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Google Search
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• How Google search works• Keyword choice• Read results page• Side panels• Search for content in …• Operators • Images• Search Google for content from other countries
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‣ Don’t ask a question
‣ Think about the page you want to find
• Use terms you would expect to find
• Use phrases specific/peculiar to that topic
‣ Word order matters
‣ Let Google help
• Instant results
• Similar searches
• Related searches
Search strings
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Read the Results Page
Side panel
Snippet
Page Title
URL
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Click arrow beside
URL
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Cache• Allows you to load previous version of the site
(faster load especially useful with slow connection)
Similar• Loads sites which are similar
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Search for content in …
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Operators
Special instructions for the search engine …
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Force results to contain a certain termintext:term
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F/COM
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Limit results to just one sitesite:mashable.com .gov .edu .au .abs.gov.au
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Limit results to certain filetypesfiletype:pdf doc ppt txt xls
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Exclude terms-term -”search term”
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Search for one term or anotherterm OR “search term”
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Search for conceptually related terms~term ~”search term”
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Guarantee a search term in the page titleintitle:term
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Search by imageUse filters to find information.
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Similar sites and results
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Drag and drop image from your desktop
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