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Google Search

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• How Google search works
• Keyword choice
• Read results page
• Side panels
• Search for content in …
• Operators
• Images
• Search Google for content from other countries

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‣ Don’t ask a question
‣ Think about the page you want to find
• Use terms you would expect to find
• Use phrases specific/peculiar to that topic
‣ Word order matters
‣ Let Google help
• Instant results
• Similar searches
• Related searches
Search strings

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Read the Results Page
Side
panel
Snippet
Page
Title
URL

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Cache
• Allows you to load previous version of the site (faster load
especially useful with slow connection)
Similar
• Loads sites which are similar

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Search for content in …

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Operators
Special instructions for the search engine …

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Force results to contain a certain term
intext:term

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Limit results to just one site
site:mashable.com .gov .edu .au .abs.gov.au

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Limit results to certain filetypes
filetype:pdf doc ppt txt xls

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Exclude terms
-term -”search term”

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Search for one term or another
term OR “search term”

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Search for conceptually related terms
~term ~”search term”

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Guarantee a search term in the page title
intitle:term

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Search by image
Use filters to find information.

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Similar sites and results

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Drag and drop image
from your desktop

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Searchsitesfromother
countriesandtranslate