ADVANCED SEARCH TECHNIQUES IN GOOGLE

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THE EASY WAY TO SEARCH GOOGLE IS TO ENTER YOUR SEARCH TERMS ON THE GOOGLE HOME PAGE.

ADVANCED TECHNIQUES ALLOW YOU TO FOCUS YOUR SEARCH AND FIND WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR.

THESE ARE THE TECHNIQUES WHICH WILL BE COVERED IN THIS PRESENTATION:

1. Use quotation marks: “ “2. Use a dash: - .3. Use a tilde: ~4. Use “site:”

5. Use two periods: ..6. Use an asterisk: *7. Use “related:”

1. QUOTATION MARKS

“I have not yet begun to fight”When you put a word or phrase in quotes, the results will only include pages with the same words in the same order as the ones inside the quotes.

All of your results will contain the phrase “I have not yet begun to fight.”

2. THE DASH

jaguar -carWhen you use a dash before a word or site, it excludes sites with that info from your results. This is useful for words with multiple meanings, like Jaguar the car brand and jaguar the animal.

CATS NOT CARSjaguar -car

3. THE TILDE ~

When you use a tilde ~ before a word, the results will include sites with that word and sites with synonyms for that word.

boating ~drunk

It has been said the word “drunk” has over 120 synonyms. When you search for “~drunk”, Google will search for all of the different ways to say “drunk.”

4. SITE:

When you use the search operator “site:” followed by address of a web site, the results will be limited to those pages found on that particular web site.

tennis site:espn.com

tennis site:espn.com

This search will list all of the pages on espn.com that contain the word tennis.

5. THE TWO PERIODS

When you separate numbers by two periods without spaces, you see results that contain numbers in a range.

tennis 1955..1960

camera $50..$100

A search for “tennis 1955..1960” would limit your results to that time period.

Pancho Gonzales Althea Gibson

A search for camera $50..$100 would give you results in that price range.

6. THE ASTERISK *

Add an asterisk as a placeholder for any unknown or wildcard terms.

“* pluribius unum”

A search in Google for “* pluribus unum” would give results with“e pluribus unum” the motto that appears on US coins, but it wouldalso return results for:“Me Pluribus Unum”“Ex Pluribus Unum”“Eggs Pluribus Unum”“Bee Pluribus Unum.

7. RELATED:

When you use the “related:” search operator, you can findsites that are similar to one that you already know.

related:cnn.com

related:webmd.com

If you find a useful website, you can use “related:” to help you find similar websites