Two Google tips to help you research and find info

I've worked on quite a couple of research projects at my previous consulting jobs. I thought I share two Google tips that I find to be helpful during my researches.

1. Use quotations for your key words. For example, if you are searching for iPhone 3G, instead of typing iPhone 3G, try adding quotations to it like: "iPhone 3G". This way, it will pick up that exact phrase in your searches. This works extremely handy when you need to narrow down search results. In addition, you can also pair quoted phrases together to narrow results even more like: "iPhone 3G" "tethering on AT&T".
   
   
2. Search for something thru a specific site. Sometimes instead of searching through the big ocean of Internet, it might be easy to pinpoint a site (i.e. specific news site), and search through only that site. To do that, simply put this in your search query - site:domainname.com. For example, to search for Coke at TechCrunch.com, you would enter: Coke site:TechCrunch.com . And voila, you'll get results of Coke that's on TechCrunch.

Hope that helps, and thanks for reading!