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General => The Campfire => Topic started by: Camperroo on Oct 09, 2004, 06:08 PM

Title: How do you Google??
Post by: Camperroo on Oct 09, 2004, 06:08 PM
Ok, how do you do a "Google" search?? I can't figure it out.  Suppose I want to look up any info on John Smith in Anytown, CT. In the Google search line, am I suppose to put it with quote marks like "John Smith, Anytown, CT"  or should I not include commas, etc.  I think I'm the only person around who doesn't get this google stuff.
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Post by: brainpause on Oct 09, 2004, 06:44 PM
To look for a person, whitepages.com is a good free site.

If you use a search engine, I like to use +'s and -'s. For example, if I want to look for John Kennedy, but not the ones in Massachusetts, I would type +"John Kennedy", -"Massachusetts".

This doesn't get perfect results, but it is better than typing the whole thing. It also works well for ebay and such.

Larry
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Post by: mike4947 on Oct 10, 2004, 12:42 AM
I agree with Larry Google isn't the greatest at finding people.

What I do is hit the "advanced search" gives you lot's of options to add to a search.
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Post by: Acts 2:38 girl on Oct 10, 2004, 06:09 AM
Although this is a little backwards, if you enter a page #, it will usually pull up the correct name and street address, town, etc. It worked on everybody I knew, except us! It named a guy in the next town over from me!
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Post by: brainpause on Oct 10, 2004, 07:49 AM
A page number???
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Post by: Camperroo on Oct 10, 2004, 05:28 PM
I'm stuck on the page number thing too??