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Patrick Crispen – Google 201
Filed Under (conference, featured speakers) by wenzloff on 16-03-2007
Go to http://www.netsquirrel.com/ for Patrick’s presentation.
Patrick did a great job explaining how Google works and some myths about good searching. He mentioned some myths in searching as well as giving some tips.
1. Be specific – use a good phrase or four to five words.
2. Use quotes for phrases – it is a myth. You only need to use quotes if it is a two-part phrase.
3. Use pluses – not effective.
4. Use the minus – this is very productive
5. Combine minus and quotes as much as possible
Some fun tips that will help you search.
- Filetypes (include the extension) pirates filetype:pdf/ filetype:ppt
- Inurl: help you find forgotten url’s
- Site: limits what web sites you search site:Disney.com. You can use the minus to exclude sites. You can also exclude domains –site:com
- Cache: good if you need a page, but the site isn’t working cache:Disney.com
- Define: – this is one I use a lot at home and work.
It will be worth your time to check out his presentation notes. However, I don’t think the notes will do justice to what he had to say. If you get a chance to hear Patrick live it is worth your time.
Jim
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March 16th, 2007 at 8:40 am
I can second everything Jim said. Patrick is a great speaker. After only one of his talks I’ll be sure to seek him out at future conferences no matter what the subject is.