Saturday, April 9, 2011

Usage of Wild Card Search with Google Services

To get a load of information, one needs to search for Google. And with wildcard operators the usage of Google  services become all the more interesting & useful.

Below is a list of Google services with which you can play in using operators:

[ 1 ]  General Google Search Wild Card: 
With a wildcard operator a lot of flexibility is being allowed. By using * as a operator is used as  any word between phrases.  This is a technique which can be used for content inspiration as well as for those into the usage of keyword research .professional seo firm


Some other unexpected results when using wildcard operator can include:
[ 1 ]   Intext:”diabetic *diets”
[ 2 ]   Intitle:”diabetic * diets”
[ 3 ]   “diabetic* diets”-foods

[ 2 ]  Google Search Services With WildCard:
Many users use wildcard operator for various other services of Google like Google Images, Google video, You Tube, News, Shopping etc.

Some examples of how search operator can turn useful includes:

[ 1 ]    Find video content inspiration:”blogging * wordpress”
[ 2 ] Helps to customize Google News RSS Feed   which helps to brand mentions for new opportunities example: “guest * post”
[ 3 ]    Expand your search for various possible variations for example, to track new articles one can use this query: inpostauthor:”guest*author” OR  inpostauthor:”guestauthor”

[ 4 ] Google Reader + Wild Card:
If you are an active Google Reader user, you must be having plenty of relevant feeds, which taking of full functionality.
This wildcard search query works in a way that by replacing * with one word.  When you want two words within phrase use 2 asterisks

[ 5 ] Gmail Search + Wild Card:
How * is replaced by one or more words have been explained here in Gmail. Gmail uses a feature giving you a collection of resources & links which helps you read what you want.  A wildcard operator can be very effective in Gmail for searching attachments like filename: google*.doc.   This one filters email  to only those who have doc files attached  & this files have [google] in beginning which searches for messages that have attached documents  with google mentioned somewhere.professional seo company




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