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Advanced Google
Becoming a Power Googler
How Google Works
PageRank: The number of pages link
to any given page. “Importance” of the
linking page matters too
“Sophisticated text-matching
techniques”: Match not only number
of times term(s) appear in page but
also “all aspects of the page’s
content”
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Essentials of Google Search I
Choosing search terms: choose search
terms wisely -- more terms (up to 10)
producer narrower results; order will affect
search results
Automatic “and” queries: all terms are
searched
Exclusion of common words: in order to
include words such as “the” being
searched place a “+” sign in front of it
Stemming: Google searches on variations
of the word, e.g. diet, dieting, dietary
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Essentials of Google Search II
Phrase searches: place phrases between
quotation marks
Negative terms: since many words in
English have more that one meaning, e.g.
bat the animal, bat the baseball equipment,
placing a negative sign in front of a term (–
baseball) will help narrow your search for
the animal
I’m Feeling Lucky: takes you to “the most
relevant website … found for your query”
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Search Results Page I
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Search Results Page II
“SMCU” search
Top links
Google search
button
Advanced search
Search field
Preferences
Statistics bar
Tip
OneBox results
Page title
Text below the title
URL of result
Size
Cached
Similar pages
Indented results
More results
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Setting Preferences
Search preferences
SafeSearch filtering: can be done in general
or by search
Language options: generally set to English
but great to change for ESL and language
classes; interface language (fun) and search
language may be set separately
Number of results: generally set to 10 for
speed but can be set for up to 100
New results window: if you want another
window to come up with results change this
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Google Advanced Search
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Advanced Search Tips I
I try and use advanced search for all
searching and encourage my kids to
do so also
Some advantages:
You can do exactly the same search you
do on “naked” Google – just use the top
search box since “all of the words” is
what Google generally searches for
You can do a whole lot more!
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Advanced Search Tips II
With AS you can search only for
pages:
by exact phrase (without using quotes)
with at least one of the words entered
(same as using the “OR” operator
That don’t contain certain words (same
as the “-” operator
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Advanced Search Tips III
You can also search only for pages:
Written in a certain language
Created in a certain file format
That have been updated within a certain
period of time
That contain certain numbers within their
range
Within a certain domain or website
That don’t contain “adult” material
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Google Cheat Sheet
All of the previous “advanced”
operations and a lot more can be
done from Google.com if you know
and use the Google Cheat Sheet
For example: “+” before a word will find
the word even if its automatically
excluded
“~” before a word will find synonyms
Two numbers separated by two periods
will find results within a given range
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More Googles I
Above the general search box in Google
are “top links”: Web – Images – Groups –
News – Froogle – Local – more >>
Clicking on one of these will take you a
specific Google page where you can
search for pictures, groups of users, news
stories, consumer goods, and local
businesses
It can really get interesting if you click on
“more >>”!
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More Google II
Lets look at a few
of the Google
Services
And a few of the
Google Tools
Directory
Maps
Print
Scholar
University Search
Web Search
Features
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Blogger
GoogleEarth
Translate
Any Questions?
I hope you found this presentation
helpful
You can find all of these materials
online at Google.com
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