Techniques that will allow you increase or reduce the number of your results.

1. ADVANCED SEARCH TECHNIQUES IN GOOGLE
BECOME A POWER USER

2. THE EASY WAY TO SEARCH GOOGLE IS TO ENTER
YOUR SEARCH TERMS ON THE GOOGLE HOME PAGE.
ADVANCED TECHNIQUES ALLOW YOU TO FOCUS YOUR
SEARCH AND FIND WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR.

3. THESE ARE THE TECHNIQUES WHICH
WILL BE COVERED IN THIS PRESENTATION:
1. Use quotation marks: “ “
2. Use a dash: - .
3. Use a tilde: ~
4. Use “site:”
5. Use two periods: ..
6. Use an asterisk: *
7. Use “related:”

4. 1. QUOTATION MARKS
“I have not yet begun to fight”
When you put a word or phrase in quotes, the results will only
include pages with the same words in the same order as the
ones inside the quotes.

5. All of your results will
contain the phrase “I
have not yet begun to
fight.”

6. 2. THE DASH
jaguar -car
When you use a dash before a word or site, it excludes
sites with that info from your results. This is useful for
words with multiple meanings, like Jaguar the car brand
and jaguar the animal.

7. CATS NOT CARS
jaguar -car

8. 3. THE TILDE ~
When you use a tilde ~ before a word, the results will
include sites with that word and sites with synonyms
for that word.
boating ~drunk

9. It has been said the word “drunk” has over 120
synonyms. When you search for “~drunk”, Google will
search for all of the different ways to say “drunk.”

10. 4. SITE:
When you use the search operator “site:” followed by
address of a web site, the results will be limited to those
pages found on that particular web site.
tennis site:espn.com

11. tennis site:espn.com
This search will list all of the pages on
espn.com that contain the word tennis.

12. 5. THE TWO PERIODS
When you separate numbers by two periods without
spaces, you see results that contain numbers in a
range.
tennis 1955..1960
camera $50..$100

13. A search for “tennis 1955..1960” would limit
your results to that time period.
Pancho Gonzales Althea Gibson
A search for camera $50..$100 would
give you results in that price range.

14. 6. THE ASTERISK *
Add an asterisk as a placeholder for
any unknown or wildcard terms.
“* pluribius unum”

15. A search in Google for “* pluribus unum” would give results with
“e pluribus unum” the motto that appears on US coins, but it would
also return results for:
“Me Pluribus Unum”
“Ex Pluribus Unum”
“Eggs Pluribus Unum”
“Bee Pluribus Unum.

16. 7. RELATED:
When you use the “related:” search operator, you can find
sites that are similar to one that you already know.
related:cnn.com
related:webmd.com

17. If you find a useful website, you can use
“related:” to help you find similar websites