Searching within Google+
Search is pretty central to a lot of what Google does, so it’s no surprise to learn that there are a couple of neat tricks that combine Google’s search technology with Google+.
You can search the Google+ website in Google Search by entering your search term and then site:plus.google.com. This limits the search to just the Google+ website. The site: term can also be used to search any single website.
If you want to frequently search in Google+, you can set up Google Chrome (but no other web browser) with custom search terms. Two good ones to use are posts and profiles, which search through Google+ posts and profiles accordingly. Follow these steps to set up these custom Google+ searches in Google Chrome:
1. In Google ...
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