There is a tremendous amount of work to be done on search products to improve people’s experience with the web: currently average information workers spend 25 percent of their time looking for information. Many ordinary folk are also having a tough time finding the information we need on the unwieldy Web and sometimes give up and try referencing a book. We know a few basic tricks like using quotes to search for an exact phrase or using the “-” to exclude the word from the search, but there are many more tricks available for narrowing a search. Have a look at 20 tips for more efficient google searches, you may want to commit a few useful ones to memory. I am trying to understand how Google determines similar terms to the user’s search keyword when the “~” symbol is used: I searched for [~dumb little man] and Google returns sites with funny and stupid in its results.
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