1. Googling to the Max

2. What Will be Covered? Synonym searching Google and punctuation Searching by title, site, domain and file type Searching by country Google Book and Google Scholar

3. Synonym Searching (~) Google will “think” of words with a similar meaning ~food matches recipes, nutrition, cooking ~facts matches information, statistics ~help matches guide, tutorial, FAQ, manual

4. Punctuation That is NOT Ignored Apostrophe (’): peoples, people’s and peoples’ are searched as different words Accent marks in foreign languages: elephant does not match éléphant Hyphen (-): off-campus retrieves off-campus, off campus, and offcampus Always supply the (-) to search any word that might be hyphenated

5. intitle: Words must occur in the official field in the heading of the page “polar bears” intitle:“global warming” OR intitle: “greenhouse effect” intitle:sarcophagus “king tut” “homework help” intitle:geometry

6. site: Limit to a site or domain (first part of the URL, before the first (/) site:memory.loc.gov lincoln "sheet music” site:noaa.gov "hurricane irene” site:gov.it pompeii site:it pompeii

7. Common Domains.com: Commercial organizations, unrestricted.net: Originally for network infrastructures, now unrestricted.org: Originally for organizations, now unrestricted.mobi (short for "mobile") is reserved for Web sites built for easy viewing on mobile devices.edu: Educational establishments of a number of countries.gov: Government entities at the federal, state, and local levels.mil: U.S. military

8. Country Codes “internet country codes” Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences.(two-letter country code)

9. inurl: Require terms to occur within the URL inurl:lincoln “sheet music” inurl:vietnam “agent orange” inurl:vietnam.vn “agent orange” inurl:sylviaplath “primary sources” inurl:worldwarii

10. filetype: HTML is the basic form of many common websites pdf: Adobe Portable document doc: Word document xls: Excel spreadsheet ppt: PowerPoint presentation

11. Examples of filetype: filetype:ppt death-rate "non-hodgkin's lymphoma" "united states” filetype:pdf china one-child policy filetype:ppt site:edu china one-child policy filetype:ppt site:edu.cn china one-child policy

12. Shortcuts Galore! Define:[word] Area Code: type 3 digit code Flight Tracking: type airline and flight number Maps: type an address Movies: type movies: [zip code] or movies: [city, state] Parcel Tracking for UPS, FedEx, USPS: type the number UPC Product Identification: type the code

13. Google Books Google Books works just like a normal web search, just put in a title, author, subject, or topic If a book is out of copyright, or if the publisher has given permission, you can preview (and sometimes even download) the book Easy-to-read reference pages tell you all about the book Find out where to buy or borrow the book http://books.google.com/

14. Google Scholar A simple way to search for scholarly literature, across subject areas Searches articles, theses, books, abstracts, and court opinions Provided by academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, and universities Generally an abstract Assists users in locating the complete document through your Library or the web http://scholar.google.com/

15. Fun Tools: Wayback Machine A digital time capsule created by the Internet Archive Organization Enables users to see “third dimensional” archived versions of web pages Many links of archived pages are still available for exploration http://wayback.archive.org/

16. Fun Tools: URL Shortener Long URLs are simply hard to pass along TinyURL Allows you to customize your shortened URL Google URL Shortener (or goo.gl) Google URL Shortener (or goo.gl) Allows URL creator to track activity, but not the ability to customize URL