How do you do a good google search?

Like, if you wanted to google a person, how do you narrow your search? I'll type in the name and city/state and get a million sites with any 1 of the words I typed in it.

place quotations around the specific term you are searching for. For example, "John Doe" instead of John Doe. This will require the results to have both John and Doe next to eachother in the website/article etc.

use "" around it

add more to it like the job and use ""

If you want to know where a person is try zabasearch.com
If you want to know what their up to then do a random name search (with their name, of course on google)
Have a nice day.

Yup, putting "s around your keywords will make google search exactly for that word or phrase. Make sure you use the right number of spaces and spell whatever you're searching for correctly.

"(name) from (place)(state)"

"persons name" + "place name"

The + is important as you are telling the search engine to look for the EXACT word in the first part PLUS the EXACT word in the second part. This can be used when searching for anything.

This would be the phrase to enter into a search engine if I wanted to find all pages with john lennon and liverpool contained within - "john lennon" + "liverpool"

Hi Mell,
Try the various options available in the Advanced Search page: http://www.google.co.in/advanced_search?...

As others have suggested, the double quotes help a great deal in narrowing down the results.