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Searching with Google. Most searches are case insensitive Search for French cuisine will bring up sites about ‘ French ’ and ‘ cuisine ’ Using quote marks will bring up information about the topic you want: “French cuisine”. Use a minus sign to remove topics you don’t want: - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Searching with Google
• Most searches are case insensitive• Search for French cuisine will bring up sites
about ‘French’ and ‘cuisine’• Using quote marks will bring up information
about the topic you want:
“French cuisine”
Use a minus sign to remove topics you don’t want:
“holiday-Spain-Japan-Germany”
- will exclude those destinations you don’t want
To find related topics use a tilde: ~So, to search for terms associated with money:
“~money”
This will bring up associated topics such as ‘gold’ and ‘currency’
Use the words OR (in capitals and no gaps):
“ducksORgeeseORswans”
This will bring up all three topics
Missing words
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with a * Such as:
“bridge over *waters”
Refine
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Time
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“time in New York”
The first line which appears will be the correct time.
Weather
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“weather in Paris”
You will get the correct result and a forecast for the next few days.
Currency
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“100NZD in USD”
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Quick conversions
“32C in F”
“32cm in inches”
“100US gallons in UK gallons”
If you want to know…
Enter:
“speed of light”
or
“pi”or
“periodic table”
Advanced search
Don’t forget to use the advanced search. You can scroll down and find this at the bottom of
the search page.
Defining
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“define:chicken”
Within a range
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“best books 2002..2007”
“cars 1970..1990”
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Page title
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“intitle”For example: searching for “camera” gives 2.7 billion results but “intitle:camera” gives 364,000remember to put a colon between the two words.
Text
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“intext:dogs“
File type
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“filetype:ppt”
“filetype:txt"
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or
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Try these search engines:
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www.searchcube.com
www.dogpile.com
www.thesearchenginelist.com
From:Sunday Star Times, 19th and 26th February, F12.
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