Google Advanced Search

Getting the

Results You Want

Search Skills are Powerful

Find friends & stalk enemies

Be the life of the party

Be the envy of the office

Find great fashion tips

Learn the TRUTH about

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1. Open WWW.Google.COM

2. Open Word to save

searches

3. Think of projects &

interests

john deere 1020 with loader $7500..$10000 715

john deere 1020 with loader $7500..$10000 715

wind turbine technician dacum filetype:pdf

sphynx cats for sale 54701

PAGERANK = VALUE

IF A is “IMPORTANT” votes for B raise B’s importance

Google analyzes the page that casts the vote

page A LINKS to page B MEANS A VOTES FOR B

Democratic ranking using link structure

PAGERANK + text matching = search ORDER

We all know basically how to use Google. But how many set up Preferences?

Now let’s look at the Advanced Search page.

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Let’s refine the search for PowerPoint presentations in the Education domain.

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Note the query syntax that results.

Once you learn this syntax the previous page is not needed.

Let’s limit the results to more recent in the US.

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Now, let’s explore the other Search View Options.

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Dynamically switch to other products

Search ModifiersCommon Operators

Use punctuation instead of words

DO not require a colon

<term1> AND

<term2>

<term1> OR

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Finds Exact Phrase

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Ignores search word

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Includes search word

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Finds related words

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<term1> *<term2>

Fill in the Blank word

ExamplesExamples Finds Pages Containing

Sailboat green bay The words sailboat and Green Bay

Sailboat OR motorboat Either the work sailboat or motorboat

“to each his own” The exact phrase to each his own

Paris –hilton The word paris but NOT the word hilton

Star Wars Episode +III The movie title including the roman numeral III

~boat loan Loan info for the word boat and synonyms: canoe, yacht, etc

Top * songs The words top and songs separated by exactly one word

use punctuation instead of

words, BUT DO require a

colon

Search ModifiersAdvanced Operators

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rsInfo:<website> information Google has about page

Cache:<website> version Google has in its cache

Linked:<website> Pages that have links to the site

SITE:<website> pages from the specified site

Similar:<website> pages that are related to a page

Site: restricts results to specific website or those websites in the given domain.

Filetype: searches for files with a specific file extension

Numrange or [#]..[#]: searches within a range of numbers

Stocks:

Phonebook:

Map:

Author: searches groups for posting by submitterAd

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MANY More……

SearchRestrictors Advanced Operators

Safesearch: sex education restrictor that restricts search results to child safe pages but allows educational content

SET in SEARCH SETTINGS aka Preferences

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rsInurl: or Allinurl:

The terms must appear in the URL of the page

Intitle: or Allintitle:

The terms must appear in the title of the page

Intext: or Allintext:

The terms must appear in the text of the page

Inanchor:

Must be in anchor text of links to the page.

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