1. Tips to Help You Find the Most Relevant Information FAST Many of these tips will work for database searches too!

2. 1. Keep it simple! Every word counts Be short but descriptive The order of your words matters Use words that will appear on the web page Possible Searches: families in Iran family life in Iran women in Iran children in Iran Iranian families

3. 2. Some words/symbols (stop words) are not even searched! a and so for the to punctuation marks:. ?, ; : on where how de la single letters single digits

4. 3. Google is case insensitive! FAMILY LIFE IRAN

5. 4. Avoid using a question! Type: family life iran What is family life like in Iran?

6. 5. Use quotations to phrase search- to search for words together. ! “family life” Iran

7. More uses for quotations: Book title: Exact word search: “my life in iran” book “latino”

8. 6. Use a minus sign (-) to exclude! “family life” iran -food

9. For info about the bird, not football: falcons -football

10. 7. Google assumes the word and between words! women iran

11. 8. Use OR (in caps) to search for either one of several words! women OR children iran

12. 9. Find results in a specific domain! Use site:edu (or org, gov, net, mil). “family life” iran site:edu

13. 11. Find results in a specific format! Use filetype:ppt (doc, pdf) “family life” iran filetype:ppt

14. 12.Find out who links to a site to see if it is a credible source! link:www.cultureofiran.com/patriarchy.html Use link:pasteURL

15. If you want more…

16. You can also use the Advanced search page… at the bottom of your results page

17. The Advanced Search Page also gives you many options… Continued…

18. …in an easy format!