Author Topic: Google Guide "making search easier" (experienced, novices, anyone in between)  (Read 71 times)

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http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators.html

http://www.googleguide.com/

http://googlesystem.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/advanced-uses-for-googles-site-operator.html


Using Google's search page it's fairly easy to narrow the search to just one site, say the PClinuxOS forum

site:.pclinuxos.com/forum enter the search term

Looking for a forum posts that have nvidia in them.

site:.pclinuxos.com/forum nvidia

Looking for forum posts that have nvidia and solved in them.

site:.pclinuxos.com/forum nvidia solved

If these are done via Google's search page you can quickly limit how far back you want to go by using

Any time
Past hour
Past 24 hours
Past week
Past month
Past year
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