1. Power searching with Google How to find almost anything on the Web

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

3. Google-specific options Advanced search – has all of the shortcuts that we’ll be covering today. Image search – allows a very specific type of search. Returns thumbnails so that you can see what you’re getting.

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5. Google Switches site:limits search to one site. Can be used if a site doesn’t have a built-in search engine. example: +“Sorghum rust” site:okstate.edu will return all pages containing “Sorghum rust” from okstate.edu

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

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

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

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

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

11. Google Switches inanchor:limits results to pages that contain the string in links on the page. example: inanchor:“boer goats” will return all pages that have links containing the phrase “boer goats”

12. Google Switches If 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.

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

14. Google Switches You can also build searches using the minus sign with a switch; for example: +sorghum site:tamu.edu –filetype:pdf will return all pages containing “sorghum” from tamu.edu that are not PDF files. Or, you could exclude tamu.edu: +sorghum –site:tamu.edu