Effective Google Search

Today the data is overloaded on google, according to forbes their are 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created each day. If a challenging task for the a user to find relevant information at google. To purpose of the blog is to give a clear understanding to readers, how to do google search effectively. 


Before you do search first you need to ask yourself:

·                 What you have to find?

·                 Is their any nomenclature for product/concept/Service/technology you looking for?

·                 What are the possible sources which will have relevant information?

·                 What is the geography region?

·                 Is their any substitutes?

 To do the google search effective use the below mentioned operators:

 This are the basic Google Operators

Operator 

Outcome

OR

OR is an operator that add mor results to your search

“ “

Use this search for exact phrase

..

Used for defining a range by placing two period between the two numbers


*(Wildcard)

*Use in place of common words in long search statements to work around limit of ten search terms/ Syntax's. Sometimes you want to research a phrase but you don’t know the exact wording. Use the wild card character.

Some of the Advance Operator are:

Operator basic

Outcome

Initiate:

This syntax restricts the search to titles of the website

Inurl:

This syntax restricts the search to URLs of the websites

Intext

This syntax searches for words in only text of the websites

Site

This syntax allows you to limit a search to a site

Filetype

This syntax searches for specific file name extension (.ppt, .xls, .doc , .pdf)


List of free database one can use in reliable data 

Database Name

IMF world economic outlook database

World Bank

WHO

Organization of economic Co-operation and development

Trade Map

Energy information administration

World trade and tourism council

UN Contrade

United Nations - Conference on Trade and Development

Their are also various paid database available for collecting latest updated information. By applying the above mentioned Operators one can search and get much relevant data. There are other advance google search features also available, I strongly recommend to master this basic skills.    

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