Like all internet search engines, Google indexes billions of web pages to make it easier for surfers to find the ones they want.

There are two reasons why Google is by far the most popular search engine: one is that it’s easy to use, and the other is that if it finds what you’re looking for, there’s a good chance it will appear in the first three pages of results. Most users never look beyond three pages anyway.

Google’s weakness is not that it doesn’t find enough answers, but that it finds too many. This Workshop shows how to bring the searched-for site onto Google’s first page of results, without going through the tedium of clicking through the Advanced Search form.

Just in case there is anybody reading this who has never used Google, the UK version of Google can be started by clicking here. Google UK is geared to British English and favours UK sites, but it also provides access to websites from anywhere in the world.

The most basic search (let’s say you’ve just spilled some red wine) involves typing a few key words, such as RED WINE STAIN REMOVAL, into Google’s search panel, and then clicking on the Google Search button.

See step-by-step instructions here