Presentacion de Google

1. Power searching with Google
How to find almost anything on the
Web

2. Search Term Modifers
+ strengthens the requirement that the word
appear in the search results
- removes all instances of the word from the
search results
“” allows specifying multi-term strings
OR allows finding pages which contain one of
two words
~ allows searching for a term and its
synonyms

3. Google-specific options
Advanced search – has all of the
shortcuts that we’ll be covering today.
Image search – allows a very specific
type of search. Returns thumbnails so
that you can see what you’re getting.

4. Title URL
Text

5. Google Switches
site: limits search to one site. Can be
used if a site doesn’t have a built-in
search engine.
example:
+“Sorghum rust” site:okstate.edu
will return all pages containing “Sorghum
rust” from okstate.edu

6. Google Switches
Link:URL searches for pages that link to
the specified URL.
example:
link:countyext.okstate.edu returns all
pages that link to countyext.okstate.edu

7. Google Switches
filetype: limits search to one type of file
- .doc, .pdf, .jpg and so on.
example:
+“Sorghum rust” filetype:pdf
will return all pages containing “Sorghum
rust” that are PDF files.

8. Google Switches
inurl: limits results to pages that
contain the string in their URLs (or
website addresses).
example:
inurl:“Sorghum”
will return all pages containing “Sorghum”
in the URL; for example,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sorghum.html

9. Google Switches
intitle: limits results to pages that
contain the string in the page title.
example:
intitle:“Sorghum”
will return all pages containing “Sorghum”
in the title, but not those that only have
sorghum in the text or URL.

10. Google Switches
intext: limits results to pages that
contain the string in the page itself.
example:
intext:“Sorghum”
will return all pages containing “Sorghum”
in the text, but not those that only have
sorghum in the title or URL.

11. Google Switches
inanchor: limits results to pages that
contain the string in links on the page.
example:
inanchor:“boer goats”
will return all pages that have links
containing the phrase “boer goats”

12. Google Switches
If you are using multiple search terms,
you can prefix all of the “in-” switches
with “all”; for example, “allintext:rust
sorghum wheat” will return all pages with
those three terms appearing in the text
of the page.

13. Google Switches
All of these switches can be combined; it
is possible to build searches like this:
inurl:sorghum site:tamu.edu filetype:pdf
This returns all pages from tamu.edu that
both have sorghum in the URL and are
PDFs.

14. Google Switches
You can also build searches using the
minus sign with a switch; for example:
+sorghum site:tamu.edu –filetype:pdf
will return all pages containing “sorghum”
from tamu.edu that are not PDF files. Or,
you could exclude tamu.edu:
+sorghum –site:tamu.edu