Why use Google for research?
When you’re writing a blog, article or even website copy for someone (or yourself), using Google to confirm everything you are writing about is true and accurate, is imperative. Google is easy to use and helps you to find information about everything, and anything.
For example if you’re looking for something specific, Google Scholar will help you to find e-journals, materials from institutional repositories and book chapters from various sources. While Google books provides easy access to millions of scanned books.
Aside from these, using Google is time and cost effective, particularly if you know what you’re doing when it comes to keyword searches. Type in the right words and you are guaranteed to find the right information.
Here are 3 simple tips to follow for effective searching:
1. Use quotation marks: By using quotations around your keywords, you turn those words into a phrase, so Google only searches based on that phrase, not separate words. Eg. “property market Brisbane” will only bring up articles that have those words together in a sentence.
2. Use a hyphen if you want to take words out of the search. So if you’re searching property market but don’t want Brisbane results, type property market –Brisbane
3. Use OR to search for multiple phrases at one time. This is particularly useful if you want to search a variety of articles on the same topic, that might be listed under different wording. For example, type in “property market Brisbane” OR “houses Brisbane” and you’ll get double the results compared to if you only typed one of these.
Contact Angel Blue for copywriting, editing, proofreading and Social Media Marketing!
Email: [email protected]
For example if you’re looking for something specific, Google Scholar will help you to find e-journals, materials from institutional repositories and book chapters from various sources. While Google books provides easy access to millions of scanned books.
Aside from these, using Google is time and cost effective, particularly if you know what you’re doing when it comes to keyword searches. Type in the right words and you are guaranteed to find the right information.
Here are 3 simple tips to follow for effective searching:
1. Use quotation marks: By using quotations around your keywords, you turn those words into a phrase, so Google only searches based on that phrase, not separate words. Eg. “property market Brisbane” will only bring up articles that have those words together in a sentence.
2. Use a hyphen if you want to take words out of the search. So if you’re searching property market but don’t want Brisbane results, type property market –Brisbane
3. Use OR to search for multiple phrases at one time. This is particularly useful if you want to search a variety of articles on the same topic, that might be listed under different wording. For example, type in “property market Brisbane” OR “houses Brisbane” and you’ll get double the results compared to if you only typed one of these.
Contact Angel Blue for copywriting, editing, proofreading and Social Media Marketing!
Email: [email protected]
