Google Search Tips #1 - Explicit Searches
Jenny Marsden --September 29, 2018
Google Search Tips #1 - Explicit Searches
Searching in Google happens multiple times a day for most of us, however would you like to know how to refine your searches to include the most appropriate results? Stick with us for our series on Google Search Tips.
How To Search Using Explicit Search Terms
This is by far the easiest and best way to get the most relevant results if your search term consists of more than one word. By using the double quotes around your phrase, you can limit results to be these words in this exact order.
For Example:
Search Term - small business help
Result - Returned to me is a reasonably broad set of results showing everything from grants to fairwork to marketing.
Better Results:
Search Term - "small business help"
Result - you can see that I get a list of results that have the phrase "small business help" in their title, page or URL. While this is a reasonably generic search term (and that's why I've chosen it) you can see the immediate effect of using Google's explicit search.
My Results
The image on the left shows the text search without the quotes, and the image on the right shows it with the quotes.

