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Terms b Browser b Search Engine

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Options b Internet Explorer b Firefox b Google Chrome b Apple - Safari

Searching the Internet

What is the best search tool?

Choose your search tool b Book b Movie Theatre b Journal Article b Shopping b Software b University Program b Dictionary, Terminology b Instructional Video (Amazon.com) & ERIC Ebay Amazon Yahoo Directory Wikipedia & Sunburst & United Streaming

Examples b

Dictionary b b b Reliability

Auto Info b NHTSA information on recalls, TSB’s, defects, etc b Vehicle fuel economy ratings b Vehicle safety ratings b National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration b Environmental vehicles ratings

Limiting The Search b Be specific... b How to use computers in teaching surfing? Computer applications in high school math teaching

and & or ignored by google California OR Denver California AND Denver expensive car + red chair Use the - sign to exclude disney -california -land -movie -tv

10 Keywords Limit b Google ignores “stop words” b a, about, an, and, are, as, at, be, by, from, how, i, in, is, it, of, on, or, that, the, this, to, we, what, when, where, which, with

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related: b will list web pages that are "similar" to a specified web page b related:

Wildcards b "don't ask country * ask" b “Isaac Newton discovered *”

File Type b "First amendment" filetype:ppt

b Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf) b Adobe PostScript (ps) b Lotus (wk1, wk2, wk3, wk4, wk5, wki, wks, wku) b Lotus WordPro (lwp) b MacWrite (mw) b Microsoft Excel (xls) b Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt) b Microsoft Word (doc) b Microsoft Works (wks, wps, wdb) b Microsoft Write (wri) b Rich Text Format (rtf) b Shockwave Flash (swf) b Text (ans, txt)

intitle:global warming b Intitle: Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the title. b allintitle: Google will restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the title.

Domain=Site psychology site:com psychology site:edu textbook site:

inurl: b Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the url

Calculator b (5+1)**2 b 3^20 b sqrt(16) sqrt(16)

Unit conversion b half a cup in teaspoons half a cup in teaspoons b two pounds in kilograms b 160 pounds * 4000 feet in Calories 160 pounds * 4000 feet in Calories

Currency Conversion b 150 British pounds b 100 Mexican pesos

Define b define: "noble gas“ b define: "democracy"

Area code b 562 b 714 b 818

phonebook: (714) b first name (or first initial), last name, city (state is optional) b first name (or first initial), last name, state b first name (or first initial), last name, area code b first name (or first initial), last name, zip code b phone number, including area code b last name, city, state b last name, zip code

Local search b Italian food 90025

Google ++ Blogger Google Calendar Desktop for Windows Google Docs Picasa SketchUp YouTube

AGoogle navigation bar BSearch field CSearch button DAdvanced search EPreferences FSearch statistics GContextual navigation HIntegrated results IPage title JText below the title KURL of result LSize MCached NSimilar pages OIndented result PMore results QPlus Box results RRelated search terms

Synonym search For instance, searching for ~ranch yields results relating to cattle, horses, and farms.

Weather b weather long beach

Time b time London

Spell Check b camputer

info b will present some information that Google has about that web page b info:

Order of Your Keywords b california movie b movie california

stocks  stocks: aapl msft macr

Package tracking b 1Z9999W

Movie showtimes b movies 90803

Airline Travel Info b american airlines 18

Patent number b Patent

Book Search (limited) b enter the name of the author or book title into the search box b Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"I'm Feeling Lucky" b takes you straight to the most relevant website that Google found b Rezaei csulb

Range Search b DVD player $50..$100 b kg truck b Willie Mays

cache: b Google will highlight those words within the cached document b cache: library

link b The query [link:] will list webpages that have links to the specified webpage. b link: b link:

Search Tips b /features.html /features.html