Question about Searching interweb
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How do you gain more specific hits while searching the likes of google?
I'm never sure how to search properly.
For example, I need to find some companies in the UK who do testing of equipment to a certain standard.
I've typed the following, PR2 Testing UK', PR2 Testing companies UK and such like, but the results bring up all sorts of different things. How do I narrow the search to just bring up the companies who do the testing, not explaining it, or what it is etc I know all that, just don't know who does it (first time I've had to deal with it in 7 years).
It's not only for this though, just in general, how do you make things more specific?
Cheers
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I'm never sure how to search properly.
For example, I need to find some companies in the UK who do testing of equipment to a certain standard.
I've typed the following, PR2 Testing UK', PR2 Testing companies UK and such like, but the results bring up all sorts of different things. How do I narrow the search to just bring up the companies who do the testing, not explaining it, or what it is etc I know all that, just don't know who does it (first time I've had to deal with it in 7 years).
It's not only for this though, just in general, how do you make things more specific?
Cheers
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add more into the search
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&client=fi...
I assume pr2 testing is leak detection?
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&client=fi...
I assume pr2 testing is leak detection?
They shouldn't go off target with more info...I tend to pick "general" words that I think will be on the sites..not really much help...
Often I'll take words from results of searches and add them in to refine the search again...eg I put in "PR2 testing" (I've not a clue what it is) then when that VASCO thing appeared in the 4th or 5th result I added in "leak detection" to get more hits..
Often I'll take words from results of searches and add them in to refine the search again...eg I put in "PR2 testing" (I've not a clue what it is) then when that VASCO thing appeared in the 4th or 5th result I added in "leak detection" to get more hits..
You need to put in the kinds of words that the websites you want to find will have on their pages, but which the websites you don't want to find will tend not to have on theirs, and to exclude the words which the unwanted sites are likely to have.
So as a simple example, if you wanted to find the website of a company which offered mobile testing services with a standard callout fee, but wished to not find websites of companies that did reviews of testing services then you could enter the string "Testing service +mobile +callout -review"
The + prefix says that the word has to be present, and the - prefix says that the word must not be present.
So as a simple example, if you wanted to find the website of a company which offered mobile testing services with a standard callout fee, but wished to not find websites of companies that did reviews of testing services then you could enter the string "Testing service +mobile +callout -review"
The + prefix says that the word has to be present, and the - prefix says that the word must not be present.
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