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January 18, 2010 By Jennifer Gallaher 5 Comments

Google Tip-How to find Narrowed-Down Information

Say you want to do a search on the Colts (the football team) for a sports article you are writing, but want to cut your research time down. Perform this function in the search bar: colts -horses -cars. By first typing in the word you would like to research followed by a space and then a hypen and all other words with same name, you will omit all unnecessary and unrelated pages. If you have more than one word you would like to have omitted from the search, just add an additional space then another hypen and the word. Make sure to only put a space before the hypen, not after it.

Try it and let me know your results!

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Comments

  1. Amber Whitener says

    January 22, 2010 at 5:54 pm

    This is very helpful! You have quite handy Google search tips. Mind if I use your info and link to you from darkbluesun?

  2. virtualassistancebyjen says

    January 22, 2010 at 5:58 pm

    By all means…go for it! Thanks!

  3. Emily says

    June 3, 2010 at 12:35 am

    This is very helpful! You have quite handy Google search tips. Mind if I use your info and link to you from darkbluesun?

  4. Jennifer Gallaher says

    June 3, 2010 at 6:17 am

    Thanks so much for the comment, Emily! Of course you can link to it! I’ll be sure to add some more relevant Google tips soon. Have a great day!

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  1. Find It Quicker | darkbluesun.com Amber Whitener's Misc Blog says:
    January 22, 2010 at 8:37 pm

    […] For words that have multiple meanings read the following short article: narrow-down your search results. […]

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