This document provides tips for using Google search more effectively, including searching for exact phrases with quotation marks, excluding words with a hyphen, finding word definitions and doing unit conversions, searching within pages using Ctrl/Command-F, and getting time or address information by typing those items followed by the location. The tips are meant to help users be smarter with their Google searches.

1. Be Smart with
Google
Smart
Searching April 2013

2. Searches for that
exact phrase
Use “…”

3. No spaces between –
and key word
Use -word

4. Define: word Find definitions of
words

5. Write a Calculation

6. Education hits :edu Type in :edu after a
search word to find
sites with an
educational content

7. Ctrl F a keyword
Ctrl or Command F and all instances of
it will be highlighted
in the text.

8. Conversions

9. Type in an address

10. Type in time and then the
name of city or place
Time