This document provides tips for using Google and Live search engines to find information online. It discusses using multiple search engines to access more web content, ignoring common stop words, using keywords strategically, and comparing the two engines. Boolean operators, modifiers, and other advanced search functions are explained for optimizing searches on both Google and Live.

1. Mastering Google & LiVE Search ENGINERithesh Nairhttp://researchersecrets.comhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/rithesh1

2. Search ENGINES (Google/Live)– What is it?2Search Engine = Information

3. Billions of Pages = Resources = Sourcing

4. Sourcing= RecruitingWhy Use Multiple Search Engines?The overlapping links varies for each engines- It means that Searchers relying on a single search engine are missing a vast amount of web content that they could easily find simply by trying their queries on other search engines. http://researchersecrets.com3

5. http://researchersecrets.com4STOP WORDSAll search engines ignore "stop" or “noise” words because they have minimal informational value and are found so commonly in all language.

6. Keyword Quick TipsPut your most important keywords first in the string.

7. Most search engines are insensitive to whether you use upper, lower, or mixed cases in your search.

8. Start with basic search and keep filtering

9. Keep trying different ways to write the keywordhttp://researchersecrets.com5

10. http://researchersecrets.com6COMPARING – Search Engines

11. Boolean OperatorsAND / +The ANDoperator delivers results that contain both the first term and the second term.Example :resume AND J2EE AND strutsGoogle:resume j2ee strutsOR / | The OR operator delivers results that contain either the first term or the second term or both. Example :resume OR CV AND J2ee AND strutsGoogle:resume | cv j2ee struts NOT / - The NOT operator will deliver documents that contain the first word, but do not contain the second. Example : resume OR CV AND J2ee AND struts -job –applyGoogle:resume | cv j2ee struts -job -applyhttp://researchersecrets.com7

12. http://researchersecrets.com8ModifiersQuotations “ “ - Quotation is used to find an exact phrase or title match.Ex:resume | cv "project manager" j2ee -job –applyParentheses( )- Use parentheses to group search queries and build more complicated search strings. Ex:(resume | cv | vitae) "project manager" j2ee (struts | swing)Wildcards *-A wild card will find variations in spelling or different endings.Ex:(resume | cv | vitae) j2ee "software * engineer" –jobsTilde~ - Finds synonyms | related wordsEx: ~cv j2ee ("project manager" | "software * engineer“)

13. BASIC GOOGLE OPERATORSAND (JUST A SPACE IN GOOGLE)

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15. NOT = -

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