Gee, thanks Hip. You've got some pretty impressive search skills there!
When I just now entered 'phoenix rising + lactoferrin', I got 5 hits. Following your link above, you seem to have entered inurl
hoenixrising.me lactoferrin and got so many more!
Care to share any tips?
Hi Shannah. Sure. Here are a few useful Google search tips that I use all the time.
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Using the inurl: command. If you use the special Google command
inurl: then the word that immediately follows this command is searched for within the
web address of the site (the
http://blah.blah.blah.com bit), rather than within the web page. So your search will pick up only sites having an address containing that word.
As there are only two sites on the Internet that have the text
phoenixrising.me in their address (namely phoenixrising.me, and forums.phoenixrising.me), your search will be focused on just these two websites.
That is to say, beginning a Google search with:
will search only Phoenix Rising websites. (Note that there must be no spaces before or after the colon when you use
inurl:).
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Using the site: command. You can also use the special Google command
site: to restrict your search to a specified website. (This
site: command works in a similar way to the
inurl: command). For example, if you want to search say the
www.prohealth.com website from some information, you just begin your Google search with
and then add you search words of interest (and remember, put no spaces between the colon and the website name).
So if you want to search for say
brain fog on
www.prohealth.com, your search would be like
THIS.
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Ready-made searches. To make things even easier, you can use a ready-made Google search focused on the Phoenix Rising websites. Then all you have to do is type in your search words of interest.
So if you click here:
this will open a ready-made Google search pointing at Phoenix Rising. Just type in your search words of interest, and press enter.
And similarly, if you want a ready-made Google search for the PubMed website of medical articles, then here is one:
PUBMED SEARCH
You can add these ready-made searches as links in your browser's bookmarks, so that you have a fast and convenient way of searching Phoenix Rising or PubMed through Google.
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Using the OR command. Sometimes when you are searching for a specific item with Google, that item may have more than one name, or may have some closely related names. For example, if you are looking up info
Epstein Barr virus, you might also want to search under its abbreviated name
EBV.
Instead of doing two separate Google searches for both names, you can combine them into one search: this can be achieved using the Google
OR command placed in between the two search terms, like so:
Code:
"Epstein Barr virus" OR EBV
This Google
OR command (it must be in capitals) tells Google that either of the search words or phrases is acceptable. (Note: you have to put " " quotes around any phrases like "Epstein Barr virus", otherwise the OR command will not work properly).
So if you search the Internet for "Epstein Barr virus"
OR EBV, you get
THESE RESULTS. As you would expect, you get more results when looking for both terms simultaneously, compared to when searching for Epstein Barr virus on its own, like
THIS.
I hope this info is not too mind numbing, and that it might be useful.
I have started another thread on this same Google search subject
here.