SEARCH
 • Try the obvious first.
If you're looking for information on Picasso,
enter "Picasso" rather than "painters".
• Use words likely to
appear on a site with the information you
want. "Luxury hotel dubuque" gets
better results than "really nice places
to spend the night in Dubuque".
• Make keywords as specific
as possible. "Antique lead soldiers"
gets more relevant results than "old
metal toys".
Automatic "and"
Queries
By default, Google only returns pages that
include all of your search terms. There
is no need to include "and" between
terms. Keep in mind that the order in which
the terms are typed will affect the search
results. To restrict a search further, just
include more terms. For example, to plan
a vacation to Hawaii, simply type: "vacation
hawaii".
Automatic Exclusion of Common
Words
Google ignores common words and characters
such as "where" and "how",
as well as certain single digits and single
letters, because they tend to slow down
your search without improving the results.
Google will indicate if a common word has
been excluded by displaying details on the
results page below the search box.
Capitalization
Google searches are NOT case sensitive.
All letters, regardless of how you type
them, will be understood as lower case.
For example, searches for "george washington",
"George Washington", and "gEoRgE
wAsHiNgToN" will all return the same
results.
Word Variations (Stemming)
To provide the most accurate results, Google
does not use "stemming" or support
"wildcard" searches. In other
words, Google searches for exactly the words
that you enter in the search box. Searching
for "googl" or "googl*"
will not yield "googler" or "googlin".
If in doubt, try both forms: "airline"
and "airlines," for instance.
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