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2. Google Fu Helping you go from Grasshopper To Practitioner (One day you too could be a Grand Master) Royce Mckie

3. Summary  Power Searching  Improve your Fu!  Operators  Basic, Advanced, Combinations  Tools  Scholar, Books, Etc  Image and Usage  Alerts!  As Much as we can fit in!

4. Basic Operators  Minus sign ( – ) to exclude  define: Useful for finding definitions of words, phrases, and acronyms. For example, [ define : peruse ] will give a definition of the word “peruse.” This also works for many phrases, [ define: Hobson’s choice ]  filetype: suffix Limits results to pages whose names end in suffix. The suffix is anything following the last period in the file name of the web page and can be many characters in length. [ search engine guidelines filetype :pdf ]  allintext: / intext:  Restricts results to those containing all the query terms you specify in the text of the page. For example, [ allintext : camping tent stove] will return only pages in which the words “camping” “tent” and “stove” appear in the text of the page. intext: will search only for the next term in the text of the page.  allintitle: / intitle: allinurl: / inurl:

5. Basic Operators  info : will gives some additional information about the specified web page. For instance, the query -- [ info :googleblog.blogspot.com ]  link:URL link :URL shows pages that point to that URL. For example, to find pages that point to rsc-scotlang.org home page you would search for [ link:rsc- scotland.org ]  Note that the link: operator does not return a complete list of all the links available. It simply returns a representative sample.  site: restricts your search results to the site or domain you specify. For example, [ penquins site:.aq ] will search for pages about penguins from web sites that have an AQ top-level domain name. (AQ is Antarctica, and is mostly research stations located there.) A query like [ accidents site :gov.uk ] will find pages about accidents within sites ending in the.gov.uk domain. You can specify a domain with or without a period.gov.uk or gov.uk

6. WILDCARD *  Wildcard * (Up to 4 words)  Mainly used for phrase matching  Can use more than 1 per query  Use to find pieces of text with surrounding text  Cannot perform single char * Google needs full words  How many * are in the * of *

7. Numeric Range  Two Dots  10..50 v Battery (synonym system)  “45.. Mpg” city car  1945..1955 Veterans accounts.  Can be used inside of a Phrase Search.  Usually placed before or after the main seach terms.

8. OR Operator  Allows for the use of Synonyms in a single search i.e. Rich OR Richard  Choose your Synonyms youself  Allows for Organisations names and Initials  One of the only traditional Operators left

9. AROUND  AROUND - All Caps  Matching words nearby with a Specified Radius  OR operator to apply synonyms  “JISC” OR “RSC-Scotland” AROUND(5) Conference

10. Related operator  Related:  Looks for pages that are similar to the submitted URL  Related topically and by word overlap as well as other complicated algorithm voodoo  Don’t go down the rabbit hole!  related:rsc-scotlang.org *Note: no WWW

11. Operator Combinations  Filetype:  In title:  OR  Site:  In url:  “term”  filetype:pdf site:nasa.gov apollo 1990..1991  filetype:pdf -site:nasa.gov apollo 1990..1991

12. Scholar  Provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.  Academic books, Journals, conference proceedings, Technical reports etc.  Instead of links you see Meta Data from the book or article.  Related articles and Citations 

13. Book Search  Over 20 Million books  Many Full view, Man in partial view (different copyright restrictions)  Advanced search: More POWER!  Lots of metadata  Grand Benefit to mankind? 

14. Creative Commons  Size, Colour, Aspect Ratio  Lets talk about Advanced  You can also search by “Usage Rights”  Remember to confirm the usage rights Google does its best but that doesn’t mean people don’t miss tag things. 

15. Verbatim and Double Quote  Control Google's Interpretation  No spell correction, Synonyms or Local results  Verbatim mode  Useful for entire phrases  The drout of march – Canterbury Tales Prologue 

16. Google Alerts  Danger Will Robinson?  Monitor an industry  Latest new on your Sports Team  Job Opportunities  Follow discussions on publications on a scholarly topic. (You can set up alerts for Google Scholar!) 

17. Reverse Dictionary  Tip of your tongue?  Related Search terms for vague areas  Helps you find it when you don’t know what it is.  Simple but powerful. 

18. Web History  SkyNet! Or Don’t Panic!  If you’re signed in Google records every search you make as part of your “Web History”  This means you can search your web history for the search results for a search term you performed last year…  Turn it on and Off 

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