Refine, Define

Now to improve the chances of getting the best possible results.

for starters "the smallest dinosaur" is a little broad and could be refined a bit more. It's fairly specific, but can be interpreted in a lot of different ways which can lead to varied results.

* To obtain the largest number of hits, adding some logic to the search term will help.

With that in mind, dividing the string with OR operands will yield the largest number of results.

ie. "the smallest dinosaur" becomes "smallest OR dinosaur" which in tern, yields 63,100,000 results in Google! Big difference from the original 188,000 results.

* To refine the search more, the AND operand will make the search a little more specific by only including results which contain all terms

ie. "smallest AND dinosaur" yields 315,000 which is less than "smallest dinosaur" which yields 409,000

* To refine the search even more and only include results from Universities, add "AND university"

ie. "smallest AND dinosaur AND university" which produces 168,000 results.


These results are best if using operands to refine, but I still think that the best method to refine and define is to ask a question.

"what is the smallest dinosaur"

138,000 results. smallest number so far. funny enough, the first result was the first from my original search, but the rest of the results are a lot more specific.