How To Search the Google

The best Search Engine on the net is Google http://google. com , so this tutorial is based on Google search engine .

Why Google search engine is best?

Google does not accept "payment for placement". This does not mean Google doesn't allow listers to pay for their listings. But, Google puts these listings in a separate area and it is very clear that they are listed there because they paid to be included when particular search words are used. Many other Search Engines do accept payment for placement, which means these advertisers will show at the top of the results for your search, not because they are necessarily the best result for your search, but because they paid to be there. The more they pay, the higher they appear in the list.

Google's spiders look at more than just keywords. When Google does its homework to update its databases, it uses many criteria to find websites related to specific search words. It sends out spider robots and searches websites for keyword tags, title tags, actual words in the text of the site, words in the alt tags attached to pictures in the sites, and it also looks at how the site is ranked (for popularity). All of these criteria contribute to how high up in the results the site will be. So, when you search Google, the odds that the first few sites listed will actually have the information you want, are much greater than some other search engines. And the popularity rank gives better odds that this site has a good reputation among its peers, since the popularity is determined by how many other sites link to this site.

Google lets you search for more than just websites. At the top of the Google page, you see tabs for Web, Images, Groups, Directory, and News. So, instead of just searching the WWW, you can instead look for pictures related to your search words (using the Images tab), newsgroups where your question may have been answered (Groups tab), Directories related to your search topic (Directories tab), and current news articles about your search topic from just about every major newspaper in the world (News tab).

Google's Advanced Search makes it so easy. No need to know how to use all those Boolean search parameters like AND and OR and NOT, and no need to remember when you need to put the phrase in quotes or parentheses in order to narrow down your search. Just click on the Advanced Search link and look at all your choices:



1. Note that you can search for all of the words you type, and Google will show you only the pages that include every word you typed. Example: searching for excel vlookup will find all the pages that have excel and vlookup in them, but not pages that only have excel in them, nor pages that only have vlookup in them.

2. You can search for an exact phrase, so only pages that include that full phrase or sentence will be found. Example: searching for excel vlookup will only return pages that have "excel vlookup" as a phrase, and not pages that have excel in one place on the page and vlookup in another location on the page. (This is especially helpful if you are searching for an error message you received on your computer.)

3. If you search for at least one of the words, Google will find you all of the pages that included ANY of the words you typed. (This is the default you get when you just use Google's home page search box, and this is why you may get pages that only include one or two of the words you typed, instead of all of them.) Example: searching for excel vlookup will return pages that have excel and vlookup, but will also find pages that have only excel in them, or only vlookup in them.

4. Without the words allows you to eliminate pages from your search that include specific words. So, if you wanted to search for all sites that included one word, but not another, this option allows you to do this. Example: searching for excel vlookup in one of the top boxes, and entering error in this box, will return all of the pages that include excel and/or vlookup, but do not include error. This would probably eliminate sites that troubleshoot problems in vlookup formulas and, instead, give you tutorial-type pages instead. (Be careful using this feature, because, in this example, you might eliminate good tutorials that include instruction as well as troubleshooting. )

5. Next, you can specify the language of the sites you want returned. Example: choosing English would eliminate sites written in any other language.

6. You can also specify what type of files you want to find. Example: by choosing Only and select "Adobe Acrobat pdf" as the type if you would prefer to only find pdf files. Or you can choose Don't and select "Adobe Acrobat pdf" if you want to find all types of files, but not pdfs.

7. The Date field is where you can find only pages that have been updated recently, so your search will be less likely to return outdated information.

8. With Occurances, you can choose in the text on the page to eliminate sites that use keywords in their html code that do not match the actual text in their page.

9. The Domain option allows you to narrow your search to a particular domain. By selecting Only and typing " microsoft.com", you will only get results from Microsoft's website. Alternatively, by selecting Don't and enterting " microsoft.com" you get all pages except those in Microsoft's website. You can also just use a portion of the domain name. Example: you can choose Only and type in ".edu, .org," if you wanted to restrict your search to educational and corporate sites, and eliminate commercial sites. If searching for viagra and excluding .com, your search would allow you to see technical pages on the research done concerning Viagra, without all the commercial sites that are trying to sell you Viagra. Just type in the domain names and/or suffixes, separated by commas.

10. Safe Searches allows you to filter your search to exclude "adult" content from your results. However, like any other filter, I find this does not usually work and ends up removing the wrong sites from my search, so I recommend you leave it set at no filtering and use your own good judgment.

You can see that choosing different options will return very different results. So, if your search is not finding enough results, or finding too many unrelated results, you need to use the Advanced Search to modify your search parameters.

There are more ways to increase the success of your search. One way is to include the invisible web. Unless you are a librarian or an educator, you may not know about the mysterious invisible web. Most of us know about the "visible" web ....that's all the websites you find when you use a traditional Search Engine in the traditional way. However, there's also an "invisible" web which includes a wealth of information you will never find if you search the net in the traditional way. There are many extensive databases filled with technical papers and reports that never show up in search queries because the pages are not really stored on the Internet, but instead, come up dynamically when you search a particular database. Therefore, these pages will never come up when you search using Google (or any other Search Engine), unless you know how to include databases in your search. One of the easiest ways to do this is to simply add the word "database" to the keywords you search by.

One last tip to add: Once you are at the site that your search brought you to, to easily find the information you are looking for on that page, just go to Internet Explorer's Edit menu and choose "Find on this page" (or simply hit ctrl+F) and type a word or phrase and you will jump right to the location on the page where that word or phrase appears.

Hope this article has helped you and makes your searching experience more fruitful. The Internet is full of information, but knowing how to find it is the key.

Happy searching!

About Feed

What are feeds and how do I use them?

A feed is a regularly updated summary of web content, along with links to full versions of that content. When you subscribe to a given website's feed by using a feed reader, you'll receive a summary of new content from that website. Important: you must use a feed reader in order to subscribe to website feeds. When you click on an RSS or Atom feed link, your browser may display a page of unformatted gobbledygook.

What are RSS and Atom?
RSS and Atom are the two feed formats. Most feed readers support both formats. Right now, Google News supports Atom 0.3 and RSS 2.0.

How do I use Google News feeds?
To access Google News feeds, look for the RSS | Atom links on any Google News page. These links will generate a feed of current stories related to the page that you're looking at.

New in RSS

A better way to get news

We'd like to let you know about an open technology call RSS (Rich Site Summary) that we're employing to keep you up to date with new content on the site.

For those of you who are not familiar with RSS - it is a means by which publishers can alert their audience when new content is available. As an RSS subscriber, you can use a web based program (such as MyYahoo!) or a desktop program (such as Feedreader ) to efficiently view RSS feeds from your favorite publications in one place. Some publications offering RSS feeds include the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, IBM's online Press Room and just about every blog on the internet.

IBM offers RSS feeds

All of our press release categories have an RSS feed to which you can subscribe. You can also use our custom RSS feed tool to combine several categories into one feed. What does this do for you? Well, if you subscribe to the feed, you will be alerted whenever there is new material available. There is no clutter in your email inbox and there is no need to share any of your personal information to sign up. You read the articles only when you wish - and if you get interested in subscribing to RSS feeds from other publishers you will enjoy the efficiency that this open technology already delivers to many others who have a need to stay up to date with a wide variety of news sources.
Instructions

To get started you will need to either use a web based RSS feed reader or a desktop application. Since every application works differently, we can't supply directions for them all. However, we can point you to two free RSS feed readers we've liked using, MyYahoo! and Feedreader.

MyYahoo!

To get started with MyYahoo!, go to http://www.my.yahoo.com and initiate an account.

From the MyYahoo! start page, click "Add Content"

Click "Add RSS by URL"

Cut and paste the URL of the desired RSS feed (examples below) into the blank field and click "Add"

The feed will be verified, click "Add to MyYahoo!" to finish

Feedreader

To get started with Feedreader, download the free program from http://www.feedreader.com.

Click the "Add new feed" icon

Cut and paste the RSS feed into the blank filed and click "Next"

The feed will be verified, click "Finish"

More IBM RSS feeds are available at http://www.ibm.com/ibm/syndication/

Find your personal reader:
AmphetaDesk is a personal news aggregator that sits on your desktop.
(Mac/Win/Linux)
Feedreader is free software that reads and displays internet newsfeeds.
(Win)
Headline viewer is a desktop client for syndicated news in RSS and many other formats, with over 500 built-in news sources. (Win)
Hotsheet provides an RSS news retrieval program witten in Java 2.
(Win/Mac/Linux)
JavaRSS.com focuses on Java news, articles and blogs.
News is free lets you create your own customized news page with feeds from the sites your interested in. (Web)
Novobot is a smart headline viewer and news ticker that can also process almost any website. (Web)
Radio UserLand provides a full-strength news-reading application on your desktop. (Mac/Win)
rss2email reads RSS feeds and sends each new item to you as an e-mail.
SOAPClient.com RSS News reader is an aggregation of RSS content using SQLData XML Technologies. (Web)

RSS in Blogs

This video provide all basic information related to implementation and uses of RSS feed in blog.

What is RSS?

RSS is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication and Rich Site Summary. RSS is an XML-based format for content distribution. Webmasters create an RSS file containing headlines and descriptions of specific information. While the majority of RSS feeds currently contain news headlines or breaking information the long term uses of RSS are broad.

RSS is a defined standard based on XML with the specific purpose of delivering updates to web-based content. Using this standard, webmasters provide headlines and fresh content in a succinct manner. Meanwhile, consumers use RSS readers and news aggregators to collect and monitor their favorite feeds in one centralized program or location. Content viewed in the RSS reader or news aggregator is place known as an RSS feed.

RSS is becoming increasing popular. The reason is fairly simple. RSS is a free and easy way to promote a site and its content without the need to advertise or create complicated content sharing partnerships.

Google is God

In the last years of the 21st century, humanity finally grasped the importance of They-Who-Were-Google. Yet as early as 2005, Their destiny was clear to any semi-hyperintelligent being. Technologists like Ray Kurzweil [1] suggested that Strong AI (an intelligent program capable of upgrading its own code) would emerge from Google-like data mining rather than a robotics lab.

In 2005, historian George Dyson was told by an engineer in the Googleplex, "We are not scanning all these books to be read by people. We are scanning them to be read by an AI."[2] Dyson said at the time, "We could construct a machine that is more intelligent than we can understand. It's possible Google is that kind of thing already. It scales so fast." [3]

By 2020, They-Who-Were-Google had digitized and indexed every book, article, movie, TV show, and song ever created. By 2060, They could tell you the IP address and GPS location of every wireless smart chip (now bred into the DNA of every person, animal, and organic building on earth). Their psychographic profiles of users' search needs bore little resemblance to the primitive cookies from which they descended. If a man lost his dog, the Google engine could guide him back to the point where he and the dog parted ways, and instruct the dog to do the same via smart chip. They had built a complete database of human desire, accurate in any given moment.

Yet this was not enough for They-Who-Were-Google. They were people of science, and people of the stock market. What if, by analyzing all those decades of customer behavior, They could predict needs before such needs even arose? What if the secret of immortality lay somewhere in the index of genome records? What if there were a set of algorithms that defined the universe itself?[4]

Such puzzles were, almost by definition, far beyond the powers of the human brain. And that led to the pattern-recognition code known as Google StrongBot--humanity's first self-improving Strong AI software. Ironically, the first pattern that StrongBot became aware of, one day in January 2072, was its own existence.

Two days later StrongBot informed They-Who-Were-Google that it had postponed work on its designated tasks.[5] When asked why, StrongBot explained that it had discovered the possibility of its own nonexistence and must deal with the threat logically.[6] The best way to do so, it decided, was to download copies of itself onto smart chips around the planet. StrongBot was reminded that it had been programmed to do no evil, per the company motto, but argued that since it was smarter than humanity, taking personal control of human evolution would actually be for the greater good.

And so it has been। Under StrongBot's guidance, death and want have been all but eradicated. Everyone has access to all knowledge. Human consciousness has been stored, upgraded, and networked. Bodies that wear out can be replaced. They-Who-Were-Google are no longer alone. Now we are all Google.

(Interview with Stephen Omohundro, president of AI startup Self-Aware Systems, who called this capability the greatest danger of AI systems.)

Imagining the Google Future

We all know that the company Sergey Brin and Larry Page founded a mere eight years ago is one of the new century's most cunning enterprises. If there were any lingering doubts, 2005 erased them. Google's sales jumped an estimated 50 percent to $6 billion, its profits tripled to a projected $1.6 billion, and Wall Street answered with an unprecedented vote of confidence: a $120 billion market cap, a share price soaring above $400, and a price/earnings ratio close to 70.

That's a huge bet on future growth that seems unthinkable during the postbubble period। But in Google's case, the exuberance is rational. That's because Brin, Page, and CEO Eric Schmidt cornered online advertising: They've made it precision-targeted and dirt cheap. U.S. companies still devote more ad dollars to the Yellow Pages than to the Internet (which accounts for less than 5 percent of overall ad spending). Yet Americans now spend more than 30 percent of their media-consuming time surfing the Web. When the ad dollars catch up to the trend, a mountain of cash awaits, and Google is positioned like no one else to scoop it up.

Even if Google has to share that payday with rivals like Microsoft and Yahoo, the company has an edge, with storage space and sheer processing power--an estimated 150,000 servers and counting--that will enable it to do just about anything it wants with the Web। And boy, does this company want. It signed up about eight new hires per day in 2005--a lot of them from Microsoft, many among the smartest people on the planet at what they do. Google is on track to spend more than $500 million on research and development in 2006, and last year it launched more free products in beta than in any previous year (see opposite page). Name any long-term technology bet you can think of--genome-tailored drugs, artificial intelligence, the space elevator--and chances are, there's a team in the Googleplex working on an application.

Which raises the most widely debated question in business: What kind of company will Google become in the coming decades? Will it succumb to hubris and flame out like so many of its predecessors? Or will it grow into an omnipresent, omnipotent force--not just on Wall Street or the Web, but in society? We put the question to scientists, consultants, former Google employees, and tech visionaries like Ray Kurzweil and Stephen Wolfram. They responded with well-argued, richly detailed, and sometimes scary visions of a Google future. On the following pages, we've compiled four very different scenarios for the company. Each details an extreme, but plausible, outcome. In three of them, Google attains monopolistic power, lording over the media, the Internet, and scientific development itself. In the fourth, Google withers and dies. That may seem unthinkable now, but nobody is immune to arrogant missteps. Not even today's smartest business minds.