I know this is a daft question about google

[ghostmous3]

Or any search engine really

I dont know what it is but when I try and google anything or ask a question it never seems to come up with anything related to what ive asked. Just comes up with websites and articles that really are vague.

I dont remember search engines being so vague before.

Like this

I'm listening to an audiobook by gilly cooper and I just wanted to know the answer to.a question I have about one of the well known characters but nope just comes up with some interviews with jilly cooper and no mention at all of this particular character.

I've noticed this a lot recently.

I know it sounds vague and I know you will be horrible and call me thick.

No, you are absolutely right googling things in many cases just brings up adverts. Searching for information online involves an understanding of how it works. It's part of my job and I can search for things I get asked regularly pretty well, it very rarely involves google.
Searching for characters in a book unless it's Harry Potter is particularly tricky, in fact, I might be tempted to ask on here, or even search on here.

Depending on if you are using a laptop/tablet/phone you can usually edit your search. You can also put quotation marks around the important words or phrases in your search or else google may discount them and just search on the words that give the most hits!

Are you actually typing a question into the searchbar, or just the keywords? The keywords will provide better results, cut out any extra as it'll throw Google off!

Google searches each word and doesn't care about the order, but you can put speechmarks around a phrase (2 or more words) to ensure that Google sees those words as a phrase and searches them as such, eg if i searched Riverford farm cook book, I'd probably get a jumble of all their cook books. Whereas " Riverford farm cook book " should bring up the one with that actual title.

Lastly, ignore the first couple of posts as they are ads and not matched to your search in the same way!

Ah. Thank you. I didnt know the trick about the speech marks. I shall try that

I tried both putting in key words and the whole question