Here are some handy tips for easier, faster searches - The Dallas Morning News

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This week I helped a friend find some information on the internet.

I don’t have any secret search engines, so I’m pretty sure he could have found the same information I did, so today I want to talk about how to refine your internet searches to get to your results a bit faster.

My friend was looking for some stories from a specific website, which narrowed the search parameters right away.

I’ll use myself and the newspaper’s website as an example for what I did for my friend.

I’m also using Google for all these searches, but you can use this on other search engines if you like.

Let’s say you remember a story I wrote about AT&T and you want to find it.

You could start with a search for the words Rossman AT&T without quotes around it.

There were 157,000 results returned.

The first two results are for LinkedIn pages for two people with the same last name who work for AT&T.

The next three results are some of my articles, then there are another few about other people named Rossman.

If you want to narrow the search to a specific site, use the search operator “site” with a colon followed by the website.

A search operator is a bit of simple code that tells the search engine you’d like to refine the search.

So in this example we’d search for Rossman AT&T site:dallasnews.com.

That narrows it down to 308 results.

If you want to get the results from a certain time period (the past month, past year), you can select a button on the search results page called Tools. This selection brings up an option to filter the results for date.

One of the choices is for Custom Range, which lets you enter a start and end date for the search, so you could limit the search to the last six months or a specific calendar year.

There are also search operators to exclude terms. If you want to search for AT&T stories on dallasnews.com that I didn’t write, you can search for AT&T -rossman site:dallasnews.com. The minus sign before a word will ask the search engine to exclude the name from the results.

This will return all the stories on dallasnews.com that mention AT&T without my name (there were about 102,000 pages returned).

Another handy search operator is to put a name or phrase in quotes to find pages with the words in that specific order.

You can find more tips from Google here.

Google also has an advanced search page that has a number of fields you can fill in for finding pages with many different search operators. You can find the advanced search page at google.com/advanced_search.

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