Thursday, April 24, 2008

Search tip #3 - Searching Within Results

Ever created a search query that seemed pretty specific to you ( remember tip #1) and then all of a sudden you find 60 000 results on the first page really don't give you anything you feel like clicking on? Well I've been there too. It seemed a bit frustrating until I learnt to frame my queries properly.

But truth be told there's always a possibility that this may occur , no matter how well your queries are formed. The "Search within results" link seems to have been designed for exactly this. Its usually somewhere at the bottom of the search results page, just under the search textbox.

Simply fill in the keywords into the textbox and instead of clicking on the usual search button, click on the "search within results" link.

This then runs a search through your results , using the new key words as reference. Usually this should throw up some relevant results.

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