There’s a number of tips you can manage to add to your searching routine to help pull back that finer tuned section of results you’ve been looking for all this time. PC Magazine has an article that lists a variety of tips on succeeding with your searches.

Your first thought may be using a variety of operators in your searches to include, exclude or search for an exact phrase on the web. The PC Magazine article spotlights some other actions you can take to automate searches or remember some specific searches you make regularly as well.

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How to Really Search for Results

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A friend was trying to clean up his old Apple Mac computer. His hard drive was getting low on space (he only had a 20GB drive) so he went through to see what was taking up so much space. He happened upon the “System” directory. He knew that he have never used that directory before and he had also never saved anything into it. After a quick Google search on what the “System” folder was he decided is what not useful. How he could have came to the conclusion that is wasn’t helpful is beyond me. Needless to say, a reformat was in order.

Now I am not a Mac guy at heart. I don’t have an iPhone and my iPod is probably 27 generations behind but I know enough about the system that the “System” directory is necessary. I mean, would you touch your “Windows” directory on a PC? If you would, listen up now — DON’T DO IT! Within the top 5 Google responses for this search were:

• System Folder – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• In Mac OS, what is the System Folder? – Knowledge Base
• Bombich.com: Recovering from a Blinking “?”
• Mac OS 9 – The Basics of the System Folder

All of these clearly explain what it is and what it does. They are written in fairly plain English so I expect most people should understand it. The next time you feel like cleaning house, check Google and listen to what it has to tell you. It’s most definitely smarter than your average IT guy.

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File names can mean something. That’s why I Google it.