Collecting and Organizing Your Searches

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We do A LOT of searches, and many are for something the same or very similar. Thus, it would be a waste of our time to repeat the same search over and over by typing the same terms into Google or going to the same site and inputting the same criteria. We need to keep and organize our searches.

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Save Searches:


There are two main ways to save searches -

  • Bookmarks - Once you've completed a search and your page has some pretty satisfactory results, you can bookmark the page in the browser. Just be sure the entire URL with parameters from the search is saved as a part of the bookmark.

  • Shortcuts - If you click in the area to the left of the URL ("Secure/Not Secure") and drag it to your desktop, it will create a desktop shortcut to your search. You then have a shortcut ready to go anytime you need to search for that again, just at the click of a button.

Categorize Searches:


Since you're going to perform A LOT of searches, you will need to organize them as well -

  • Names - You should absolutely update the shortcut or bookmark name with whatever category you choose so that wherever your bookmark or shortcut resides, it's very apparent just from its name what it's for and what it does.

  • Folders - Make it easy on yourself and don't just update the names of your saved searches, but arrange them in folders that make it very easy to find whichever saved search you need when you need it. For Los Angeles, you might start with a folder for each region - Westside, Hollywood, Mid-City, etc. You might then use sub-folders to further divide them into individual cities or neighborhoods, then further by type of search - condo, apartment, house. Then maybe by price, number of bedrooms, or something else. You really can't be too organized with how you keep your searches