Search Tips for Globe Collectors

Searching for globes on the Web can be a frustrating experience. Any globe collector who has tried to locate a rare globe on the Web has been forced to sift through thousands of irrelevant links. Often, the task is overwhelming, and the globe collector quits searching in frustration.

Searching for globes on the Web is complicated for a variety of reasons. First of all, there is the issue of synonyms for globe. Some companies that produce globe-related products use Earth or world to describe their products. Often, the word globe appears nowhere in their descriptions. Because of this, globe collectors must sometimes run searches for globe, Earth, and world to find the majority of relevant results.

To further complicate the lives of globe collectors, the word globe is commonly used by many different industries to describe a wide variety of products. For example, there are water globes, snow globes, gazing globes, lighting fixture globes, etc. If you are searching for regular globes, you probably would rather not have to sift through search results for these items to find the globe you really want.

There is also the problem of the seemingly ubiquitous semi-precious gemstone globes. Any time you type the word globe in a search engine, your results will be flooded with links to gem globes.

There is also the irritation of the globe collector’s worst online enemy: The Boston Globe. If you search for globe and almost any other word in the English language, you are bound to have your search results clogged with articles from The Boston Globe.

To ease your searches for globes, below are some helpful tips for getting more focused content in your search results.

The first thing you want to do is make sure that you will get most of the relevant search results for globe-related products. You can search for the words globe, Earth, and world simultaneously to find links to pages that mention any one of these three words. All you have to do is include "OR" between the words. You can copy and paste the following search phrase into your search engine’s search box.

globe OR earth OR world

Note that you will want to build on this search phrase by adding specific terms. For example, if you were looking for crystal globes, your search phrase would look like the following.

crystal globe OR earth OR world

Another thing you may want to do is weed out a lot of potentially irrelevant links. You can accomplish this by excluding certain key words from your search. You can exclude any word by putting a negative symbol before the word. For example, if you do not want to see links to snow globes in your search results, include “-snow” in your search phrase.

Below is a sample search phrase including several words that frequently clutter search results for globes. You can copy this phrase and paste it into your search engine’s search box. This search phrase can be edited to suit your specific needs.

-water -snow -boston -gem -lamp -light -gazing

Note that you will want to build on this search phrase by adding specific terms. For example, if you were looking for crystal globes, your search phrase would look like the following.

crystal globe -water -snow -boston -gem -lamp -light -gazing

If you are feeling really adventurous, you can use any combination of the search phrases shown in this article. For example, if you wanted to see all crystal globes, crystal Earths, and crystal worlds while excluding words that commonly clutter search results for globes, your search phrase would look something like the following.

crystal globe OR earth OR world -water -snow -boston -gem -lamp -light -gazing

These search phrase examples are here just to demonstrate how you can easily make your searches much less frustrating. These search tricks will not work 100% of the time, but they will do a lot to filter out a large portion of the typical search clutter. The best way to get familiar with these search methods is to use them on real searches. Experiment with different combinations, and see what you get.

For your convenience, there are Google search boxes near the top and bottom of the right-hand column of this page. Make sure to click the “Web” button to search Google across the Web. If you search with the “Globe World” button selected, your search will return results only on the Globe World site. Happy globe hunting!