PowersearchingwithGoogle-OklahomaStateUniversity.pptVIP

Power searching with Google How to find almost anything on the Web Search Term Modifers + strengthens the requirement that the word appear in the search results - removes all instances of the word from the search results “” allows specifying multi-term strings OR allows finding pages which contain one of two words ~ allows searching for a term and its synonyms Google-specific options Advanced search – has all of the shortcuts that we’ll be covering today. Image search – allows a very specific type of search. Returns thumbnails so that you can see what you’re getting. Google Switches site: limits search to one site. Can be used if a site doesn’t have a built-in search engine. example: +“Sorghum rust” site: will return all pages containing “Sorghum rust” from Google Switches Link:URL searches for pages that link to the specified URL. example: link: returns all pages that link to Google Switches filetype: limits search to one type of file - .doc, .pdf, .jpg and so on. example: +“Sorghum rust” filetype:pdf will return all pages containing “Sorghum rust” that are PDF files. Google Switches inurl: limits results to pages that contain the string in their URLs (or website addresses). example: inurl:“Sorghum” will return all pages containing “Sorghum” in the URL; for example, /wiki/sorghum.html Google Switches intitle: limits results to pages that contain the string in the page title. example: intitle:“Sorghum” will return all pages containing “Sorghum” in the title, but not those that only have sorghum in the text or URL. Google Switches intext: limits results to pages that contain the string in the page itself. example: intext:“Sorghum” will return all pages containing “Sorghum” in the text, but not those that only have sorghum in the title or URL. Google Switches inanchor: limits results to pages that contain the string in links on the page. example: inanchor:“boer goats” will return all pages that have links containing the phrase “boer goats” Google Switches If you ar