This document provides examples of advanced search operators that can be used with Google search: - Filetype: limits searches to specific file formats like documents, PDFs, presentations, spreadsheets, and text files. - Asterisk (*) finds search terms with variations, like finding a person's middle name. - Tilde (~) excludes search terms, like finding a technology journal that does not include the word "language". - Allintitle: finds documents with all search terms in the title only. - Inurl: finds documents that mention search terms in the URL. - Allinurl: finds documents that have all search terms in the URL only.

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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