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This is an old one, but very important: Put quotes around phrases that must be searched together. If you put quotes around "electric curtains," Google won't waste your time finding one set of Web pages containing the word "electric" and another set containing the word "curtains." Similarly, put a hyphen right before any word you want screened out. If you're looking up dolphins, for example, you'll have to wade through a million Miami Dolphins pages unless you search for "dolphins - Miami ." Google is a global White Pages and Yellow Pages. Search for "phonebook:home depot norwalk , ct," Google instantly produces the address and phone number of the Norwalk Home Depot. This works with names ("phonebook: robert jones las vegas , NV") as well as businesses. Don't put any space after "phonebook." And in all of the following examples, don't type the quotes I'm showing ...

A new search engine, called ImHalal.com , aims to protect the sensibilities of Muslims by filtering out content that is "haram" or forbidden by the faith. The site will warn people if they are searching for a query that might return explicit content, site-founder Reza Sardeha said in an email on Friday. Besides developing the search technology, Sardeha and others in his team, based in the Netherlands, have also introduced a two layer filter. When users get a haram rating of level one or two out of three, they are advised to choose another keyword to search, but they can still continue their search if they believe the results fetched will be clean, Sardeha said. Words like porn and rape are considered to be at a rating of three, and are blocked, he added. Terms like beer and pork, however, get a haram rating of one because users cannot consume them off the Internet. The site was launched earlier this month, and has received more than 400,000 unique visitors so f...