Welcome to the Tech Digest guide to online search.

This guide will:

• focus on some Google standards (the basics);
• take a look at some of Google’s new search tools;
• cover some more advanced/niche uses for Google;
• offer some alternatives to Google search.

Google Basics

Though Google has an incredible array of advanced options (see next section), usually some very basic ideas will get you a long way.

Find all words

Type in two or more words to search for, separated by spaces, to find web pages with all of those words.

Example: apple microsoft finds any page referencing both “apple” and “microsoft”