Looking at Google Page Titles

Series Summary

Google built its reputation as the premier search engine on the internet. But the services the site offers extend far beyond basic search capabilities. Google now includes a calculator, currency converter and a dictionary. Now you can also Google stock quotes, flight and weather information, even movie times. And the site offers several ways to narrow down what can be a bewildering number of responses to your search terms.

In this series of internet navigation videos, our professional systems administrator shows you all the tips and tricks to get the most out of google. He demonstrates how to use all of the features mentioned above, then gets down the business of mastering the search engine. You will learn how to search for specific file types, numbers or series of numbers. Putting quotation marks on both sides of your search phrase tells Google to search for words in that specific order. Using the asterisk, or wild card, allows you to specify file extensions in your search. What can a plus sign or a minus sign do for you? Watch these free videos and you will learn these and many more time-saving techniques for the next time you Google the net.

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Gary for Expert Village. Google has over three billion pages in their index. Sometimes we need to wait a search, more specifically or put some search criteria help us narrow down actually what we are looking for. So there are some certain syntactics or certain key words that you can put in your search field that would help you only look for certain elements or characteristics of the web page. In other words we can limit it to for example, the title you may only want to search for our subject that is only mention in the title of the website. So what we would do is type in title and we would put a colon and quotations so lets put in Pearl Harbor. Now this is only going to return results this search would return results that are where Pearl Harbor is actually mention in the website which may be a very specific search that we are doing. So when we hit our Google search we would see all the title of the website has in it somewhere mention Pearl Harbor. We see here that the wikipedia inter Pearl Harbor or we have here the history site from the navy that photo of Pearl Harbor in the actual title of the web site. So this might help us narrow something in that is much more specific. But lets say we want to have the opposite. Lets say we don't want our search term in the title. Let's say we are doing a search for HTML. Now HTML we know is common term that is in the end of a string of a website we can have www.mysite.com/HTML. So HTML can be in any title on any web site so if we are looking in specifically to find out how to learn about HTML or more information about HTML we would not want the sites that have not mentioned in the title because we would come up with a lot of garbage, any site that has a long stream of HTML attached to the end. So what we are going to do here instead, we are going to put in text with a colon and that is going to let us search for only our search criteria in the text of the web site and not mention in the title. So now when we put in the search term HTML we are going to come up with much more relevant searches. We have HTML tutorials and we have the definition and what HTML is. So we see here HTML goodies we see here that we came up with some very specific searches as we just put in like if we put in title HTML we come up with a range of web site that has nothing to do which we can find out information on HTML. So those are two ways that we can narrow it down our search in title or in text. "