Smart search with Google

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 Keywords

It defines your content – Way to getting your content

For example: You want to find a topic about your project – Lets say “Green buildings in India”

Would you try it finding as,

1. Green buildings in India About 29,80,00,000 results (say some x seconds)

Same
2. Green buildings India About 29,80,00,000 results (say some x seconds)

3. Green building in India About 2,76,00,00,000 results (say some x seconds)

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Choose your keywords wisely!
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Is there another way – YES!

Green buildings AND India

Search using all the possible Keywords
for a topic
Definitely not, NO!

YES!
Sustainable building

Does this play a role? YES These are called “operators”

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 What are Operators?

AND, OR and NOT What do they do?

Examples:

1. Cats AND Dogs

2. Cats OR Dogs
You may use it with any topic: Green buildings AND Sustainable buildings
3. Cats NOT Dogs

Capitalized letters – Google doesn’t give a damn

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 Refining a search

Would you go with

YES, quotes refines your searches.
1. Green buildings in India or “Green buildings in India”
So, is your other options as well.

Asterick - possible results of particular

2. Green build*
keyword

3. Watch range $20 .. $200 Price range - search results by range

4. Define Egalitarian Defines a keyword

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Refining a search

What are my other options?

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 Refining a search by filetype and country

What kind of file do you want?

‣ Pdf

‣ Doc filetypes Filetype:.pdf Green buildings India

‣ Excel

Search by Country

‣ .in

‣ .cn Country extension Site:.in Green buildings India

‣ .tw

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Practice makes a human perfect!
So, PRACTICE..

If not for being perfect, use it for finishing last minute assignments

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