{"id":667,"date":"2012-06-26T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/26\/state-of-the-art-google-fu\/"},"modified":"2012-06-26T15:50:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T15:50:00","slug":"state-of-the-art-google-fu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/26\/state-of-the-art-google-fu\/","title":{"rendered":"State-of-the-art google-fu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[I strongly recommend this short article if you do any advanced searching. -egg]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/81wyVmN8h7s\/search-masterclass.html\">Search masterclass<\/a>: <br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/craphound.com\/images\/Where-Am-I.jpg?w=625\"><\/p>\n<p>Daniel Russell is a search guru in the employ of Google. He addressed a crowd of journalists with a lecture on the super-advanced search techniques, and posed this riddle: &#8220;What\u2019s the phone number of the office where this picture was snapped?&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/searchresearch1.blogspot.co.uk\/2012\/02\/answer-where-are-you.html\">solution here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>John Tedesco from the <em>San Antonio Express-News<\/em> took excellent notes on Russell&#8217;s speech, and has summarized it for the rest of us. I consider myself a very proficient searcher, but Russell&#8217;s tips were often surprising and enlightening for me. Here&#8217;s a great one:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Force Google to include search terms.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes Google tries to be helpful and it uses the word it thinks you\u2019re searching for \u2014 not the word you\u2019re actually searching for. And sometimes a website in the search results does not include all your search terms.<\/p>\n<p>How do you fix this?<\/p>\n<p>Typing intext:[keyword] might be Google\u2019s least-known search operations, but it\u2019s one of Russell\u2019s favorites. It forces the search term to be in the body of the website. So if you type:<\/p>\n<p>intext:\u201dSan Antonio\u201d intext:Alamo<\/p>\n<p>It forces Google to show results with the phrase \u201cSan Antonio\u201d and the word Alamo. You won\u2019t get results that are missing either search term.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johntedesco.net\/blog\/2012\/06\/21\/how-to-solve-impossible-problems-daniel-russells-awesome-google-search-techniques\/\">How to solve impossible problems: Daniel Russell\u2019s awesome Google search techniques<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<i>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/\">Making Light<\/a><\/i>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=6be21dbe6ad8f42e9e3047d363292ba0&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=6be21dbe6ad8f42e9e3047d363292ba0&#038;p=1\"><\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/tags.bluekai.com\/site\/5148\" width=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.adsrvr.org\/track\/evnt\/?ct=0:dupdmqp&#038;adv=wouzn4v&#038;fmt=3\" width=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/81wyVmN8h7s\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[I strongly recommend this short article if you do any advanced searching. -egg] Search masterclass: Daniel Russell is a search guru in the employ of Google. 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