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Google Tips, Tutorials, and Guides

There's a lot more to Google than most people might think. Find out how you can use Google for all sorts of search situations.

How to Find Sites That Link To Your Site

Sometimes it's fun (and educational) to see what other sites are linking to you on the Web.

How to Use the Inurl Syntax to Search Within a URL

The inurl search syntax allows you to search for words within the URL.

How to Find People Using Google

Finding someone is one of the most popular activities on the Web, and Google can be an amazing source of information. Learn how you can use Google to track down addresses, phone numbers, emails, maps, and much more.

How to Create a Google News Alert

Google has access to literally thousands of news sources, and I've found that when I'm needing more of a variety of sources on one subject, they manage to deliver.

Use Google to Do a Wildcard Search

Google has long supported a wildcard search function. Learn how you can use this simple search operator.

How to Find Sites that Link to Your Site

Sometimes it's fun (and educational) to see what other sites are linking to you on the Web.

How to Search a Specific Domain in Google

Did you know that you can use Google to search a specific domain?

How to Add Google Maps to Your Web Page

Have you seen a blog or a website that has a cool embedded Google map? And have you wondered how they did it? And, (this would be me), have you given up in despair because the instructions you found were just too hard?

URL Search with Google

Narrow your searches and find just what you're looking for with this basic tutorial on how to search within URLs, aka Web addresses.

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