This document provides an overview of search engines and tips for using Google search more effectively. It defines what a search engine is and lists the top search engines in the US, with Google receiving over 1.6 billion monthly visitors. The document then gives various statistics about Google's massive search volume. The remainder of the document provides helpful hints for refining searches, such as using quotation marks for exact phrases, operators like "site:" and "filetype:", and tips for searching for specific types of information like weather, stock prices, and product identifiers.

1. Search
With Better Results
by Hewie Poplock
info@hewie.net
http://hewie.net
Saturday, January 28, 2017

2. The Google Search Page

3. What is a Search Engine?
A search engine is a web site connected to
a database that catalogs other Web sites. It
will search the actual text of other web sites.
A computer search program, or spider,
follows links on web pages to regularly and
automatically rebuild this database.

4. Top Search Engines in the US
Rank Site Visitors/Month Notes
1 Google 1.6B 72+ % of world searches
2 Bing 400M Microsoft
3 Yahoo 300M Verizon
4 Ask 245M Good for specific question related searches
5 AOL Search 125 M Verizon
6 WOW 100M More like a news site
7 WebCrawler 65M Ads more defined
8 MyWebSearch 60M Spyware - Do Not Use
9 Infospace 24M White label
10 info.com 13.5M Aggregates - Structured topics
11 DuckDuckGo 13M Does not store Personal Info
https://searchenginewatch.com/2016/08/08/what-are-the-top-10-most-popular-search-engines/

5. Google processes
• 40,000 search queries every second
• More than 3.5 billion searches per day
• More than 1.2 trillion searches a year globally
Google has permeated our digitally-reliant lives to such an extent,
that the very word ‘Google’ has become a verb.

6. Once you enter a letter
All – Videos – Images – News – Maps - More

7. Search for Videos

8. Search for Images

9. Search for News – Maps - More

10. Settings

11. Tools
Time – Results

12. Time Range

13. Results

14. Let’s Do Some
Searching!

15. Some Hints
• Start simple
• Ignore spelling
• Use web friendly words - instead of saying my head hurts, say
headache
• Less is more - Simple, one or two word search terms will usually give
you the broadest results. Start with short search terms, then refine
your results by adding more words.
• Use descriptive words
• Add words found on resulting pages
• Don't worry about cases - Search isn't case sensitive
• Don't worry about punctuation Search ignores punctuation such as
@ # % ^ * ( ) = [ ] and other special characters.

16. Start Simple

17. If you don't want a term or phrase, use
the "-" symbol.

18. Add words

19. Use Quotes for exact phrase

20. Use phrase

21. Click to see

22. Solving problems

23. The top site is not allways the best or
even safe

24. File types - use the "filetype:" operator

25. Find related pages - try using related:[insert
URL] to locate similar websites

26. Track your packages: Track your UPS,
FedEx, DHL, or USPS packages

27. Tracking

28. Get the time - Search time and the city
or country

29. Current Exchange Rates by searching
[currency 1] in [currency 2]

30. Check the weather with U.S. zip code
or the name of any city in the world

31. Get realtime stock quotes

32. Either/or - use the OR operator -- or use
the "|" symbol (pipe symbol)

33. Compare using “vs”

34. Error Message

35. Type in entire error message

36. Use quotes to search for an exact
phrase

37. Add the word “solution” to eliminate
those with a question and no answer

38. Refine more by choosing “Tools” and a
time period

39. Use the asterisk * as a wildcard

40. Use “DEFINE:” to learn the meaning of
words—slang included

41. Calculator - type in a quick calculation in
the search box and get an answer. Use the
+, -, *, / symbols and parentheses to do a
simple equation.

42. Numrange - Search for a range of numbers
(note the two periods between the two
numbers)

43. Site-specific - Use the "site:" operator to
search only within a certain website

44. Site-specific - Use the "site:" operator to
search only within a certain website

45. Have a UPC code?

46. Search with possible word

47. Similar terms - Use the "~" symbol to
return similar terms.

48. Using Reverse Image Search – You
want to identify an image

50. You can Drag, Upload, or link to a
picture

51. Google tries to guess

52. Good Find – Pendelfin Figurine

53. We found the set

54. Your Search Time should be more
Productive NOW !!