This document provides instructions for using basic and advanced search functions on Google. It explains how to search for keywords, phrases, websites, file types, calculators, conversions, definitions, weather, and more. Search options include using special symbols like +, -, and ~ to include, exclude, or search for synonyms. Number, title, URL, and other search filters are also described.

1. How to GOOGLE…

2. Basic terminology
 Web-page : collection of electronic information.
 Website : collection of web-pages related to particular theme.
 Domain name : It is impossible to remember all the addresses of the website by using their IP
Number , domain name translates the web_url to IP_number.
 Search Engine : A program which search the contents from the web; search engine is having one
program called “spider” which moves around the web pick the contents and address(url) and
place in the huge index.
 Hit : The results against the search string is known as hits.

3. Basic Search
 Open a browser; type google.co.in in address bar and press enter.
 Search :
 Enter search string :
 Google Search button : It will show all results related to search.
 I’m feeling lucky : It will directly moves to the first web-page; that will be first in the list.
 Entering keyword ; exact keywords
eg_ 01: use “segate hard disk”
rather than “hard disk of segate”.
eg_ 02 : use “travel air”
rather than “travel by air”.

4. Language option
 Can choose number of languages from the list available in the google page.

5. Information page
 Gives the info on “terms and conditions” / “Advertising programme” and much
more…

6. Searching particular word in the string
 Add
+ for adding particular word in search (prefix symbol “+” without
adding space)
 eg 01 : segate +harddisk
 eg 02 : manu +mahajan

7. Excluding particular word in the string
 Exclude word :
 - for excluding particular word from the search
eg 01 : Manu –Mahajan
eg 02 : Segate -harddisk
eg 03 : Virus -computer

8. When we can’t decide
 First word OR Second Word OR Third word

9. Searching exact string
 “string we need to search”
 Using quotation mark on both sides of the string

10. Searching text in particular website/domain
 Keyword site:www.abc.co.in
 Keyword site:.in
 Keyword site:.edu
 Keyword -site:www.facebook.com
 “search string” site:www.Wikipedia.com

11. Searching with synonyms
 Use ~ (tilde) symbol
 ~car search for words and synonyms
 Specific search :
 ~car –bmw (search all cars and exclude bmw car)

12. Wild Characters
 Asterisk *
 Question mark ?

13. Number search
 Eg ; search between ages 5…10
 It will search for the ages between 5 to 10
 Eg : search between amount
 Dvd player Rs.100…Rs500
 Eg : search between number with exact keywords
 “book title” amounting Rs189…Rs543

14. Title search
 Allintitle : title
 Search all keywords with in titles.
 Eg : allintitle:dogcare

15. Title and Content search
 Intitle : harddisk

16. Searching within url/address.
 Allinurl:himachal
 Allinurl:himachal site:www.himachal.nic.in
 Allinurl: himachal site:.gov.in

17. Searching within url and content
 Inurl:himachal
 Inurl:himachal site:himachal.nic.in
 Inurl:”himachal paradise” “hhh” site:himachaltourism.in

18. Searching using file format
 Filetype:pdf
 “Programming in C” filetype:pdf
 C++ filetype:pptx

19. Information regarding particular website
 Info:www.facebook.com

20. Cache website
 Webpages available with google search engine; the actual pages may be modified
.
 Cache:www.hipashimla.nic.in

21. Image/map search
 Image:baby
 Image:baby source:life
 Map:delhi

22. Calculator
 124+767
 Tan(34)
 Sin(45)+cos(30)

23. Conversion
 Inch in cm
 7 inch in cm
 7.1feet in cm
 41 in binary
 16 eur in inr

24. Definitions
 Define:against
 Define:”Rabindranath tagore”

25. Time
 Local time in san francisco

26. Weather
 Weather delhi

27. Music/Movies
 Music:”love”
 Film:don
 Showtimes delhi

28. Search for flights
 Del mum (Delhi to Mumbai)
 BA 142 (flight number)

29. Birthday/birthplace
 Birthday of tagore
 Birthplace of tagore

30. Stocks
 Stock:Wipro

31. Location
 Location of argentina
 Where is Ghana
 Flag of India
 Map India
 Highest point in Himachal
 Population Australia
 Capital of India
 GDP Belgium

32. Earth specifications
 R_earth : radius of earth
 M_earth : Mass of planet