The Wonders of the Internet

Search results are not the same in every search engine.  There are some less known search engines that provide very little results. With Google, Yahoo!, and other more popular ones, though, the differences are very minimal. Still, there is no denying the fact that so much results could appear.

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Word order in a search item does not matter. After all, the results don't necessarily show the order of the words. It would only provide the results that contain the words, but the order doesn't really matter.

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The Palace of the Light of Faith

The Palace of the Light of Faith is the English translation of the Arabic phrase, "Istana Nurul Iman Palace." This magnificent edifice contains 1,788 rooms all in all, including 257 bathrooms. With the exception of the latter, there are 1,531 rooms. If I were to sleep in each of the room per day, it would take me 4.19 years to be precise.

It was fairly easy to find the answer to that question. For the purposes of clarity, let me demonstrate it step by step.

1. First, I searched the number of rooms in The Palace of the Light of Faith. I found what I needed almost immediately, but I verified it in three different websites to be certain.
2. I then deducted the number of the bathrooms from all the rooms.
3. When I finally knew the exact number of the rooms that I needed (that is, with the exclusion of the bathrooms), I divided it by 365, which corresponds to one year. Then the quotient to that is the answer.

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In Google, what should you use to include synonyms of a certain word from your results (for example, "schools" in "top schools in the Philippines)?

Google is undoubtedly a very convenient search engine. And mastering the techniques and strategies in searching are very necessary skills that a person living in the digital age can be armed with. After all, with the seemingly unceasing strings of information being posted online every second, it is quite strenuous to seek exactly the things that you are in need of. Thousands, and even millions, of results could appear in your face. And instead of being of help, it could only frustrate you. After all, how in the world would you be able to dig through those mountains of information?

That's where some of the techniques would come in handy.

All right, let's take for example that you want to know the "top schools in the Philippines". The word "schools" is a bit vague, and it will most likely garner too much unnecessary results again. For effective searching, one has the option of changing the keywords or manipulating them, such as using the synonyms. In the example, here is what we could do put in the search bar: "top schools OR university OR college in philippines". Remember that when you are opting for the synonyms, put the word OR in between the words.

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The sun rise in Nice, France today took place at 40 minutes after seven A.M. this morning. With Google, acquiring an information such as this one is fairly easy. All I did was search "sunset in nice, france" and I immediately got the answer I needed.

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