► When using site search don’t enter it the following way unless all you want are search results for subdirectories of the domain name.

site:www.google.com

► To get more than that like the subdomains and the subdirectories enter it this way.

site:google.com

► Google has many Advanced Search Operators to help you filter your searches to give you more relevant results with less effort and less time doing it.

► To see how some of these work Visit a great site called Soople http://www.soople.com/ They have hard coded some of the operators into Google’s Web Search form so you won’t have to type them in. They only used just a few here as examples. You’ll need to visit the other sites to see how all of them function.

► To get the most comprehensive list with explanations of these search operators go to Googleguide http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators.html Checkout the other wonderful pages while you are there.

► Here is a site that has tested all of the search operators in many different situations Google Hacking Database http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/ghdb/ You can find passwords using these operators.

► A really great book for this is called Google Hacks http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596004477/ There is also a second edition and a third edition

► I read these books absolutely free. I asked at my local library if they had them. They said no but found them in a library in a bigger city in our state. If they hadn’t had it the librarian told me she could have searched FirstSearch.org’s Worldcat where she could borrow them from libraries in another state or even all over the world. In most cases this costs nothing, But occsionally if a fee is charged it is less than the price of the book. I have never had to pay any fees. Only libraries can get an account at FirstSearch but my library gave me their username and password to use at home. I order the books at home and pick them up at the library and return after I have read them. If I wanted I could get a book about poetry from a Russian Library here in the United States. Not all libraries worldwide use FirstSearch but most do.

► The above method is good if you want to learn to hand code HTML pages in HTML. XHTML, and CSS. There are thousands of these books but only a few are worth your time. You could go broke trying to find a good one. ♥♥♥