How many times have you entered something into a search engine and had 9.25 million returns and 9,249,999 are not appropriate to open at work? How often was the term you searched for baby? Well in Week 1 of the Computing in the Business Environment I learned a little something from a Google Help Cheat Sheet (http://www.google.com/help/cheatsheet.html) that will really help to narrow down my searches in the future.
For example, using the sign” ~” before a search word will also return synonyms. Another great find was the ability to type “site:” and then a search term. This could be very helpful when searching for sites for governments like cities and counties as well as colleges. Instead of returning 7.23 million responses for the search of Chicago, if you type “site: tourism info for Chicago” it will return you useful information. When I did the search just Chicago, 2nd item was a YouTube video of Chicago police shooting somebody. Not really the tourism research you were looking for. I have also researched and found that Yahoo also provides a similar assist to narrow your searches (http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/search/basics/basics-04.html). Using this information will have me save time in the future when researching everything imaginable. Now I can enter the term "blogging for beginners" into Google and hopefully it will teach me how to really Blog Like a Rookie!
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