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Google Search Ninja Derrick Waddell
How do I find to what I really need when there are
91 million results?
Search for what you really need to find.
1. Don't ask questions.
Asking questions adds unnecessary words (articles, prepositions, etc.) and punctuation.
2. Use descriptive and web-friendly vocabulary.
Use words that are more likely to appear online. For example, searching for bouncing off the walls is less likely to yield good results if what you're really looking for is adhd
symptoms.
3. Be specific
The more specific your search, the more likely it is that you'll find what you need. The search phrase classic
literature will yield many more results than classic american literature or vonnegut short stories.
Making Search Specific
"quotations" O PERATORS
Use quotes to search for an exact word or set of words.
"quotations"
- minus
O PERATORS
Use quotes to search for an exact word or set of words.
Add a dash before a word to exclude all results that include that word.
O PERATORS
* asterisk
Use an asterisk within a search as a placeholder for any unknown terms.
~ tilde
O PERATORS
* asterisk
Use an asterisk within a search as a placeholder for any unknown terms.
Use a tilde before a word to search for that word as well as synonyms of that word.
~ tilde
... ellipsis
O PERATORS
* asterisk
Use a tilde before a word to search for that word as well as synonyms of that word.
Use an asterisk within a search as a placeholder for any unknown terms.
Separate numbers by three periods with no spaces to see results that contain
numbers in a given range.
site:O PERATORS
Include site: to search for information within a single website or within a specific
top-level domain like .org or .edu
site:
define:
O PERATORS
Include site: to search for information within a single website or within a specific
top-level domain like .org or .edu
Use define: to get search results for definitions of words.
site:
define:
related:
O PERATORS
Include site: to search for information within a single website or within a specific
top-level domain like .org or .edu
Use define: to get search results for definitions of words.
To search for web pages that have similar content to a given site, type related:
followed by the website address.
filetype:
PowerPoint
Word Document
Spreadsheet
ppt
doc
xls
O PERATORS
Use filetype: to get search results in a specific file format.
OPTIONS
Related Searches
OPTIONS
Reading LevelRelated Searches
OPTIONS
Reading LevelRelated Searches
Time
What else can Google do?
IMAGE
Image
BOOKS
Books
BOOKS
Books
SCHOLAR
Scholar
inches
feet
yards
miles
meters
cups
pints
quarts
gallons
liters
spoons
pounds
grams
KHDmDCM
currency
Unit Conversion
CALCULATOR
OTHER
RESOURCES
Much, much more!
•http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation/index.html
•http://www.google.com/insidesearch/tipstricks/index.html
•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3ao7QXMhC4
•http://www.google.com/help/features.html
•http://www.google.com/support/websearch/
Google Search Ninja
Derrick Waddell
www.derrickwaddell.com
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