Power searching with GoogleHow to find almost anything on the Web

Search Term Modifers+strengthens the requirement that the word appear in the search results-removes all instances of the word from the search resultsallows specifying multi-term stringsOR allows finding pages which contain one of two words~ allows searching for a term and its synonyms

Google-specific optionsAdvanced search has all of the shortcuts that well be covering today.Image search allows a very specific type of search. Returns thumbnails so that you can see what youre getting.

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Google Switchessite:limits search to one site. Can be used if a site doesnt have a built-in search engine. example:+Sorghum rust site:okstate.eduwill return all pages containing Sorghum rust from okstate.edu

Google SwitchesLink:URL searches for pages that link to the specified URL.example:link:countyext.okstate.edu returns all pages that link to countyext.okstate.edu

Google Switchesfiletype:limits search to one type of file - .doc, .pdf, .jpg and so on.example:+Sorghum rust filetype:pdfwill return all pages containing Sorghum rust that are PDF files.

Google Switchesinurl:limits results to pages that contain the string in their URLs (or website addresses).example:inurl:Sorghumwill return all pages containing Sorghum in the URL; for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sorghum.html

Google Switchesintitle:limits results to pages that contain the string in the page title.example:intitle:Sorghumwill return all pages containing Sorghum in the title, but not those that only have sorghum in the text or URL.

Google Switchesintext:limits results to pages that contain the string in the page itself.example:intext:Sorghumwill return all pages containing Sorghum in the text, but not those that only have sorghum in the title or URL.

Google Switchesinanchor:limits results to pages that contain the string in links on the page. example:inanchor:boer goatswill return all pages that have links containing the phrase boer goats

Google SwitchesIf you are using multiple search terms, you can prefix all of the in- switches with all; for example, allintext:rust sorghum wheat will return all pages with those three terms appearing in the text of the page.

Google SwitchesAll of these switches can be combined; it is possible to build searches like this:inurl:sorghum site:tamu.edu filetype:pdfThis returns all pages from tamu.edu that both have sorghum in the URL and are PDFs.

Google SwitchesYou can also build searches using the minus sign with a switch; for example:+sorghum site:tamu.edu filetype:pdfwill return all pages containing sorghum from tamu.edu that are not PDF files. Or, you could exclude tamu.edu:+sorghum site:tamu.edu