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Using Google Efficiently

Mr. Harshal A Arolkar

Associate Professor

GLS Institute of Computer Technology

http://www.glsict.org


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Do not just enter what you're looking for in

the search box and hope for the best


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Help Google better understand

what you're looking for.

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Basics of Google searching

Wildcards

Conference on Effective Teaching

Phrase searches "Conference on Effective Teaching

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Basics of Google searching

Syntax for special cases

Mixing syntax elements

Advanced search techniques Specialized vocabularies

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Phrase Search and Basic Booleans

Activa Honda Apex Honda

Activa OR Honda OR "Apex Honda

Activa (Honda OR Apex Honda) Activa (Honda | Apex Honda")

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Explicit Inclusion and synonyms

I," "a," "the," and "of, etc. are stop words

+the king

"the Jumping" Jitu, Anu Malik +the IndianIdol

the who (the exception!)

~network is synonym of .net, LAN, TV,Technology, Software, etc

~teacher is synonym of Education, school etc

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Number Range

mobile Rs 500..1000

Shoes size 9..11

slr digital camera 3..5 megapixel $800..1000 yards Mumbai ~apartment 100..

Yards Mumbai ~flat ..150

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Wild Cards and negation

Wild card replaces one word

The atomic * of India

Cricket * India - is used for exclusion

ICC awards -cricket

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Special Syntax using operator

intitle: restricts your search to the titles of

web pages

intitle:Indian Idol -inurl:youtube intitle:index.of "parent directory

intext: searches only body text (i.e., it ignores

link text, URLs, and titles).

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inurl

inurl Searches in the URL of the page, allinurl

used for every item typed being part of URL

inurl:admin backup inurl:passwd

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Special Syntax

intext:"yahoo.com" intext:html

inanchor: searches for text in a page's link

anchors. inanchor:GLS"

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Site

site: allows you to narrow your search by a

site or by a top-level domain.

Site:.gov Site:.gov

site:edu

site:nic.in

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Link, cache and filetype

link: returns a list of pages that link to the

specified URL.

link:www.oup.com lists all pages containinglink to Oxford University Press web site

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cache: finds a copy of the page that Google

indexed even if that page is no longer

available at its original URL or has since

changed its content completely:

Cache:www.glsict.org

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filetype: searches the suffixes or filename

extensions (total around 1000 such

extensions)

filetype:doc and view as html

Stocks:cs (a valid ticker symbol)

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related, info and phonebook

related: , as you might expect, finds pages that

are related to the specified page.

info: provides a page of links to moreinformation about a specified URL.

Phonebook: looks up phone numbers

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Related, info and phonebook

rphonebook for residential bphonebook for

business

define: gives you a page full of definitions of aword from around the Web:

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Exceptions

Search is rarely absolute.

Google Imitate how people think and to

approximate their behavior. Most rules have exceptions.

query [ for better or for worse ] will not be

interpreted by Google as an OR query Google will show calculator results for the

query [ 34 * 87 ]

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Exceptions

Synonyms might replace some words in your

original query. (Adding + before a word

disables synonyms.)

overhead view of the Bellagio pool will give

you nice overhead pictures from pages that do

not include the word 'overhead.

C++, C#, Nikon $400, quick_sort are examples

where punctuation is not ignored

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How not to mix

site:glsict.org -inurl:GLS

site:com site:edu

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Combining Queries

perl (site:edu | site:com)

intitle:search intitle:records site:in

intitle:neurosurgery inurl:help

education intitle:"encyclopedia of" -

site:amazon.com -inurl:book -inurl:products

inurl:glsict -site:glsict.org

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Combining Queries

"what's new" "what's cool" directory

education site:edu

inanchor:icici -inurl:icicibank -inurlicicidirect -site:edu

inanchor:icici -site:icicibank.com -site:com -

site:icicibank.co.in

intext:password intext:username|userid

filetype:log|txt

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URL

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Harsha

l%20Arolkar%22

http://www.google.com/search is the script ?variable1=value1&variable2=value2&variable

3=value3

http://www.google.com/search?q= AnuMalik

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Calculator and Conversions

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9*3

12 ounces in pounds 3 meters in yards

12 USD in Euros

137 kilometers in miles 88 miles in km

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Other

The Advanced Search Option

Preferences

directory.google.com http://www.langreiter.com/exec/yahoo-vs-

google.html,

The Twingine site (http://twingine.com) Dogpile (http://www.dogpile.com)

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Latest

Brand Refinement

Virtual Keyboard for 35 languages

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Updates on twitter

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