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Search Tips
The document provides various tips for refining Google searches to find specific information more quickly. Techniques include using site-specific searches, link searches, and utilizing symbols for calculations. Additional suggestions for different scenarios, such as searching for book phrases or synonyms, are also included.
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- 1. Search Tips JulieStarr | evolvingnewsroom.co.nz
- 2. When you enterkeywords into Google, it searches web pages from across the world wide web. That’s great if you want a wide search that catches any page or document that contains those words “Flight of the Conchords”
- 3. But what ifyou want specific information and you’re in a hurry?
- 4. There are waysto make Google searches more specific.... and faster
- 5. Let’s say you’reresearching the Flight of the Conchords and you want to find a story that ran in the NZ Herald newspaper. You can search nzherald.co.nz from the Google search box site:
- 6. Use this syntaxto ask Google to search only nzherald.co.nz for “flight of the conchords” site: www.nzherald.co.nz “flight of the conchords”
- 7. Compare the resultsof these two searches. The search on the right immediately gives you results from nzherald.co.nz – and hopefully just what you were looking for “flight of the conchords” site: www.nzherald.co.nz “flight of the conchords”
- 8. If you wantedto know about a music download, you might search the Conchords’ MySpace page site: www.myspace.com“flight of the conchords”
- 9. You can alsosearch particular kinds of sites such as university websites (perhaps if you wanted to know whether there was any academic research into the Flight of the Conchords) site: .ac.nz
- 10. Or government websites site: .govt.nz site: .govt.nz “flight of the conchords”
- 11. You can quicklyfind websites that link to the one you’re interested in link:
- 12. In our example,the link search might help find fan clubs of the Flight of the Conchords link: www.flightoftheconchords.com
- 14. You can findwhat information Google has about a particular website using an info search info: www.flightoftheconchords.com
- 15. And a relatedsearch will list websites similar to the one you name related: www.flightoftheconchords.com
- 17. What if you’restuck for the first line of a book or a phrase you only half-remember?
- 18. You can findwebsites that refer specifically to a book book
- 19. Imagine you wantto know the opening line of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice book “pride and prejudice”
- 20. Which of thesetwo searches will be most helpful in finding the novel’s opening line? “pride and prejudice” book “pride and prejudice”
- 21. Forgotten how aphrase goes? Try using an asterisk in the spot where the missing word goes how now * cow
- 22. If you’re researchingbreast cancer and don’t want any dubious search results, try this... safesearch:
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- 24. Auto? Automobile? Truck?Dodge? Vintage? Classic? If you’re not sure what to call what you’re looking for...
- 25. ...try putting atilde (~) in front of your keyword. Google will look for ‘auto’ and for synonyms of ‘auto’ ~auto
- 26. Imagine you wantto upgrade your phone but you have a limited budget
- 27. Try typing thephone you want into the Google search box alongside a number range #...#
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- 30. Google is alsoa calculator
- 31. Use these symbolsfor common equations + - * /
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- 33. Percentage Raise toa power Old measure in new Equation % of ^ old in new 5*9+(sqrt 10)^3 25 % of 978 10 ^2 45 Celsius in Fahrenheit 5*9+(sqrt 10)^3= Here are some more
- 34. 25 % of978
- 35. 45 Celsius inFahrenheit
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- 37. There you are. A handful of search tips to help you work smarter and faster.
- 38. You can findmany more Google search tips on this website: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/134479?hl=en
- 39. The End JulieStarr | evolvingnewsroom.co.nz