Busquedas En Google

Google Searching Techniques
Jennie DeLucia/JD Consulting © Presentation Rochester Regional Library Council December 14, 2006

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Google Basic Operators
Use the plus sign (+) to force a search for an overly common word. Use the minus sign (- )to exclude a term from a search. No space follows these signs. To search for a phrase, supply the phrase surrounded bydouble quotes (" "). A period (.) serves as a single c aracter wildcard. - h An asterisk (*) represents any word—not the completion of a word, as is traditionally used

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Phrase searches
To be or not to be What do you think you will find with this search? Google will find matches to any of these words on the page- not necessarily the phrase ‘to be or not to be’ Tofind ‘phrases’ make sure you quote the phrase
“To be or not to be”

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Google’s Basic Boolean
AND by default and the OR modifier This means that if you do not add any modifiers to a search Google will search for all the of the words
I.e. snow mobile Honda “Rochester NY” Google will search for all of these words and phrase I.e. snow mobile OR Honda OR “Rochester NY”What do you think you will find and does OR need to be capitalized? I.e. snow mobile (Honda OR “Rochester NY”) Parenthesis acts as the OR I.e. snow mobile (snowmobile | “Rochester NY”) In addition to using OR you can use the ‘pipe’ symbol from programming

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Negation
A minus sign directly in front of a word or phrase will exclude if from the search
I.e. snowmobile snow blower –”Rochester NY” The minus sign must appear directly in from of the phrase or word Do now use a space or it will not work Do add a space though after the word that you are going to exclude

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Explicit Intrusion
Google will search for all your keywords in a search except for the ones that they considered too popular to be of any use The list of these‘stop words’ are the following
http://www.ranks.nl/tools/stopwords.html I, a, about, an, this, that, the, where, when to name a few

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Synonyms
The Google synonym operator is ‘~’
I.e. ~ape What will you get in return? Monkey, gorilla, and chimpanzee

Synonyms are bolded along with exact keyword matches on the results page so they are easy to spot

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Number range
The number range operator ‘..’ looks for results falling inside your specified numeric range
I.e. prada pumps size 5..6 I.e. digital camera 3..5 megapixel $800..$1000 It is KEY to always provide some sort of reference or clue as to the meaning of the range
I.e. $, size, kg, and so forth

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Number ranges
You can also use thenumber range syntax with just one number, making the minimum or maximum of your query
I.e. acres Montana land 500.. I.e. raincoat dog ..$30

Note: Google normally doesn’t recognize special characters like $, but because the $ sign was necessary for the number feature, you can use it in all sorts of searches Try these two searches to see the difference
‘yard sale’ bargains 10 ‘yard sale’ bargains$10

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Simple Searching and Feeling Lucky
Google decides which is the most relevant page for your search Is it reliable? Depends on your search ☺ Try searching ‘Washington’ and see where it takes you Try searching ‘president’ and see where it takes you

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Case Sensitivity
Google is NOT case sensitive So, if you search for Three,three, THREE, or ThrEE you will get the same results.

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Full-Word Wildcards *
Stemming is when you add a * or a ? at the end of a word to act as a wildcard
I.e. Searching for moon* will yield moons, moonlight, moonshot, etc.

Google DOES NOT support explicit stemming, BUT it implicitly stems for you For example, searching for dietary will yield results for...