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Ever gone to
Google
, typed in what you wanted, only to be yielded with terrible results? It has happend to most of us more than once. There are many different methods and characters you can put in your searches to enhance your results.

These are just a few of the things you can do with Google to enhance your search results. Google grows bigger by the day and continues to add more features for its users. Hope this helps!

1. Quotations

   This is the easiest and probably the best way to get what you’re looking for. If you’re just searching for one word, this isn’t necessary. But if you’re wanting to type in a few different phrases, quotes can help you get better results. Say you wanted to do a search for a Led Zeppelin cover band. You could type in “Led Zeppelin” “Cover Band”, and Google will search for websites with those two phrases.

2. Unsure what word to use?

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   Simple, type in both words and seperate them with OR in capitol letters. What this will do is search websites for either one of the words.

3. Need a certain filetype?

   Type in your search criteria, followed by filetype:whatever. So say you’re looking for a .pdf file with a tutorial on photoshop. You would type in: photoshop tutorial filetype:pdf. This will yield all the pages in .pdf that are photoshop tutorials.

4. Can’t find that article on your favorite website?

   With a simple search, you can filter Google to show only results from a certain website. So say you want to do a search on politics from aol.com. You would type in: politics site:aol.com. This will yield anything on aol.com that has the world politics in it.

5. Looking for just the title of the page?

   To do a search of just website titles, all you need to type in is: allintitle: whatever. This will search websites for just the key words you typed in.

These are just a few of the things you can do with Google to enhance your search results. Google grows bigger by the day and continues to add more features for its users. Hope this helps!