Searching on the Internet Using Google and its tools Author: François FournierFrançois Fournier
Google Tools Translate News Alerts Finance Search! Definition “defineDefinition “define / define:” / define:” Definition “define/ define:” Calculator Unit/CurrencyUnit/Currency conversion conversion Unit/Currencyconversion Time Stocks Weather Airport Maps
Search engine ? Index Internet Search Stopwording Stemming Stopwording Results User
Searching, Essentials Terms Phrase Search No Case sensitivity Negative terms “-” Synonym search “~” Fill in the blank “*” OR operator “(” “)” “I’m feeling lucky” Related search
Searching, Intermediate Language search (advance search form) advance search formadvance search form Safesearch (Preferences) Preferences Range of number “[#]..[#]” [#]..[#] Related pages “related:” related:” Linked pages “link:” link:” Page information “info:” info:”
URL, address Protocol: Domain: en.wikipedia.org Page /wiki/Portal:Contents Domains, Webpage, URL, tech bits… Example: Page title Address Page content
Searching, Advanced Domain search “site:” site: Title search “allintitle:” / ”intitle:” Address search: “allinurl:” / “inurl:”
Results Results Source: A.Google navigation bar B.Search field C.Search button D.Advanced search E.Preferences F.Search statistics G.Top contextual navigation links H.Integrated results I.Page title J.Text below the title K.URL of result L.Size M.Cached N.Similar pages O.Indented result P.More results Q.Plus Box results R.Related search terms