how to search efficiently in Internet ?

google is the most famous search engine , daily we search the things which we need but in some cases it may not give good results.

                                now this tips may helpful to search the info exactly which we need .Google has been fanatical about speed. There is little doubt that it has built an incredibly fast and thorough search engine. Unfortunately, the human element of the Internet search equation is often overlooked. These  tips are designed to improve that human element and better your Internet search skills.

use (-) minus operator

 How many times have you searched for a term and had the search engine return something totally unexpected? Terms with multiple meanings can return a lot of unwanted results. The rarely used but powerful minus operator, equivalent to a Boolean NOT, can remove many unwanted results.ex:-mobile-htc it means returns only htc related pages.

don't use common words

Common terms like a and the are called stop words and are usually ignored. Punctuation is also typically ignored. But there are exceptions. Common words and punctuation marks should be used when searching for a specific phrase inside quotes. There are cases when common words like the are significant. For example  "book"  and "The book" return entirely different results.

capitalization

Most search engines do not distinguish between uppercase and lowercase, even within quotation marks. The following are all equivalent.

for example

                      {

                        search

                        Search

                        SEARCH

                       "search"

                       "SEARCH"

                               }   all gives same result.

drop the suffixes
don't us suffixes and prefixes its better to avoid such things for example books , the book  etc.

drop down list
this is one of the  best concept to search efficiently because when we start typing the name it shows related things so that it reduce the typing time by selecting from the list.

plus oprator(+)
The plus operator tells the search engine to include those words in the result 

star operator(*)
 Google calls it the fill in the blank operator. For example, amusement * will return pages with amusement and any other term(s) the Google search engine deems relevant. 

OR operator (|)
 Use this operator to return results with either of two terms. For example happy joy will return pages with both happy and joy, while happy | joy will return pages with either happy or joy.


site searching
if we want to open a particular site we just type a name of the web page but it returns more pages which we don't want , to overcome this problem its better to type source address off the page ex:-www.google.com

Use browser history

Many times, I will be researching an item and scanning through dozens of pages when I suddenly remember something I had originally dismissed as being irrelevant. How do you quickly go back to that Web site? You can try to remember the exact words used for the search and then scan the results for the right site, but there is an easier way. If you can remember the general date and time of the search you can look through the browser history to find the Web page.