Workshop on using Google's Advanced Search features to improve results. Works best when done as a workshop in a computer lab. Delivered several times to college faculty and staff with great results.

1. Google Advanced SearchGetting the ResultsYou Want

2. Search SkillsarePowerful Learn the TRUTH about UFOs Be the envyof the office Findfriends & stalk enemies Find greatfashion tips Be the life of the party

3. 1. Open WWW.Google.COM 2. Open Wordto savesearches 3. Think of projects& interests

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10. Google Trolls Internet searching for pages Finds pages based on links Finds hidden pages Caches pages

11. PAGERANK=VALUE Democratic rankingusing link structure page A LINKStopage B MEANS A VOTESFOR B Google analyzes the page that casts the vote IFAis “IMPORTANT” votes for B raise B’simportance

12. PAGERANK + text matching = search ORDER

13. We all know basically how to use Google. But how many set up Preferences?

14. Advanced Search Results Now let’s look at the Advanced Search page.

15. Let’s refine the search for PowerPoint presentations in the Education domain. Advanced Search Results

16. Note the query syntax that results. Once you learn this syntax the previous page is not needed. Advanced SearchResults

17. Advanced Search Results Let’s limit the results to more recent in the US.

18. Refining Search Results Now, let’s explore the other Search View Options.

19. SwitchingProducts Dynamically switch to other products

20. SearchModifiersCommonOperators Usepunctuationinsteadof words DO notrequire a colon

21. <term1> AND <term2> <term1> OR <term2> And/Or Operator

22. “<phrase> ” Quote Operator Finds Exact Phrase

23. -<term> Minus Operator Ignores search word

24. +<term> Plus Operator Includes search word

25. ~<term> Synonym operator Finds related words

26. <term1> *<term2> Wildcard Operator Fill in the Blank word

27. Examples

28. SearchModifiersAdvancedOperators usepunctuationinsteadof words, BUTDOrequirea colon

29. Info:<website> information Google has about page Cache:<website>versionGoogle has in its cache Linked:<website>Pages that have links to the site SITE:<website>pages from the specified site Similar:<website>pages that are related to a page Advanced Operators

30. Site: restricts results to specific website or those websites in the given domain. Map: Filetype: searches for files with a specific file extension Phonebook: Advanced Operators Numrange or [#]..[#]: searches within a range of numbers Stocks: MANY More…… Author: searches groups for posting by submitter

31. Search RestrictorsAdvanced Operators Safesearch: sex education restrictor that restricts search results to child safe pages but allows educational content SET in SEARCH SETTINGS aka Preferences

32. Inurl: orAllinurl: The terms must appear in the URLof the page Intitle: orAllintitle: The terms must appear in the titleof the page Search Restrictors Intext: or Allintext: The terms must appear in the textof the page Inanchor: Must be in anchor text of links to the page.

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