Get better results doing web searches by using Google's menus, search operators and advanced setting options.

1. Better Web Searching
Sonja Fuchs, Web Technology Specialist

2. Instead of using the following slides, focus on:
1. Doing searches on Images, Videos, etc. and further filtering by Use,
length, etc.
2. Show options in advanced search (cog)
3. Search operators like “prussic acid poisoning” or “how to wean a calf
– ehow”
4. Hacks: Sunrise 58103, timer, delta 529
Weather, etc.

3. Web Search (no filter)

4. Web Search > Filter

5. Filter by Images

6. Filter by Usage Rights

7. You Cannot Reuse Any Image
on Google Search
Image: By Amada44 (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

8. Filter by Usage Rights

9. Compare by Usage Rights

10. Reverse Image Search

11. Other Image Resources
Ag Comm Pictures Page

12. Filter by News

13. Filter by Shopping

14. Filter by Video

15. Filter by App

16. Search operator hacks
Photo: By MazeNL77 (FindIcons.com)
[CC-BY-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

17. Filter by site
Use -
calf weaning –
calvesarecute.com
will display results
from all sites
EXCEPT
calvesarecute.com

18. Search for Exact Phrase
Use “” around
your search term(s)

19. Hacks

20. More info.
If Google Was a Guy Parts 1 – 3 (YouTube)
Hacks for personal use from Buzzfeed (timer, nutrition info., etc.)
Top 10 search tricks from Lifehacker
Search Ninja infographic
Journal of Extension’s Google Search Mastery Basics

21. Questions? Need Help?
Web Technology Specialists
Sonja Fuchs (701) 231-6403
Bob Bertsch (701) 231-7381