I bet you’re a skilled online searcher... ....if you’re reading this, you might even be an expert at online search. But improving your search skills is one of those things that will pay dividends way beyond your expectations. That’s what this post is really all about—how to be much better at digging up the content you need to find fast, accurately, and with skill. There are the tips and tricks that you’d expect from a book like The Joy of Search—the tactics that great online

Suppose you want to search inside a video? Videos aren’t very skimmable--this means it can be easy to overlook video content altogether. When you search for things like how-to videos that have multiple steps, or long videos, Google Search will provide links to the key moments in the video, based on key points provided by content creators. That is, now you can scan to see whether a video has what you’re looking for, and find the relevant section of the content. For people who

As with most tips you find online, there are endless lists of "Top 10 Tips You Must Know..." about whatever-the-topic-is. I've written them myself (look elsewhere in this blog). But once you get beyond the 10th tip, I hope that you're looking for something more. For me, the 11th tip--the ones beyond the obvious top-10 list--are the more interesting. So what would be MY 11th tip? The next one? It would be something a bit more strategic. It would be something like this: 11.

So.. you think you know how to search?

1.  Do one more search.  We have found that people have a tendency to do one simple search to understand a complex topic, and often end up taking the result from the first way they thought about a question.  Successful searchers often do two or three searches on a topic to gain a number of perspectives.  (This is especially true for complex or contentious topics.) 2.  Consider using an alternate corpus for your search. It’s often useful to switch from Web search to Images or