1. Mastering Google & LiVE Search ENGINE Rithesh Nair http://researchersecrets.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/rithesh 1

3. Billions of Pages = Resources = Sourcing

5. http://researchersecrets.com 4 STOP WORDS All search engines ignore "stop" or “noise” words because they have minimal informational value and are found so commonly in all language.

7. Most search engines are insensitive to whether you use upper, lower, or mixed cases in your search.

8. Start with basic search and keep filtering

9. Keep trying different ways to write the keywordhttp://researchersecrets.com 5

10. http://researchersecrets.com 6 COMPARING – Search Engines

11. Boolean Operators AND / + The ANDoperator delivers results that contain both the first term and the second term. Example :resume AND J2EE AND struts Google:resume j2ee struts OR / | The OR operator delivers results that contain either the first term or the second term or both. Example :resume OR CV AND J2ee AND struts Google:resume | cv j2ee struts NOT / - The NOT operator will deliver documents that contain the first word, but do not contain the second. Example : resume OR CV AND J2ee AND struts -job –apply Google:resume | cv j2ee struts -job -apply http://researchersecrets.com 7

12. http://researchersecrets.com 8 Modifiers Quotations “ “ - Quotation is used to find an exact phrase or title match. Ex:resume | cv "project manager" j2ee -job –apply Parentheses( )- Use parentheses to group search queries and build more complicated search strings. Ex:(resume | cv | vitae) "project manager" j2ee (struts | swing) Wildcards *-A wild card will find variations in spelling or different endings. Ex:(resume | cv | vitae) j2ee "software * engineer" –jobs Tilde~ - Finds synonyms | related words Ex: ~cv j2ee ("project manager" | "software * engineer“)

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19. * WILD CARDhttp://researchersecrets.com 9

20. http://researchersecrets.com 10 ADVANCED SEARCHES intitle – Searches for a specific word in the Title of the Page Intitle:resume j2ee (“project manager”| "software * engineer") (swing | struts ) -job –apply inurl - searches for a specific word in the URL of the Page inurl:resume j2ee (“project manager”| "software * engineer") (swing | struts ) -job –apply Want better results? Combine intitle & inurl

21. specific file types Narrow your search by looking for specific file types: Good for weeding out HTML files, and job postings. Word = Doc PDF = PDF PPT = PowerPoint XLS = Excel TXT = Text RTF = Rich Text Format (intitle:resume | inurl:resume | intitle:cv | inurl:cv | intitle:vitae | inurl:vitae) ("sap retail" | sap.fico | sap=crm | "sap *") filetype:doc (NJ | new.jersey) -jobs -job http://researchersecrets.com 11

22. Google Site Command site:will search the contents of a specific site only For example: site:linkedin.com accenture sap chicago Will only search www.linkedin.com and will only find Information with the words, Accenture, SAP and Chicago. http://researchersecrets.com 12

23. Live Search http://researchersecrets.com 13 Boolean Operators:- ( )“ “NOT- AND &OR | Live strings are similar to Google. Examples: Intitle (intitle:resume | intitle:cv | intitle:vitae) j2ee “new york” filetype resume (filetype:doc | filetype:rtf OR filetype:pdf) j2ee new.york Intitle and filetype (intitle:resume | intitle:cv | intitle:vitae) filetype:doc j2ee new.york

24. 14 Modifiers inbody: Finds words in the body of the page intitle: Finds words in the title of the page (same as Google) inurl: Finds words in the URL (same as Google) contains: Will only bring up results that have a link to the file type filetype: will only bring up the specific file type you are asking EXAMPLES intitle:resume J2EE contains:doc -job -jobs -send -submit –you intitle:resume J2EE filetype:doc -job -jobs -send -submit –you inbody:resume J2EE -job -jobs -send -submit -you intitle:resume J2EE -job -jobs -send -submit –you (inurl:cv | intitle:cv) J2EE -job -jobs http://researchersecrets.com

25. http://researchersecrets.com 15 Other Ways (using me and my) sap resume (me | my) -job -jobs -submit –you 2. (using –send and –you) sap (filetype:pdf | filetype:doc | filetype:rtf) resume -job -jobs -send -submit -you 3. (using loc:US = pages from the United States (*@aol.com | *@gmail.com | *@hotmail.com | *@yahoo.com) "deloitte consulting" (sap | oracle) loc:US 4. Intitle:skill intitle:sap (resume | cv | vitae) (tx | texas) -job –jobs intitle:j2ee (resume | cv | vitae) -tutorial -job -jobs

27. inanchor:resume j2ee new.york -job –jobs

28. loc: returns web pages from a specific country or region

29. contains:doc (resume | cv | vitae) j2ee loc:US

30. (resume | cv |vitae) loc:US New York j2ee -jobs –job

31. language: searches in a specific language

32. resume j2ee montreal language:fr

33. site: searches only the site you specify (same as Google)