Read on, then, to discover the secrets of Google searching—and become a Google power searcher.

1.Why Google Delivers More Targeted Results Than Other
Search Engines?

Like most of the major search engines, Google assembles the pages in its search index by using special “searchbot” or crawler software to scour the Web. Found pages are automatically added to Google’s ever-expanding database; when you perform a search, you’re actually searching this database of Web pages, not the Web itself.

The results of your Google searches are ranked according to Google’s trademarked PageRank technology. This technology measures how many other pages link to a particular page; the more links to a page, the higher that page ranks.

2.Resurrect Dead Pages

What do you do if you click to a Web page in the search results list, but that page no longer exists? (It happens; thousands of older Web pages go dead every day.) You may still be in luck, because Google saves a copy of each page that it indexes as it existed at the time it was indexed. So even if a page is dead and gone, you may still be able to view the cached (saved) version of that page on Google’s server.

To display a specific cached page, use the cache: operator, like this: cache:URL. For example, to display the cached version of Mashable home page, enter cache:www.mashable.com.

3.List Pages That Link to a Specific Page

Want to know which other Web pages are linked to a specific page? Because Google works by tracking page links, this is easy to find out. All you have to do is use the link: operator, like this: link:URL. For example, to see the thousands of pages that link to Microsoft’s Web site, enter link:www.microsoft.com.

4.List Similar Pages

Have you ever found a Web page you really like, and then wondered if there were any more like it on the Web? Wonder no more; you can use Google’s related: operator to display pages that are in some way similar to the specified page. For example, if you really like the news stories on the CNN Web site (www.cnn.com), you can find similar pages by entering related:www.cnn.com.

5.Find Out More about a Specific Page

Google collects a variety of information about the Web pages it indexes. In particular, Google can tell you which pages link to that page (see the link: operator, above), which pages are similar to that page (the related: operator), and which pages contain that page’s URL. To get links to all this information on a single page, use Google’s info: operator. For example, entering info:www.mashable.com. displays the information about Mashable.com

6.Narrow Your Search To A Specific Domain or Website

Maybe you want to search only those sites within a specific top-level Web domain, such as .com or .org or .edu—or, perhaps, within a specific country’s domain, such as .uk (United Kingdom) or .in (India). Google lets you do this by using the site: operator. Just enter the operator followed by the domain name, like this: site:.domain. For example, to search only those sites within the .edu domain, you’d enter site:.edu. To search only Indian sites, enter site:.in. Remember to put the “dot” before the domain. The site: operator can also be used to restrict your search to a specific Web site.

In this instance, you enter the entire top-level URL, like this: site:www .website.domain. For example, to search only within cnn.com, enter site:www.cnn.com. To search only within Microsoft’s Web site www.microsoft.com, enter site:www.microsoft.com. Your results will include only pages listed within the specified Web site.