This document provides tips and tricks for improving web searches on Google. It outlines different filters that can be applied to searches, such as filtering by images, news, shopping or video. It also describes search operators that can be used, such as using quotation marks to search for an exact phrase or using a hyphen to exclude certain sites from results. Additional resources for learning more advanced search techniques are listed at the end.

1. Better Web Searching
Sonja Fuchs, Web Technology Specialist

2. Web Search (no filter)

3. Web Search > Filter

4. Filter by Images

5. Filter by Usage Rights

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

7. Filter by Usage Rights

8. Compare by Usage Rights

9. Reverse Image Search

10. Other Image Resources
Ag Comm Pictures Page

11. Filter by News

12. Filter by Shopping

13. Filter by Video

14. Filter by App

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

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

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

18. Hacks

19. 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

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