How to Use The Search Engines to Find photography content

This write-up was written as a result of a research that helped me to discover that whilst the web is second nature to most people there are still millions of people who are interested in photography and are new on the web.

The web has made it easy to find content about photography quickly. Just a few years back you needed to take the whole morning at the library skimming through hundreds of books.

Today you can simply take 5 minutes or less and find all the information you need about photography or specific topics of the same subject.

So many people end up spending hours clicking through each of the hundred or so pages displayed on search engines.

Below I present some of the most useful operators you can use in order to make your search effective. My aim is not to flood you with too much information that you can’t use but I simply want to provide exactly what you need without wasting your time. To some this may be just a refresher “course” but I still do encourage you to read on.

These tips can work in most search engines but I base most of them on Google.

To make sure your search returns only the pages with the EXACT information you are looking for simply put inverted commas. For instance to find a college course about photography, you should type “photography courses”, if it’s careers simply type “photography careers”. The retuned pages will be those that have the exact wording you entered in the search.

You can also improve your search by using the “+” operator. For example, typing in a word like “documentary about photography”+ “photography books” will produce results that have both terms appearing somewhere within the page. 

You can enter the word “site:” then follow with the domain name and lastly the keyword.This will produce results from only that site you specify.

Armed with this information there is no reason to spend hours searching for that information no matter how rare it is, whether it is about your internet in – photography or any kind of content you may be interested in like how to do a reverse search on a cell phone number.

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