Better Search Results with Google: Here’s How

This Google cheat sheet gives you advanced search tricks that you can use to make your searches instantly more effective.

Google is a goldmine for finding information about people, whatever you might be looking for: images, maps, real estate information, phone numbers, and more.

There are a  few simple Google search techniques that will help your searches become more effective almost immediately – you can use these to greatly improve your Google searches.

Google’s cache is an easy way to see what a site used to look like, or to reach the previous version of a site that might have been pulled down (too much traffic, or maybe they didn’t pay their hosting bill).

Google Maps

Google Maps can be a useful way to not only find where you need to go and how you want to get there, but it also gives you the ability to track down landmarks, points of interest, traffic information, and much more.

Google Scholar can be used to find full-length academic papers that you can use as a resource in a research project. This tool is particularly useful for students, especially as Google Scholar gives cite information for the most common academic standards (APA, Chicago, etc.).

Searchers can use Google to search specific domains (like .edu, or .gov, or .net) for all sorts of great information. For example, perhaps you’re looking for census information. You could limit your results to only those that came from a .gov address.