The internet, a network spanning the globe. Google logs in 2 billion searches per day.
Its hard to imagine how much information is out there. A lot of it is just a click away if you know how to search. Here are some tips to streamline your Google searches, and save you time.

Fine Tune
Operators are functional words or signs that tell the search engine how to connect or separate the given search terms.

The most important ones are…

AND or +
With “AND” or “+” you can link words, so all linked terms are included in the search results. Google automatically searches for all given terms.

Example: sun AND moon or sun +moon
Note the “AND” must be in caps and there is no space after the “+”.

 

 

OR or |
Use these to search for either term.

Example: sun OR moon or sun | moon
Note that again “OR” must be in caps, but in this case there is a space after the “|”.

 

” “
Putting terms in a quote indicates a sentence and will be searched for exactly in this composition.

Example: “the sun lights up the moon”

~
To search for all synonyms of a word, put a tilde directly infront of it.

Example: ~sun
This search will bring back results containing the terms sun, solaris, solar, and a couple less obvious ones.