| Google Home Page (web search) |
| Google Images |
| Google Groups (Newsgroups, etc.) |
| Google Preferences |
| Language Tools |
| Advanced Search |
Golden Rules of Google Search:
- Google queries are not caSe sEnSitiVe
- Google wildcard character is the "*" character, but it doesn't work the way you might think. It will not stem. Instead, it will substitute for a word.
- Google stems automatically. (e.g., enter "diet" and get "dietary" as well.
- Google has "stop words" which are normally ignored in queries. Some stop words are who, where, what, the , a, or am (but this can vary from search to search).
- There used to be a 10-word limit on searches. The limit is higher now, but if you encounter that limit, use the wildcard character to reduce the word count. Example)
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| Basic search: FBI hacker Mitnick |
| Phrase search: "The Cremation of Sam McGee" |
Boolean operators:
- The AND operator is redundant. Google AND's the words by default.
- Use the "+" character to ensure a word is included in the search. Example: +the cry +of distress +is +the summons +to relief
- The NOT operator works, but you invoke it differently. You preface the NOT'ed word with the "-" character, as on -pledge "and justice for all". Don't use the NOT word because you will look for "not" and the word you don't want, as in NOT pledge "and justice for all"
- The "OR" operator also works. You can use "OR" (uppercase) or the "|" character to invoke it.
- Note, there is no order of operation with Google (but the order of the words may affect the results of the query. Example
- Use of parenthasis is permitted (but the presence of paraenthasis does not affect the search).
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Toolbars:
- Google API Search Tool (Windows)
- Ultrabar (for Internet Explorer)
- Google's IE Toolbar
- Dave's Quick Search Taskbar (launch your browser with your search term)
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Advanced Search:
- intitle, allintitle (search for text strings in titles)
- inurl, allinurl (search for text strings in the URL)
- filetype (search for a specific file type)
- allintext (locate a string within the text of a page)
- site (narrow the search to a specific site)
- link (search for links to a page)
- inanchor (locate text within a link)
- daterange (search for pages within a certain date range, but difficult to use)
- cache (show the cached version of a page)
- numrange (search for a number)
- info (show Google's summary information)
- related (show related sites)
- phonebook (general phone book)
- rphonebook (residential phone book)
- bphonebook (business phone book)
- author (get newsgroup messages by author's name)
- group (goes deeper than group name)
- msgid (doesn't seem to work anymore)
- insubject (search groups by subject line)
- stocks (get information on stocks of companies)
- define (show the definition of a term)
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