May 23, 2008
Info Skills 101 - Refining Your Query
How do you search? Do you ever to a quick site: limit on Google, or maybe knock out unwanted results with judicious use of "-"?
Some search limits seem to work pretty much everywhere, as this query on Google trends suggests:
(The "-potter element says "but not results containg the word 'potter'"...)
I used a similar technique to try to see if the Chrsitmas spikes for the word 'happy' were down to people doing "Happy Christmas" searches...
But it seems not...? As this query shows:
Merry is very much associated with the phrase "merry christmas"...
Blogged with the Flock Browser
Tags: infoskills
Posted by ajh59 at May 23, 2008 01:15 PMComments