How to Get the Most Out of

 Google

Select search terms carefully

“Cocaine”

  • Narcotics
  • Substance Abuse

How to exclude unwanted results

Bass

  • Bass –fish
  • Bass –guitar

 

Similar words

~ cell phone

Definitions

Define: ubiquitous

Exact phrase search

“girls who were frequent readers of magazine articles about dieting and weight loss”

Site specific

Chickadees site:.edu

Substance abuse:.gov

Math answers

  • 1+1
  • 30% of 90

Asterisk – Finds easy fact answers

  • Telephone invented by *
  • Vitamin * is good for *
  • Governor of New Jersey *

Stop words –

 Not recognized by Google

as, at, be, by, I, a, about, an, are, for,

from, how, in, is, it, of, on, or, that,

the, this, to, was, what, when, where,

who, will, with, www

Google Advanced Search –

Limit results to pages ….

  • that contain ALL your search terms
  • that contain an exact phrase
  • that do NOT contain certain words
  • created in a certain file format
  •  that have been updated within a certain period of time
  • within a certain domain, or website

 

Google Web Search Features

www.google.com/help/features.html

More Google Products

http://www.google.com/options/

Hidden Web!! “Those Dark Hiding Places:  The Invisible Web Revealed”

http://www.robertlackie.com/invisible/index.html

 

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