google tips and tricks
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Tips and tricks to make searching with Google quicker and more effective.TRANSCRIPT
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Tips and tricks for using Google
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How does Google search?
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Google’s Aim
“The perfect search engine would understand exactly what you mean and give you back exactly what you want.”
Larry Page, Co-founder & CEO
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How does Google search?
200+ FACTORS
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Results
££
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Phrasing your search queries
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Tips for phrasing
1. Start simply
William Shakespeare
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Tips for phrasing
2. Add relevant words
William Shakespeare Life
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Tips for phrasing
3. Think within the field
The Bard of Avon
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Tips for phrasing
4. Only use important words*
Not ideal: When will the sun come up in London tomorrow?
Ideal: sunrise London
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Tips for phrasing
*Common words are ignored:
The
a
for
to
and
all
in
some it’s
that
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Tips for phrasing
…most of the time
whothe
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Google is intelligent
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Don’t worry about
1. Spelling – autocorrects
2. Punctuation – ignores @#%^*()=[]\
3. Capitalisation– the new internationalist = The New Internationalist
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When you search Google…
• suggests spelling corrections and alternative spellings
• personalizes your search by using information such as sites you’ve visited before
• includes synonyms of your search terms to find related results
• find results that match similar terms to those in your query
• searches for words with the same stem, like "running" when you search for [ run ]
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Verbatim Search
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Using special characters
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Quotation Marks
Search for an exact phrase in an exact order.e.g.
“to be or not to be”
Warning: you may exclude relevant results.e.g. a search for "Alexander Bell" will miss pages that refer to Alexander G. Bell.
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Minus Sign
Excludes words from your search e.g.
The Great Gatsby -film
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Tilde
Searches for synonymse.g.
~food factsincludes results for “nutrition facts”
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2 full stops
Searches for a specific number rangee.g.
prime ministers 1900 .. 2000
N.B. Make sure you put a space either side of the full stops.
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Phrasing your search queries
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Search within a site
site: allows you to get your search from a specific site or type of site (.gov, .edu).
e.g. unemployment site:gov
would only give you search results from .gov websites
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Search related
related: allows you to find pages that have similar content to a site
e.g. related:www.bbc.co.uk
would give you other news and media agencies
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Define
define: gives you a definition of a word
e.g. define: irony
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Filetypes
filetype: searches for specific filetypes
e.g. the war of the roses filetype:ppt
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Further information
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Links
Inside Search Helphttp://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&safe=vss&answer=134479
All Tips and Trickshttp://www.google.com/insidesearch/tipstricks/all.html