CHEATSHEET INTERNET RESEARCH © 2012 Henk van Ess henk@vaness.nl http://forreporters.com/henkvaness Twitter: @henkvaness Linkedin: nl.linkedin.com/in/searchbistro Interested in a workshop? Call +31 33-7508747 2012 What: Example Details Use it to 1. Quotation marks "Albert Einstein, born on" Predict language Predict an answer 2. Asterix "Albert Einstein, born on * * ,1879" Replaces full words Find words between words 3. Filetype http://www.voelspriet.nl/googledocs.htm PDF/DOC/PPT and more Search for documents 4. Minus sign river phoenix -"river phoenix" Get rid of what you hate -site.com or –“….” is allowed 5. Find the title allintitle: songtext Alanis Morisette Search title document Find docs with certain titles 6. Search Site: site: edu or site:nero.com Search one source only Overrides search engine source 7. What? define: adhd or “adhd is” Explains something Get rid of non relevant sources 8. Why? "whales strand because" “Because” = why question Predict the answer 9. When? Custom range f.e 1-1-2000 to 1-1-2001 Click “Show Search tools” Find specific publication date 10. Not exact enough Verbatim Click “Show Search tools” Overrules personalization 11. Numbers range Ipad “300…500 euro” or “1961…1966” Powerful with “…” Find a cheap iPad. Or years. 12. Publication date javascript:alert(document.lastModified) Type this in URL field If any, it shows pub. date 13. Check owner site http://www.domaintools.com Look for REGISTRANT (Historical) owners of sites 14. Check site In Google: info:(site.com) Check for LINKS Who refers to the source? 15. Error 404 Google Cache* or www.archive.org Your time machine See longer reader

More search engines: Adress Details Use it as Bing www.bing.com From Microsoft Alternative for Google Twitter http://twitter.com/ - !/search-advanced Advanced search On geo, date & time Social Media http://www.topsy.com Or www.icerocket.com Search people Clustersearch http://www.exalead.com/search Has a lot of filters Alternative for Google Nicknames http://www.spokeo.com Search avatars Search people Facebook http://facebook.eccar.org/ Search Facebook What did users like? Blogs & social http://www.socialmention.com Has alert by email Watch it happening Filtersearch, use site: (…..) .aero 2001 Aerospace .edu 1995 United States educational .gov 1995 United States government .int 1998 Organizations established by international treaties between governments .jobs 2005 International community of human resource managers .mil 1995 United States military Strategy 1. Find a source you trust. Only if you can’t find one, use Google 2. Remember a search engine of a trusted source is not always as good as you hope. Search again with (term)site(site.com) in Google 3. Don’t ask questions but predict the answer. Don’t type bio Putin but “Putin has * children”