3. Find Quality Free Stuff
If you are searching for free desktop wallpaper or stock images, social media sites combined with Google will be your best solution. The word “Free” in a search query will immediately attract spam. Why sift through all the spam when numerous social media sites have a community of users who have already ranked and reviewed the free content you are interested in. All you need to do is use Google to search through each specified social media site, and whala, you’ll find content ranked by hundreds of other people.
Examples:
site:digg.com free “desktop wallpaper”
site:reddit.com free “wordpress templates”
site:del.icio.us free “stock images”
site:netscape.com free “ringtones”
site:stumbleupon.com “free icons”
4. Find related terms and documents. Adding a tilde (~) to a search term will return related terms.
Example:
~nutrition returns results with the words nutrition, food, and health in them.
5. Restrict your search to a specific file type or remove a file type from your search.
Example:
service oriented architecture filetype:pdf
service oriented architecture filetype:ppt
service oriented architecture filetype:doc
-filetype:pdf to remove Adobe PDF files.
7. Make Google Recognize faces
If you’re searching for images of Paris Hilton and you don’t want any images of the French city appearing in your search result then you can add a special URL parameter in Google’s image search.
Example: Add &imgtype=face to the end of the URL of your image search to just get images of faces, without any inanimate objects.
How can this tool be more useful?
Let’s say you are looking for the person behind or related to a popular brand or perhaps a country. Then you could use this parameter to bring up those results.
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