Searching Google
Written and Produced by
Joan Lomas, Sandy Ferris
and Hannah Prince
Presented by
Gill Jones
August 2007

Advanced
Search
Basic Search
Box
Google is a
Search Engine

More about
advanced
search later.

Upper or lower case
Searches all
Put phrases in
the words you
inverted commas
put in the box
If you enter too
many words you
won’t get many
relevant results.

Useful if you want to
search for something
specific.
I wouldn’t use
the ‘I’m Feeling
Lucky’ button.
Prefix stop words
with + if you want to
include them in your ‘and’, ‘the’,
search ‘of’, ‘to’, ‘a’
are a few
examples of
stop words.

Back
Button
Sponsored links
are displayed on
the right of the
Summary
screen.
Heading… this is a
hyperlink that will take
you to the page when you
URL
click on it.
Visit the home page by
copying the first part of the This is an
URL (up to the first / ) into the example of the
way Google
browser’s address box.
Copy and paste displays the
results of your
www.dailymail.co.uk into
search.
here…

More help for
using
advanced
search.
There are additional
search boxes on the
Advanced Search
screen. The best way
to find out how they
work is to try them

Basic Shortcuts and Google
Features
Cancer OR Neoplasms
Try out a few
of these
site:dh.gov.uk shortcuts in
the basic
search.
define:oncology
… and there’s more at http://www.google.com/help/cheatsheet.html

To visit a .com site
quickly, type in the
name and use CTRL and
Enter on the keyboard.
Try it with Bupa and
see what happens.
Use CTRL F on the
keyboard to display
the Find box… for
quicker searching.
The Enter
key looks
like this.

And that’s all there is to it!
Practice these tips and your
searches will be quicker and
more relevant.
Listen again or print out
the script
Look at Google cheat sheet at
http://www.google.com/help/cheatsheet.htm
Until next
time… happy
searching!