Search Tips

30 Search Tips on how to use internet search engines effectively. I consider myself relatively sophisticated about internet search, but there were quite a few tips I had never thought of. For example, "Google’s synonym feature ~search-term; e.g. ~sheep returns sites with terms livestock, lamb."

I tried a google search for "~pascal", and Delphi was the first hit. But a search for "pascal" didn't mention Delphi anywhere on the first page. Unfortunately there are apparently no synonyms for prolog. Perhaps "mercury" is too general to be used as a synonym.