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Weather or not

Don't be so Common

Search engines have a problem with common words. It's not that they're being stuck up or snotty. Some words are so common that they appear in literally millions of documents.

Take weather, for example. There are thousands of sites providing weather information, from local forecasts to elaborate manuscripts on meteorology.

Tighten your search by focusing on words which will help you narrow the scope of your search. Rather than merely searching for "weather," construct a question like "Vancouver Canada annual rainfall," or something equally specific.


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