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Here’s a number of powerful tips to help propel your web search and discovery skills to new levels. These are very simply concepts that you can begin implementing right now.

So let's go ahead and get started.

Web Search Tip #1: Add A 'Discovery' Keyword To Your Search

Here are some 'discovery' keyword examples:

tips
articles
guide
checklist
FAQs
resources

So, instead of searching for 'paris travel', search for 'paris travel tips', 'paris travel articles', 'paris travel guide', and so on. Instead of searching for 'buying a home', search for 'buying a home tips', or 'buying a home guide'.

You'll be amazed at the jump in quality search results you'll get. Try it right now:

http://www.google.com

Web Search Tip #2: Add Relevant Keywords To Your Search

For example, let's say you're looking for information related to 'gardening'. If you go to your favorite search engine and simply enter 'gardening' as your query, you'll get a ton of general, mostly useless, results.

But if you add relevant keywords to your search, you can easily narrow your results, depending on the type of gardening information you're looking for:

organic gardening
indoor gardening
rose gardening
vegetable gardening

You can narrow your results even further by adding more relevant keywords to your search:

organic herb gardening
indoor organic gardening
organic vegetable gardening

Web Search Tip #3: Related Searches

For example, if you're looking for information about Germany travel, can you think of any keywords that might help you find information related to Germany travel?

How about:

Oktoberfest
Berlin
Rhine River
Black Forest
Castles

Would knowing these keywords and searching for information about them help in your quest for information about Germany travel?

More than likely, yes!

So, how do you come up with keywords that are related to your main search?

An easy way is to head over to a search engine at www.gigablast.com, and search for your original keyword there.

When you do this, at the top of the results page, Gigablast displays a series of terms it calls Giga Bits, which are terms related to the term you're searching for.

Any of these terms can be clicked on as a basis for a new, but related search. This is a very unique and powerful feature of Gigablast.

Web Search Tip #4: Search A Specific Domain

For example, if I'm looking for information related to Tiger Woods, why search the entire web when www.golf.com probably has all the information you need?

By narrowing your search to a specific site, related to your keyword(s), you can quickly eliminate the millions of pages of clutter that a general web search inherently brings with it.

You can still use Google to do your search (you can search for “Tiger Woods” on www.golf.com), you just need to enter your search in the following way:

“tiger woods” site:golf.com

Notice the addition of: site:golf.com

This tells Google to confine your search to only pages on www.golf.com.

Here's a few more examples of searching for 'Tiger Woods' on specific domains:

“tiger woods” site:cnn.com
“tiger woods” site:golfchannel.com
“tiger woods” site:foxsports.com

Try these queries yourself to get a feel for how it works.

Web Search Tip #5: Search Shortcuts

The Big 3 search engines (Google, Yahoo, and Ask) all offer search shortcuts. They may call them different things, but they essentially all work the same.

Here's how:

If you want the weather for your zip code, head over to Google, and enter the following:

weather 47401

or on Yahoo, do it this way:

weather Berlin

Want a definition for a word? Google, Yahoo, and Ask will all allow you to find it quickly by entering your search the following way:

define wifi

The addition of the term 'define' to your query tells the search engine you're looking for a definition for the word that follows.

These are just a couple of the dozens of search shortcuts the various search engines provide.

With search shortcuts you can quickly find:

The weather
Flight information
Movie showtimes
Gas prices for a zip code
Scores for a particular sports team
Exchange rates
Hotels information for a city or zip code
and much more...

Here are links to the shortcut homepages of the Big 3 search engines. Try these out for yourself. They can be real time-savers.

Google: http://www.google.com/help/features.html

Yahoo: http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/

Ask: http://help.ask.com/en/docs/about/site_features.shtml

Conclusion

You're now armed with some very powerful techniques on how to find the information/content you want online. You just need to use them.

Searching the web really doesn’t have to be difficult.

Happy searching and discovering!

Gilles Cote is an expert at finding stuff online and a self proclaimed information junkie. To discover even more powerful web search tips, visit his lens at http://www.squidoo.com/websearchmadeeasy/

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