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Finding info about photography on search engines

Sunday, July 5th, 2009    Subscribe To Our Feed

If you have been using the web for some time then it might astonish you to realize that in some countries it is still new and the need for such guides is in high demand. I have taken the time to share with readers of this site this piece of article to assist those who are interested in photography and are new on the web.

It is now very easy to find any kind if specific information about about photography quickly. A few years ago you needed to take the whole afternoon at the library searching through hundreds of books for help on this topic.

Today you can simply take 5 minutes or less and just like that you have a huge categorized and highly relevant list to choose from about photography or specific topics of the same subject.

So many people end up spending hours clicking through each of the hundred or so pages displayed on search engines.

Below I present some of the most useful operators you can use in order to make your search effective. My aim is not to flood you with too much information that you can’t use but I simply want to provide exactly what you need without wasting your time. I understand that some readers of this site already know some of this information but for the beginners online this will prove to be helpful.

These tips can work in most search engines but I base most of them on Google.

Use of commas in your search query can help you narrow you search to the pages with the exact information you want. For instance to find a college course about photography, you should type “photography courses”, If for example you want careers just enter “photography careers”. What you will get there is a list of pages that contain the exact words searched for.

Another alternative is to use the “+” operator. For instance, if you enter a term like “documentary about photography”+ “photography books” will show you pages that contain both those topic within the page. 

You can enter the word “site:” then follow with the domain name and lastly the keyword.As mentioned earlier this will show results from that particular website only.

By following these tips you should be in a better position to find anything online, whether it is about your internet in - photography or information you may need in the near future like reverse search cell phone number.

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