ISP

IP & URL

Browser

Terms

Browser Search Engine

Your Speed

USA vs. SK

California

Options

Internet Explorer Firefox Google Chrome Apple - Safari

Searching the Internet

What is the best search tool?

Choose your search tool

Book Movie Theatre Journal Article Shopping Software University Program Dictionary,

Terminology Instructional Video

• (Amazon.com)• http://www.blockbuster.com &• http://movies.aol.com/• ERIC• Ebay• Amazon• Yahoo Directory• Wikipedia & • http://www.thefreedictionary.com/• Sunburst & United Streaming

Examples

http://www.zillow.com

Dictionary

http://www.thefreedictionary.com http://www.m-w.com/

Reliability

Auto Info

http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/index.cfm• NHTSA information on recalls, TSB’s, defects,

etc http://www.fueleconomy.gov/

• Vehicle fuel economy ratings http://www.safercar.gov/

• Vehicle safety ratings http://www.nhtsa.gov/

• National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration

http://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles• Environmental vehicles ratings

Limiting The Search

Be specific ... How to use computers in

teaching surfing?

Computer applications in high school math teaching

and & or ignored by google

California OR Denver

California AND Denver

expensive car + red chair

Use the - sign to exclude

disney -california -land -movie -tv

10 Keywords Limit

Google ignores “stop words”

a, about, an, and, are, as, at, be, by, from, how, i, in, is, it, of, on, or, that, the, this, to, we, what, when, where, which, with

Search Tips

related:

will list web pages that are "similar" to a specified web page

related:www.starfalls.com

Wildcards

"don't ask country * ask" “Isaac Newton discovered *”

File Type

"First amendment" filetype:ppt

Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf) Adobe PostScript (ps) Lotus 1-2-3 (wk1, wk2, wk3, wk4, wk5, wki,

wks, wku) Lotus WordPro (lwp) MacWrite (mw) Microsoft Excel (xls) Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt) Microsoft Word (doc) Microsoft Works (wks, wps, wdb) Microsoft Write (wri) Rich Text Format (rtf) Shockwave Flash (swf) Text (ans, txt)

intitle:global warming

Intitle: Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the title.

allintitle: Google will restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the title.

Domain=Site

psychology site:com psychology site:edu

textbook site:www.csulb.edu

inurl:

Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the url

Calculator

(5+1)**2 3^20 sqrt(16)

Unit conversion

half a cup in teaspoons two pounds in kilograms 160 pounds * 4000 feet in Calories

Currency Conversion

150 British pounds 100 Mexican pesos

Define

define: "noble gas“ define: "democracy"

Area code

562 714 818

phonebook:(714) 389-0460

first name (or first initial), last name, city (state is optional)

first name (or first initial), last name, state

first name (or first initial), last name, area code

first name (or first initial), last name, zip code

phone number, including area code last name, city, state last name, zip code

Local search

Italian food 90025

Google ++

•Blogger

•Google Calendar

•Desktop for Windows

•Google Docs

•Picasa

•SketchUp

•YouTube

AGoogle navigation barBSearch fieldCSearch buttonDAdvanced searchEPreferencesFSearch statisticsGContextual navigation HIntegrated resultsIPage titleJText below the titleKURL of resultLSizeMCachedNSimilar pagesOIndented resultPMore resultsQPlus Box resultsRRelated search terms

Synonym search

For instance, searching for ~ranch yields results relating to cattle, horses, and farms.

Weather

weather long beach

Time

time London

Spell Check

camputer

info

will present some information that Google has about that web page

info:www.lbusd.k12.ca.us

Order of Your Keywords

california movie movie california

stocks

stocks: aapl msft macr

Package tracking

1Z9999W99999999999

Movie showtimes

movies 90803

Airline Travel Info

american airlines 18

Patent number

Patent 5123123

Book Search (limited)

enter the name of the author or book title into the search box

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"I'm Feeling Lucky"

takes you straight to the most relevant website that Google found

Rezaei csulb

Range Search

DVD player $50..$100 5000..10000 kg truck Willie Mays 1950..1960

cache:

Google will highlight those words within the cached document

cache:www.csulb.edu library

link

The query [link:] will list webpages that have links to the specified webpage.

link:www.csulb.edu link:www.lbusd.k12.ca.us

Search Tips

http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html