This document provides tips for advanced searching on Google, including using operators like filetype, asterisk, tilde, allintitle, inurl, and allinurl to narrow searches. It gives examples of how to search for specific types of files, broaden or narrow searches, and search within titles or URLs. Tasks provide additional examples for practicing each operator to search for presentations on a topic, lesson plans, people's middle names, journal articles, song lyrics, and dictionary definitions.

1. Advanced Google Search Tips
• filetype:
(doc, pdf, ppt, xls, rtf)
• * (asterisk)
• ~ (tilde)
• allintitle:
• inurl:
• allinurl:

2. 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

3. Advanced Google Search Tips
• Task for filefype:
– Find a lesson plan for multiple intelligences in
Powerpoint format.
filetype:ppt “lesson plan” “multiple intelligences”

4. Advanced Google Search Tips
• * (asterisk)
– Find Mr Vladimir Putin’s middle name.
“Vladimir * Putin”

5. Advanced Google Search Tips
• Task for *
– Find what kind of food David Eastment likes
most.
“David Eastment” likes *food

6. 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

7. 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

8. Advanced Google Search Tips
• allintitle:
– Find documents that have both “google” and
search in the title.
allintitle:google search

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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”

12. 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”

13. Advanced Google Search Tips
• allinurl:
=intitle:google intitle:search
– Search documents that have only “google” and
“search” in the url.
allinurl:google search

14. 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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