Advanced Google Search Tips

• filetype: (doc, pdf, ppt, xls, rtf)• * (asterisk)• ~ (tilde) • allintitle: • inurl:• allinurl:

Advanced Google Search Tips

• filetype: (doc, pdf, ppt, xls, rtf)

– Find a Powerpoint presentation about using DVDs in English language teaching.

Intitle:dvd English filetype:ppt or ~dvd English filetype:ppt

Advanced Google Search Tips

• Task for filefype:

– Find a lesson plan for multiple intelligences in Powerpoint format.

filetype:ppt “lesson plan” “multiple intelligences”

Advanced Google Search Tips

• * (asterisk)

– Find Mr Vladimir Putin’s middle name.

“Vladimir * Putin”

Advanced Google Search Tips

• Task for *

– Find what kind of food David Eastment likes most.

“David Eastment” likes *food

Advanced Google Search Tips

• ~ (tilde)

– There is a journal hosted by an American university about technology and how it can be used to learn language. Can you find it?

site:edu intitle:technology ~language ~journal

Advanced Google Search Tips

• Task for ~

– There is a journal hosted by an American university about technology and how it can be used to learn language. Can you find it?

site:edu intitle:technology ~language ~journal

Advanced Google Search Tips

• allintitle:

– Find documents that have both “google” and search in the title.

allintitle:google search

Advanced Google Search Tips

• Task for allintitle:

– I can find about 925 pages with “taiwan” and “history” in the title. How many would I get if I widen the search with ~ ?

intitle:Taiwan intitle:~history

Advanced Google Search Tips

• inurl:

– Find documents that mention the word ”google” in their url, and mention “search” anywhere in the document (url or no).

inurl:google search

Advanced Google Search Tips

• Task 1 for inurl:

– Search Lionel Ritchie’s song “Say you say me” in mp3.

inurl:mp3 “say you say me”

Advanced Google Search Tips

• Task 2 for inurl:

– Search the lyric of Lionel Ritchie’s song “Say you say me” .

inurl:lirics “say you say me”

Advanced Google Search Tips

• allinurl: =intitle:google intitle:search

– Search documents that have only “google” and “search” in the url.

allinurl:google search

Advanced Google Search Tips

• Task for allinurl:

– Search a dictionary that will offer the definition and origin of the Pandora’s Box.

allinurl:electronics pandora

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