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From: Cheryl Morris <>
Subject: [PARKS] Googling for Parks
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 19:07:53 -0700


Lots of fun -- RV parks, National Parks, etc.

But, some hints -- may be familiar to many of you. And, I usually just use
the basic Google front page. It is possible to use their advanced search as
well. I'm just lazy.

First, put quote marks around the name "Aaron Parks" and that will force
the search engine to group that name. Adding the town and or the state will
lower the hit count. For states like New York where there are two words, I
put them in quotes as well.

If you have a name where there are sports involved and you want to weed
those returns out, use something like -basketball [note that there is no
space]. If you want to be sure the engine uses your term then +pensioner

Google will let you put in a lot of words, but will only search on the
first 10.

If you believe that what you want might be in pdf format you can add that
to the search line, for example "Aaron Parks" -basketball +pensioner "New
York" pdf

Then, to pick up as many Aaron Parks as possible, run the search again and
change to Park, Parke, Parkes, Peirks, Parkhurst and any of the other local
variants.

Happy Googling!

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