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7 Tips For More Accurate Google Search
« on: Sunday 04 August 13 04:38 BST (UK) »
Adapted from Popular Mechanics magazine. Should be useful for genealogical research:

1) SEARCH scanning site:rootschat.com

searches the site rootschat.com for scanning

2) SEARCH 1900..2000 presidents

finds presidents between 1900 and 2000

3) SEARCH William * Clinton

searches for William and Clinton with any word between

4) SEARCH ancestor

finds results relating to ancestor and to synonyms of ancestor

5) SEARCH related:illinois.gov

finds websites related to illinois.gov

6) SEARCH airplanes filetype:ppt

finds PowerPoint files that include airplanes

7) SEARCH recipes -bananas

finds recipes that don't include the word bananas