Google Search Phrases to Save Time and Effort

Today one of my favorite design geeks Alex; posted he was scouring the Internet to find some work.  Not unusual for a free lance designer to be spending his morning engaged in such activity…but he needs to use his precious time giving love to his craft of design not looking for work.  Need a good designer check him out here ==>GenerationXAlbums

I suggested he use the follow search phrases to get his lead hunting done more efficiently.

I use site: URL “search term” to search a site without having to browse the whole thing.  I quickly found numerous leads without having to hunt through a job site.

ex: site:http://akroncanton.craigslist.org/ “web design” got me 103 returns from google for web design in Akron/Canton.

site:http://akroncanton.craigslist.org/ “graphic designer” Got me 21 returns.

Save time and maximize your efforts to getting the job, not looking for it.

I included the chart for your reference and good luck!

Google Shortcut	Finds Pages That Have…
minolta camera	the words minolta and camera
ski OR skate	either the word ski or the word skate
“gimme five”	the exact phrase gimme five
cotton -picking	the word cotton but NOT the word picking
Die Hard +2	movie title including the number 2
~bus	looks up the word bus and synonyms
define:exile	definitions of the word exile
bring my * here	the words bring my here separated by one or more words
+	addition; 978+456
-	subtraction; 978-456
*	multiplication; 978*456
/	division; 978/456
% of	percentage; 50% of 100
^	raise to a power; 4^18 (4 to the eighteenth power)
old in new (conversion)	45 celsius in Fahrenheit
site:(search only one website)	site:tusco.display “custom point of purchase”
link:(find linked pages)	link:technologyworkgroup.com
#…#(search within a number range)	minolta camera $200…$300
daterange:(search within specific date range)	egypt daterange:200508-200510
safesearch: (exclude adult content)	safesearch:breast cancer
info: (find info about a page)	info:www.genxalbums.com
related: (related pages)	related:www.genxalbums.com
cache: (view cached page)	cache:google.com
filetype:(restrict search to specific filetype)	web design filetype:ppt
allintitle: (search for keywords in page title)	allintitle:”adidas” running
inurl:(restrict search to page URLs)	inurl:southpark
site:.edu (specific domain search)	site:.edu, site:.gov, site:.org, etc.
site:country code (restrict search to country)	site:.br “honduras”
intext:(search for keyword in body text)	intext:shower
allintext: (return pages with all words specified in body text)	allintext:tropical island
book(search book text)	book Love is the Killer App
phonebook:(find a phone number)	phonebook:Microsoft WA
bphonebook: (find business phone numbers)	bphonebook:Intel OR
rphonebook:(find residential phone numbers)	rphonebook:John Smith Dover OH
movie:(search for showtimes)	movie:The Shining 44622
stocks:(get a stock quote)	stocks:goog
weather:(get local weather)	weather:44622

Hope you can put this to good use.

-Michael

Use the Internet to Find a Job – A Free eBook for Job Seekers

So this morning I was talking with the youngest of my offspring while making coffee and oats for breakfast.  She will soon be 12 and yet she at times posses the Wisdom of Solomon.  She has an affinity for food, all things about it, the smell, the color, and the feel. I asked her this morning, “What is it about cooking that you love so much?”  She tells me, “I like seeing my hard work come together, a sense of accomplishment that I created something.” Not eating it I thought to myself?  She went on to say, “I have a passion for it.”

I asked her what it meant to have passion for something.  She crossed the kitchen to stand close to me like she does when she want to make a point to her hard of hearing dad.  “I love the way people react to what I make.  Most people look in a magazine and say, “I would like to eat that.”  Me, I say, “I want to make that.”  That is what passion for food is to me.  I enjoy that moment when people put the food I made in their mouths and say, “OH MY GOODNESS!”

So I then asked her, “Where does it come from, this passion?”  She looks at me and smiles, “You and mommy.  Your love of food and skill in the kitchen makes me want to do the same.  My friends get jealous when I tell them my mom makes homemade French onion soup or my dad can make me crepes.  They tell me there dads can only make macaroni and cheese and hot dogs, maybe grilled cheese.”  I tell her for me the best part of cooking a meal is that moment of real quiet after the food is plated and the guests start to eat.  She adds, and all of the happy noises and things the people say.

I tell you this because everyone has a passion for something.  Mine is cooking, but even still it is to share my knowledge of all things technology related.  I have spent many years in the information technology field and love it all; computers, the Internet, networking, website building, and hobby programming.  The thing that really gets my juices flowing though is teaching and helping others use technology.   I was a chef, maître‘d, bar manager, dish washer, restaurant manager, waiter, and even a bus boy.  The thing I loved the most was sharing the things I know.  I am a bit of a ham, and am very comfortable in front of people.  I have made money at many jobs and have done quite a few, but I never really found myself as happy as I do when I am teaching.

Technology Workgroup, my business that I co-own with my wife has spent the last few years building websites.  We have now found ourselves teaching social media for marketing.  This got me to thinking about my passion to teach and peoples need to learn.  I want to send out to anyone who signs up for it an eBook on “Using the Internet to Find Employment”.  I am going to give it away; I don’t want anything from you.  I want to teach you what I know and share the things I have found, and let you pursue your passion.  In this time of economic challenges people are reinventing themselves and I want to give you more tools to go after what you want. Follow this link: free job eBook leave me your name and email address, confirm your information, and I will send you a link to the book.  That’s it.  From time to time I may send out some other tips and tools, but hey everyone likes free stuff and I promise no spam, HATE the stuff myself.

If you need someone to come to your location and teach about social media, how to use the internet to market your business or organization, or maybe you need a website makeover or a whole new online persona please contact us.  We build content managed solutions that you own and control.  Technology Workgroup believes that you should own your website, you should not be held up waiting for a designer or your internet service provider to make changes and updates to your site.