This document provides tips for using advanced search operators in Google including: - filetype: to search for specific file types like documents, presentations, spreadsheets - asterisk and tilde to find variations on search terms - allintitle:, inurl:, and allinurl: to search for terms appearing in document titles, urls, or both respectively It also includes examples of searches using each operator type.

1. Advanced Google Search Tips
• filetype:
(doc, pdf, ppt, xls, rtf)
• * (asterisk)
• ~ (tilde)
• allintitle:
• inurl:
• allinurl:

2. Advanced Google Search Tips
• filetype:
(doc, pdf, ppt, xls, rtf)
– Find a Powerpoint presentation about using
DVDs in English language teaching.
Intitle:dvd English filetype:ppt
or ~dvd English filetype:ppt

3. Advanced Google Search Tips
• Task for filefype:
– Find a lesson plan for multiple intelligences in
Powerpoint format.
filetype:ppt “lesson plan” “multiple intelligences”

4. Advanced Google Search Tips
• * (asterisk)
– Find Mr Vladimir Putin’s middle name.
“Vladimir * Putin”

5. Advanced Google Search Tips
• Task for *
– Find what kind of food David Eastment likes
most.
“David Eastment” likes *food

6. Advanced Google Search Tips
• ~ (tilde)
– There is a journal hosted by an American
university about technology and how it can be
used to learn language. Can you find it?
site:edu intitle:technology ~language ~journal

7. Advanced Google Search Tips
• Task for ~
– There is a journal hosted by an American
university about technology and how it can be
used to learn language. Can you find it?
site:edu intitle:technology ~language
~journal

8. Advanced Google Search Tips
• allintitle:
– Find documents that have both “google” and
search in the title.
allintitle:google search

9. Advanced Google Search Tips
• Task for allintitle:
– I can find about 925 pages with “taiwan” and
“history” in the title. How many would I get if
I widen the search with ~ ?
intitle:Taiwan intitle:~history

10. Advanced Google Search Tips
• inurl:
– Find documents that mention the word
”google” in their url, and mention “search”
anywhere in the document (url or no).
inurl:google search

11. Advanced Google Search Tips
• Task 1 for inurl:
– Search Lionel Ritchie’s song “Say you
say me” in mp3.
inurl:mp3 “say you say me”

12. Advanced Google Search Tips
• Task 2 for inurl:
– Search the lyric of Lionel Ritchie’s song
“Say you say me” .
inurl:lirics “say you say me”

13. Advanced Google Search Tips
• allinurl:
=intitle:google intitle:search
– Search documents that have only “google” and
“search” in the url.
allinurl:google search

14. Advanced Google Search Tips
• Task for allinurl:
– Search a dictionary that will offer the definition and
origin of the Pandora’s Box.
allinurl:electronics pandora

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