Opinions sought please

[anamarja]

Terry, to force Google to look only for the terms you want, you put the phrase within inverted commas: eg "Terrys Family". I'm afraid that searching "William Middleton Butters" comes up with no results.
Margaret

[malcolm99]

That’s a “top tip” from anamarja Terry and another one is that if you don’t want a word to appear in the search results then type in the words you want to search for and then type in the word (or words) you don’t want, but with a minus sign in front of it/them.

So if you search for...

William Middleton Butters -Kate

...you’ll find that most references to the Duchess disappear.

If you want to get rid of references to Pippa as well (tho’ I don’t see why you'd want to!) just search for

William Middleton Butters -Kate -Pippa

...but as anamarja said, the “inverted commas” search is one of the most useful tricks there is when searching Google.

[anamarja]

To add to my previous tip, as well as excluding some information by using a minus sign, you can also force the inclusion of two (or more) different phrases by using the inverted commas around each particular phrase, with a plus sign between. Happy hunting.

[terrysfamily]

Thank you both very much for these great tips. They certainly sort the chaf from the wheat,

Thank you again

Terry

[Keith Goodway]

Can I ask a related question about Google ?

I live in the town of Stone in Staffordshire. As you can imagine, it would be very useful if I could make Google only bring up sites with Stone but not stone in them. I.e. only with caps, not with lower case. I have to sort through a lot of chaff to get to the wheat.

[anamarja]

Try using the search "Stone Staffordshire" - you get a lot of useful hits that way.

[malcolm99]

Even just putting in...

Stone Staffordshire

...without the quotation marks seems to bring up focussed results