Saturday, May 30, 2020

Do you use Site_____ in Google searches I DO!

Do you use Site_____ in Google searches I DO! On my blog its hard to find old stuff that Im looking for. I dont understand how the search box works, and if Im looking for a phrase I cant really use it. Enter the SITE search on Google. Check this out: Each color represents the three main things in this search: YELLOW: Simple put site: to tell Google that you want to restrict the search to a specific website.  Dont ever change this it is always site: GREEN: This is the website you want to search on.  My example is on the JibberJobber blog, but you can put in a company site (like apple or intel or whatever). I always put the entire URL, including the http://www, and if you want to do a search on just a portion of the site, you can do that (like Im doing with /blog). ORANGE (or whatever color that is): the search phrase.  This can be one word, of course, or you can do all the cool search stuff you expect to do with Google.  In this example, a phrase is within quotes, which means get me those three words just like they are there I do this regularly to find old stuff on my blog, with over 5 years of posts.  You can do this to do research on companies, openings, people, etc. Heres another example of a Google site search I just did and found some interesting results this shows where on LinkedIn people say Jason Alba I found a discussion where people where talking about me, or referring to me, that I didnt know about before! NOTE: to do this, simply go to Google.com, and put all three elements in the search box.  There isnt a special page you have to go to do do a site search. Have fun with this one! Do you use Site_____ in Google searches I DO! On my blog its hard to find old stuff that Im looking for. I dont understand how the search box works, and if Im looking for a phrase I cant really use it. Enter the SITE search on Google. Check this out: Each color represents the three main things in this search: YELLOW: Simple put site: to tell Google that you want to restrict the search to a specific website.  Dont ever change this it is always site: GREEN: This is the website you want to search on.  My example is on the JibberJobber blog, but you can put in a company site (like apple or intel or whatever). I always put the entire URL, including the http://www, and if you want to do a search on just a portion of the site, you can do that (like Im doing with /blog). ORANGE (or whatever color that is): the search phrase.  This can be one word, of course, or you can do all the cool search stuff you expect to do with Google.  In this example, a phrase is within quotes, which means get me those three words just like they are there I do this regularly to find old stuff on my blog, with over 5 years of posts.  You can do this to do research on companies, openings, people, etc. Heres another example of a Google site search I just did and found some interesting results this shows where on LinkedIn people say Jason Alba I found a discussion where people where talking about me, or referring to me, that I didnt know about before! NOTE: to do this, simply go to Google.com, and put all three elements in the search box.  There isnt a special page you have to go to do do a site search. Have fun with this one! Do you use Site_____ in Google searches I DO! On my blog its hard to find old stuff that Im looking for. I dont understand how the search box works, and if Im looking for a phrase I cant really use it. Enter the SITE search on Google. Check this out: Each color represents the three main things in this search: YELLOW: Simple put site: to tell Google that you want to restrict the search to a specific website.  Dont ever change this it is always site: GREEN: This is the website you want to search on.  My example is on the JibberJobber blog, but you can put in a company site (like apple or intel or whatever). I always put the entire URL, including the http://www, and if you want to do a search on just a portion of the site, you can do that (like Im doing with /blog). ORANGE (or whatever color that is): the search phrase.  This can be one word, of course, or you can do all the cool search stuff you expect to do with Google.  In this example, a phrase is within quotes, which means get me those three words just like they are there I do this regularly to find old stuff on my blog, with over 5 years of posts.  You can do this to do research on companies, openings, people, etc. Heres another example of a Google site search I just did and found some interesting results this shows where on LinkedIn people say Jason Alba I found a discussion where people where talking about me, or referring to me, that I didnt know about before! NOTE: to do this, simply go to Google.com, and put all three elements in the search box.  There isnt a special page you have to go to do do a site search. Have fun with this one!

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