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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

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• 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”

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Use a minus sign to remove topics you don’t want:

“holiday-Spain-Japan-Germany”

- will exclude those destinations you don’t want

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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’

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Use the words OR (in capitals and no gaps):

“ducksORgeeseORswans”

This will bring up all three topics

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Missing words

If you can’t remember a missing word replace it

with a * Such as:

“bridge over *waters”

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Refine

Don’t forget to refine your search using:• images• maps• videos• news• shopping

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Time

To find the correct time somewhere else:

“time in New York”

The first line which appears will be the correct time.

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Weather

Just type in what you want:

“weather in Paris”

You will get the correct result and a forecast for the next few days.

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Currency

Just type in:

“100NZD in USD”

This will convert $NZ100 into $US

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Quick conversions

“32C in F”

“32cm in inches”

“100US gallons in UK gallons”

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If you want to know…

Enter:

“speed of light”

or

“pi”or

“periodic table”

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Advanced search

Don’t forget to use the advanced search. You can scroll down and find this at the bottom of

the search page.

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Defining

Define words – find out what words mean.

“define:chicken”

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Within a range

To find something within a range of dates put 2 full stops between them:

“best books 2002..2007”

“cars 1970..1990”

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If you want to locate a ready-made PowerPoint then state your topic and put ppt after it:

“Romeo and Juliet ppt”

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Page title

To search for page title try:

“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.

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Text

Use the same techniques for text:

“intext:dogs“

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File type

To find a specific type:

“filetype:pdf”

“filetype:ppt”

“filetype:txt"

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Unlock

To unlock a site add an extra letter or dot.

https://

or

-------.com.

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Example

If you want to find a pdf from a government department relating to GST between 2011-2012 try a

single search like this:

“site:govt.nz filetype:pdf intitle:gst 2011..2012”

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Try these search engines:

www.sweetsearch.com

www.searchcube.com

www.dogpile.com

www.thesearchenginelist.com

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From:Sunday Star Times, 19th and 26th February, F12.