How To Search Effectively In Google

Anyone can type a couple of words into google search engine and get lots of results, but are they necessarily the best results? Answer is No.
In my today's post, I am write about some tips which can make your search more effective.

Add Search Terms

The first step is to narrow your search by adding search words. How about horse riding? That narrows the search to 35,500,000. Google's results now show all the pages that contain the search terms "horse" and "riding." That means your results will include both pages with horse riding and riding horse. There's no need to type in the word "and."

Stemming Words

Google automatically searches for variations of the words you use, so when you search for horse riding, you're also searching for ride and horses.

Quotes and Other Punctuation

Let's narrow it down to only pages with the exact phrase "horse riding" in them. Do this by putting quotes around the phrase you want to search for. This narrows it down to 10,600,000. Let's add vacation to the search terms. Since we don't need the exact phrase "horse riding vacation," type it as "horse riding" vacation. This is very promising. We're down to 1,420,000 and the first page of results all seem to be about horse riding vacations.

Similarly, if you had results you wanted to exclude, you could use a minus sign, so horse -breeding would yield results of horse without the word breeding on the page. Make sure you put a space before the minus sign and no space between the minus sign and the word or phrase you wish to exclude.

Think of Other Ways to Say It

Isn't another word for a place that hosts horse riding vacations a "guest ranch?" How about "dude ranch." You can search for synonyms with Google, but if you're stuck on something super important, you can also find search terms by using Google Insights for Search.

Either OR

Either of those terms could be used, so how about searching for both of them at once? To find results that include either one term or another, type uppercase OR between the two terms you want to find, so type in '"dude ranch" OR "guest ranch."' That's still a lot of results, but we'll narrow it down further and find one within driving distance.

Check Your Spelling

Let's find a dude ranch in Misurri. Drat, that word is misspelled. Google helpfully searches for the word (477 other people can't spell Missouri, either.) But at the top of the results area, it also asks 'Did you mean: "dude ranch" OR "guest ranch" Missouri"' Click on the link, and it will search again, this time with the correct spelling.

Look at the Grouping

Google indents pages that are talking about the same website or business. This gives you a visual clue that you're looking at the same website, or in this case, a map of directions to the place referred to in the website. You can also restrict your searches to just the Web site's title.

Save Some Cache

If you're looking for a specific piece of information, sometimes it can get buried in a long web page. Click on the Cached link, and Google will show you the snapshot of the webpage that is stored on their server with your keywords highlighted. This can help you scan a web page quickly to determine if it's what you need. Keep in mind that this is old info, and not all websites contain a cache.

Another way to quickly drill down to the results you need in a page with a lot of information is to just use your browser's Control-F (or on a Mac Command-F) function to find a word on the page. Many people forget this is an option and end up wasting time needlessly skimming through a pile of words on a long page. 

Other Types of Searches

Google can help with all sorts of advanced searches, such as videos, patents, blogs, news, and even recipes. Be sure to check the links at the top and side of your Google search results page to see if there's a search that might be more helpful. There's also a More button for more options, in case you can't find the type of results you need. You can also search Google for the address of a Google search engine you can't remember, such as "Uncle Sam Search." 

In our guest ranch example, rather than searching on Google's main search engine, it might be more helpful to search for a dude ranch in Missouri while looking at a map. To do this, click on the Maps link at the top of the screen to go to Google Maps. However, you may notice that this step isn't always necessary. There are maps results already embedded within the search results.

If you're interested in the Bucks and Spurs guest ranch, you can click on the directions link listed underneath the address in the search results. You can also click on the map on the side of the screen. Keep in mind that not every location is going to have a website, so sometimes it's still helpful to search in Google Maps instead of sticking to the main Google search engine. 

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How To Make A Watermelon Basket

Great for parties, school picnics...

Step 1 What you need

Watermelon, a thin bladed knife, a melon baller, an icecream scoop, a marker, other fruits.

Step 2 Mark

The top of the melon as shown

Step 3 with

A long, thin bladed knife, cut out the top of the watermelon, leave the center as handle. Cut the handle to wave shape. 

Step 4 Use

The melon baller to scoop the flesh out

Step 5 Now

You can use a icecream scoop to scrap the inside walls of the watermelon clean

Step 6 If you like,

Cut the handle so it waves a little bit more. Mix other melon balls or fruits with watermelon balls then put them into the basket. 

Best Of Luck..

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How To: Save a cellphone dropped in water, coffee or tea

So you dropped your phone in water or spilled coffee/tea all over it?
Dont worry.. DONOT panic! Nobody will panic now! STOP Panicing..

First of all and most important – DONOT SWITCH ON THE PHONE (if its off already)

And if its on turn it off by removing the battery ASAP.

Take the battery out as soon as possible.

DONOT try to turn on the phone to check if its ok.

It will only worsen  things up.

If you turn on the phone when its wet.. it’ll short circuit the phone and hell will freeze over..

Dismantle the phone as much as you can and as quickly as you can.

Now take a tissue or a soft cloth to wipe the water of the dismantled parts..

Best way is to get a can of compressed air and blow it on your phone to blow the water inside your phone.

If you have a blow dryer.. use it(NOT RECOMMENDED THOUGH) but keep enough distance that the hot air doesn’t harm the components of the mobile phone. (If both unavailable skip to next step.)

Now take a bowl of rice and cover the parts of your phone in the rice completely.

Rice is a desiccant it will help sucking the excess moisture from your phone.

                        Desiccant:A hygroscopic substance used as a drying agent.

Keep it in there for at-least 1 or 1 and a half day.

Take out the parts and asseble your phone..

Check if it works.. Chances are it’ll work. if so.. blow out the rice powder using compressed air or blower(from far).

This method will work only if your phone was dropped in a simple water i.e without any salt sugar

But if you spill tea or coffee on it then..

In that case:

You’ll have to take an extra step to get rid of the clogged salt or sugar. 

After seperating the peices of your mobile dip the parts in alcohol (It may seem that I’m drunk and all but I’m not.. It really works)

For the science students out there.. here’s the reason behind dipping it in alcohol..

“Alcohol is hygroscopic.”

Hygroscopic:Tending to absorb moisture from the air

After soaking the phone in alcohol take out the phone and shake it to remove alcohol from the phone (I know you hate when alcohol is wasted like this.. but No.. licking is not an option here..)

Dont worry if you cant remove all the alcohol from the phone.. as another property of alcohol is that it evaporates at room temperature..

Now, if you still feel there is more salt or sugar clogged inside.. then go buy a bottle of distilled water from some electrician. Distilled water is what they sell to put in invertor batteries.

Soak your phone in that.. sugar and salt will dissolve in it..

Now.. do the remaining steps to dry the phone as explained above.

To Summarize: 

1. Take out the phone from the water or from under coffee/tea.
2. DONOT TURN IT ON.
3. Turn it OFF (if not already), Dismantle ASAP.
4. Soak in alcohol or distilled water if dropped in liquid with salt or sugar.
5. Wipe with tissue or soft cloth.
6. Blow out the water using compressed air.
7. Cover it in bowl of rice for 24-36 hours.
8. Take out and test.
9. Blow off the rice powder using compressed air.

Best Of Luck..

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