Scribd
Upload
326 views

Searching With Google Quick Reference Guide

This document provides a quick reference guide for using advanced search operators and tools on Google to improve search efficiency. It lists over 10 search operators like filetype, site, intitle, inurl, and related that allow limiting searches to specific file types, sites, titles, URLs, or related terms. The guide also gives examples of using operators together like filetype:pdf OR doc to search for PDFs or documents on a topic.

Uploaded by

swiertz
Copyright
© Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
326 views

Searching With Google Quick Reference Guide

This document provides a quick reference guide for using advanced search operators and tools on Google to improve search efficiency. It lists over 10 search operators like filetype, site, intitle, inurl, and related that allow limiting searches to specific file types, sites, titles, URLs, or related terms. The guide also gives examples of using operators together like filetype:pdf OR doc to search for PDFs or documents on a topic.

Uploaded by

swiertz
Copyright
© Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 2

More Examples

cultural difference "business writing" filetype:pdf OR filetype:Doc


(Use OR if you want to search on 2 different filetypes )

Learn the Google interface


Filter your search results by using the more search tools option of Google ( left side). For e.g., those options enable you to view the latest results and not the most popular one.

cultural difference "business writing" filetype:pdf courses site:edu "business writing" ~guide -training -courses seminar site:edu filetype:pdf Your competitor name Confidential OR * internal use * filetype:PPT OR filetype:Pdf semantic ontology Phd "white paper" OR thesis filetype:pdf OR filetype:doc site:edu people site:findicons.com OR site:iconspedia.com (in Google Images)

Searching with

And try this one to search ebooks ...


-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:"index of" +"last modified" +"parent directory" +description +size +(doc|pdf) "ebooks"

Some tools to know


Calculate Convert Flight Schedule Define a word Time in a city Sunrise in a city Sunset in a city Weather (845.63564.12 *8)/2 25 USD in Euros flight lh492 Define: Time Tokyo Sunrise Tokyo Sunset Tokyo Weather Brussels

Quick reference guide

About the Author


Type Sebastien Wiertz in Google to find more about the author Author: Wiertz Sebastien ( BeXinFu.com )

Why this quick guide ?


Google is still the most popular search engine on the web today. The interface is so simplistic most of us use it easily but not ... efficiently. I have therefore created this quick reference guide in order to show you the true power of Google when you know how to really search. Print this quick reference guide recto-verso and fold it in 3 part (Trifold). Keep it at hand next to your computer.

AND

By default, Google searches all the terms with AND Shopping Brussels Email Overload

Filetype: or Ext:

Search for a specific file type

Brussels tourist ~guide filetype:pdf toto ext:pdf OR ext:doc OR ext:xls

Use to search on a quote or a sentence to be or not to be email overload OR information overload Use - if you need to remove a term " business writing" -training -courses ~car -peugeot -renault -citroen

Ask Google to fill the blanks by adding a wildcard in your search terms ( * replace multiple words) the skirt was invented by * " best * to do in Brussels" Specify that you want to include a term without its synonyms. Use also + to include a stop word in your search terms +the +melon * produced +by (remove the + to see the difference)

Things you should know


1. Repeat your search process. Refine your search by reusing terms from your first search results. Use synonyms to reformulate your search. Make a clear difference between subject headings and keywords search. Do not limit your search to Google ( Google indexes only 20% of the web). Broaden your horizon and visit also metasearch engines ( http://www.dmoz.org/ Computers/Internet/Searching/Metasearch/ ). Stop words : common words like to, and, how, by are not indexed by Google. It makes no sense to add them in the query. The order of the words in your query is important. The query is limited to 32 words (stop words not included) . Plurals of words are taken into account. Preview your results prior to open it in order to view where your search terms is located in the page. To preview your results in Google, click on the Search operators are case sensitive (OR and not or). Use google.com instead of your country specific Google.

..

.. Specifiy a range to limit your search. Can be a date or price .. Brussels event 2010..2011

inurl/allinurl

Search for the term in the URL . Use allinurl if you need to find more terms

2. 3.

OR

Use OR if you want to allow either one of several terms Shopping OR Museum Brussels Email overload OR information overload

taxonomy inurl:Thesis OR inurl:pdf allinurl:pdf edu taxonomy

Intext:

Search for a term in the main body text

Use ~ in front of search terms to include their synonyms in the query How to ~make a circle business writing ~samples

" sebastien wiertz" intext:" enterprise 2.0"

4.

Intitle

Search for the term inside the page title or document title.

intitle:Xin FU

5. 6. 7. 8.

Site:

Limit your search to specific sites

intitle:taxonomy inurl:Thesis OR inurl:pdf OR inurl:papers

cultural difference " business writing" site:edu ~make forms in Microsoft Word site:microsoft.com

InAnchor

Find links in the page containing the mentioned term

Related:

Search for related web site

inAnchor:Download

related:google.com

Info:

Display info on the specified site

9. 10.

info:www.microsoft.com

You might also like