babiegoose.com

I google the world.

I google everything - I'm not sure if you knew but you can google earth.

oh, you knew that?

did you know you can google mars and the moon?

I already mentioned google books...

and just so it's out there... because I'm not sure that it's common knowledge, nor am I aware of any formal documentation of it... but just so you know.

When searching in google - most people enter the text for which they are looking. For example:

lorie ryan

the above implies looking for documents (html pages are documents) that have lorie and ryan somewhere relatively close together.

exact phrase searching:

"lorie and ryan"

that will only return documents that have the phrase as you typed it exactly with no exclusions, so if you don't want a million pages returned and you know that those words will be right next to each other - use it.

the OR search - really it should be self-explanatory, but I will just say for who don't have time to think about it. it will return either search parameter, regardless if the other one is present or not.

ryan OR lorie

I only use that when in conjuction with exact phrases, because otherwise it would be pointless...

now, if you want to exclude certain words (like to get rid of unwanted and inappropriate sites you can do the following

ryan -evil

the first term is what you want, the one following the "-" is what you don't. simple.

also ther eis the site searech... you can choose to look is a specfic site:

"ryan and lorie" site:babiegoose.com

it will look form the search string in the indicated website... I use it a lot with imdb.com and wikipedia.org...

to get tricky you can look for links to web pages... say you want to find sites that link you... do this:

link:www.babiegoose.com 

if you want to see the lasted cached version of the site (so if you go offline, this is what you would probably be able to pull up)

cache:www.babiegoose.com ryan

of course, I almost never use that, but you might... say if you lost all of your data from a page and you can pull a cached version to recover something - hopefully... of course if you cleared your cache, then there will probably not be anything there...

the following are like the exact phrase and exclusion, except they are for document types - some other document types php, html, htm... you get the idea

lorie filetype:doc OR filetype:pdf

lorie -filetype:doc 

lorie -filetype:pdf

and the following will give you some of the same info as what is above... just more concise and specific to whatever address you give it...

info:www.babiegoose.com 

I am not a representative nor do I endorse google... I am not getting paid, I just prefer this search engine over others... google. wikipedia. imdb. if I don't hit all of those at least once in the day, then I'm not at work. :-P

I also prefer SUV's to cars, snowboarding to skiing, in-line skating to skateboarding, paintball to basketball, pepsi to coke, ice cream to gelatto or yogurt or custard, fall to summer, full moon to any other phase...

and I prefer being happy.

it's all good...

uh, and if you don't know, now you know...