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Quotation Marks

If in Google you are looking for a particular phase and not just a group of words, try typing it in quotation marks. Using quotation marks will look for the words you typed into Google in the order you typed them in. Also, they will not search for each separate word. It will search for them together.

 For example, if you were going to search for ‘world records’ you would type it

“World Records”

If you were to type

World records

It would return results that may only include one of the two words in it, which means you would not find what you were looking for. Using quotation marks would eliminate these results.

+/- Keys

The + and – keys are useful when searching with Google. Let’s start with the + key. If you put a + sign before a word or phrase in quotation marks it would prioritize that word or phrase higher than anything else you have searched for. Next I will explain the – key. If you put this before a phrase or word in quotation marks it will eliminate it from the search. Therefore removing any results with that phrase or word in.

For example if you wanted to buy a birthday card you could type something along the lines of:

Buy +”birthday cards” -“eBay”

Dictionary

Google has a dictionary built right into its search engine. It’s quite simple how to use it. Type define then a colon followed by the word you would like a definition for. No quotation marks needed at all for this one.

Here is an example if you still unsure. In this example I will be finding a definition for the word desert, as it is quite often a word people get confused with, so it’s nice to know which ones which. The example is below:

Define: desert

Calculator

The last thing I would like to point out is the calculator that Google has built in. It is meant to be used for mathematical sums you would be able to do on an ordinary scientific calculator. Not all mathmatical symbols can be found on a computer keyboard (such as times or divide) so they have been substetuted for other keys.

Plus +

Minus –

Multiply *

Divide /

If you are still unsure look at my example below. The sum is Five add open_bracket eight multiply eight close_bracket minus open_bracket one_hundred_sixty_two divide six close_bracket.

5+(8*8)-(162/6)