This document provides tips for conducting effective searches on Google. It recommends choosing Google as the search engine and typing search terms rather than entire questions using key words. Search terms should be two or three words and exclude common words while including medical terminology for health searches. Phrases should be in quotes and similar concepts can be included using a tilde. Unwanted results can be excluded using a minus sign. The document outlines formatting search terms and operators to refine results.

1. Fundamentals of an effective Google search

2. * Choose a Search Engine:
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Title of the webpage
The snippet—the short description of the website
The URL—the web address of the website
Cached link—a link to an earlier version of the webpage

5. *
Type in search terms or
key words, NOT an entire
question.
Do not include unimportant
words like the, with, a and
similar words.

6. *
Question: Which countries
usually participate in the
Winter Olympics?
Search Terms:
Countries
Winter Olympics
Participating

7. *1. two or three key words will give you a
broader set of results
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*3.
Don’t add punctuation
Use web friendly words. If you are
searching for medical information, use
medical words.
*Example: use the word--Headache
*NOT “my head hurts”
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8. *
When you need to find the
words together, put the
phrase in quotes.
Example: “Big Easy”
(searching for the meaning of
this nickname for an
American city)

9. *
If you want to include search terms
that mean about the same thing as
a certain word, you add the tilde
Example: ~tutorial internet search
(Searching for guides, reference,
tutorials on internet searching)

10. *
When you want to leave out certain
results, you can do that by adding the
minus sign and then the word to your
search.
Example: dolphins -football
(When you want to search for Dolphins,
but NOT the football team)

11. *
http://www.thegeekstuff
.com/2009/06/expertisein-google-search/

12. * More to come about effective
Google Searching
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