You are chatting with a friend who needs help in framing a Google search query that returns more relevant web pages in the search results.
You could go to Google, type the appropriate search keywords and then send him the corresponding Google search URL. You may also want to use TinyURL because long Googlesearch URLs can break when shared via email or through IM messages.
If this is something you do frequently, try Gog.is – it’s a URL shortening service but limited to Google search queries. Just add the keyword after the gog.is domain and that URL will automatically redirect you to the corresponding Google Search Page.
For instance, the short URL http://gog.is/india redirects to the longer Google query string http://www.google.com/search?q=india. For compound search queries, you can use either a comma (,) or a plus sign (+) to separate the keywords – so both gog.is/digital,inspiration and gog.is/digital+inspiration would point to the same search page on Google.
For Twitter, gog.is may be a better alternative to tinyurl for sharing Google URLs as what’s on the target page becomes obvious from the URL itself so no embarrassing situations.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/search/tinyurl-for-google-search-query/6446/
Reader Comments
Twitter clients like Tweetdeck or Twhirl should include this service.
Written by Phao Loo on 01.10.09
Have you any idea for yahoo or other search engines’ short url
Nice information !
Good Morning
Written by Vinod Kumar on 01.10.09
This reminds of this funny website for people who is so lazy to Google their queries.
An Example on the query ‘Labnol’: link
Written by Madhan on 01.11.09
sounds interesting. but still gets long when u are using a longer keyword..
Written by Interesting Blog on 01.12.09
Nice, one thing, this url is taking to google.com, but there is lot of regional google domains!!!
Written by Ramki on 01.12.09