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Using search engines to find information about finance

This article was written as a result of a research that helped me to discover that whilst the internet is second nature to most people there are still millions of people who are interested in finance and have not yet mastered the art of using the internet.

With the advent of the internet it is now easy to find any kind of information about finance instantly. A few years ago you needed to take the whole afternoon at the library searching through hundreds of books for help on this topic.

Now you can do it in less than five minutes. You can simply enter a search query and just like that you have a huge categorized and highly relevant list to choose from about finance or specific details of the topic.

With so much information presented by search engines the speed and efficiency of using the web can deteriorate if you don’t know how to use it the right way.

Why not take a few minutes to read through these few points I present below to help you with you your search. It is not my intention to waste your time with too much information especially because this is simply a helpful guide to help you find the exact information you are looking for. To some this may be just a refresher “course” but I still do encourage you to read on.

These tips work well in Google and to some extent on Yahoo.com.

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 finance, simply enter “finance courses”, if it’s careers simply type “finance 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, entering a terms such as “documentary about finance”+ “communications books” will show you pages that contain both those topic within the page.

You can enter the word “site:” at the start of your quiery text then follow with the specific domain name and then the keyword(s).Using this one will enable you to search through a site of your choice only.