searches connected a circumstantial language, regions oregon countries and including files of a circumstantial type.

You tin besides crook SafeSearch connected oregon off, which volition filter retired explicit results.

Searching for images

Did you cognize Google tin hunt for images?

If you privation to find pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge,  you tin hunt for that word and click the “Images” nexus connected the results page.

If you person a photograph you’d similar to larn about, you tin bash a reverse representation hunt connected the representation and bring up akin photos.

Want much accusation connected that brew you’re drinking? Snap a photograph of the tin and upload it to Google and you’ll get different photos of the tin with much information.

Searching for news

One of my favourite searches is for news.

Want to find the implicit astir caller articles connected your hunt topic? Try a Google News search.

Want to work a reappraisal of the performance you attended past week? Type successful the sanction of the set and past click News connected the hunt instrumentality page.

News hunt is besides a bully mode to spot what antithetic quality outlets are saying astir immoderate taxable you like.

Other hunt engines

I’ve mentioned Google a batch successful this column, but these tips enactment arsenic good successful different hunt engines.

If you don’t usage Google for immoderate reason, I urge Duck Duck Go (duckduckgo.com) arsenic a bully hunt alternative, and the tract that doesn’t way you oregon stock oregon merchantability your hunt history.

You tin adjacent marque Duck Duck Go your default hunt motor successful astir browsers.

Jim Rossman is simply a tech columnist for Tribune News Service. He tin beryllium reached astatine jrossmantechadviser@gmail.com.

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